ERIC Number: EJ751852
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Aug
Pages: 21
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0360-1315
Educational Resources and Implementation of a Greek Sign Language Synthesis Architecture
Karpouzis, K.; Caridakis, G.; Fotinea, S.-E.; Efthimiou, E.
Computers and Education, v49 n1 p54-74 Aug 2007
In this paper, we present how creation and dynamic synthesis of linguistic resources of Greek Sign Language (GSL) may serve to support development and provide content to an educational multitask platform for the teaching of GSL in early elementary school classes. The presented system utilizes standard virtual character (VC) animation technologies for the synthesis of sign sequences/streams, exploiting digital linguistic resources of both lexicon and grammar of GSL. Input to the system is written Greek text, which is transformed into GSL and animated on screen. To achieve this, a syntactic parser decodes the structural patterns of written Greek and matches them into equivalent patterns of GSL, which are then signed by a VC. The adopted notation system for the representation of GSL phonology incorporated in the system's lexical knowledge database, is Hamburg Notation System (HamNoSys). For the implementation of the virtual signer tool, the definition of the VC follows the h-anim standard and is implemented in a web browser using a standard VRML plug-in.
Descriptors: Phonology, Educational Resources, Greek, Sign Language, Elementary Schools, Foreign Countries, Animation, Grammar, Coding, Information Technology, Computer Mediated Communication
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Greece

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