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From:
Daniela Remião de Macedo Date: Tue Feb 2, 1999 8:02 pm Subject: Sign Dic | |
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Hello Everyone! I am glad to see that so much people are interested about Sign Dic. I will try to answer your questions about it - I hope my English help me! :-) Sign Dic is not a dictionary, but a computer program that can be used to create dictionaries and it can also be used for any signed language in the world, the same way as SignWriting system. From now on I want to say that when I started to do this work I didn't know amost anything about Sign Language. Was when I see the SignWriting system that I had the idea to create a computational tool to organize signs based on this system. In the dictionaries generated with Sign Dic, the signs can be sequentially organized in two different ways: in accordance with their gestual features, through the description of their internal structures, or in accordance with the alphabetical ordinance of their respective meanings in a spoken language. The internal structure of the sign is the description of its gestual features. This structure is divided into 4 others substructures: 1) Hand 2) Hand Movement 3) Face 4) Other Body Parts (shoulder, torso, head) Each one of this substructures have a sequencial list of parameters. The first parameter is the hand group. So the signs are firstly organized into one of the ten hand groups of Sign Writing. That's why the Sign Dic Screen 1 posted on the web show a bar on the top with the ten hand groups. Because that's the first step to search for a sign in the dictionaries. So depending on the value of each parameter the sign is organized in the dictionary. Valerie, could you please post also on the web the other Sign Dic screens (Hand, HandM, Face, Body). These screens show the images representing each one of the internal structure parameters and I think that everyone can have a better idea about the internal structure of the signs. Below, I discribe the screens 1 and 2: On left are the options availables on the system, where the user can create a new dictionary or open one, access the current dictionary information, include or delete signs, include new icons to represent new possible values for a parameter of the signs internal structure (for example, if a new icon to represent a new hand configuration is included to Sign Writing, it can be also included in Sign Dic by the user), access the help file and about Sign Dic option. On right is the search area where there are three scroll boxes that allow the user to search the information by the sign writing, by an image or by the word written in oral language. On the center are the sign information, as its translation to the oral language, its grammatical classification, a image, its writing in sign language, its internal structure discribing the sign, a animation that show better how is the sign movement. On the top there is a bar that show how is the signs sequencial organization. The Screen 1 show the group bar, that indicates that the signs are organized by their internal structure. The user can change this organization by clicking the 'A B C' button. Then the signs will be organized by their writing in the oral language, as showed on Screen 2. Thanks for the messages you have sent me about Sign Dic. If someone have more questions about it, feel free to ask me. Dani ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniela Remião de Macedo https://www.inf.pucrs.br/~drmacedo Faculdade de Informática - PUCRS - BRASIL Mestrado em Informática - Sistemas de Computação ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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