Efthimiou, Eleni; Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita; Goulas, Theodoros; Vacalopoulou, Anna; Vasilaki, Kiriaki; Athanasia–Lida, Dimou Sign language technologies and the critical role of SL resources in view of future internet accessibility services (Journal Article) Technologies, 7 (1), pp. 18, 2019. (Abstract | Links | BibTeX) @article{efthimiou2019sign,
title = {Sign language technologies and the critical role of SL resources in view of future internet accessibility services},
author = { Eleni Efthimiou and Stavroula-Evita Fotinea and Theodoros Goulas and Anna Vacalopoulou and Kiriaki Vasilaki and Dimou Athanasia–Lida},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/7/1/18},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
journal = {Technologies},
volume = {7},
number = {1},
pages = {18},
publisher = {Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute},
abstract = {In this paper, we touch upon the requirement for accessibility via Sign Language as regards dynamic composition and exchange of new content in the context of natural language-based human interaction, and also the accessibility of web services and electronic content in written text by deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. In this framework, one key issue remains the option for composition of signed “text”, along with the ability for the reuse of pre-existing signed “text” by exploiting basic editing facilities similar to those available for written text that serve vocal language representation. An equally critical related issue is accessibility of vocal language text by born or early deaf signers, as well as the use of web-based facilities via Sign Language-supported interfaces, taking into account that the majority of native signers present limited reading skills. It is, thus, demonstrated how Sign Language technologies and resources may be integrated in human-centered applications, enabling web services and content accessibility in the education and an everyday communication context, in order to facilitate integration of signer populations in a societal environment that is strongly defined by smart life style conditions. This potential is also demonstrated by end-user-evaluation results.},
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In this paper, we touch upon the requirement for accessibility via Sign Language as regards dynamic composition and exchange of new content in the context of natural language-based human interaction, and also the accessibility of web services and electronic content in written text by deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. In this framework, one key issue remains the option for composition of signed “text”, along with the ability for the reuse of pre-existing signed “text” by exploiting basic editing facilities similar to those available for written text that serve vocal language representation. An equally critical related issue is accessibility of vocal language text by born or early deaf signers, as well as the use of web-based facilities via Sign Language-supported interfaces, taking into account that the majority of native signers present limited reading skills. It is, thus, demonstrated how Sign Language technologies and resources may be integrated in human-centered applications, enabling web services and content accessibility in the education and an everyday communication context, in order to facilitate integration of signer populations in a societal environment that is strongly defined by smart life style conditions. This potential is also demonstrated by end-user-evaluation results. |
Vacalopoulou, Anna; Efthimiou, Eleni; Vasilaki, Kiriaki Multimodal corpus lexicography: compiling a corpus-based bilingual Modern Greek-Greek Sign Language dictionary (Conference) Proceedings of the XVIII EURALEX International Congress: Lexicography in Global Contexts (EURALEX 2018), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2018. (Links | BibTeX) @conference{vacalopoulou2018multimodal,
title = {Multimodal corpus lexicography: compiling a corpus-based bilingual Modern Greek-Greek Sign Language dictionary},
author = {Anna Vacalopoulou and Eleni Efthimiou and Kiriaki Vasilaki},
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year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the XVIII EURALEX International Congress: Lexicography in Global Contexts (EURALEX 2018), Ljubljana, Slovenia},
pages = {17--21},
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Efthimiou, Eleni; Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita; Vacalopoulou, Anna; Goulas, Theodoros; Vasilaki, Kiriaki; Athanasia–Lida, Dimou Sign language technologies in view of future internet accessibility services (Conference) Proceedings of the 11th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference, ACM 2018. (Links | BibTeX) @conference{efthimiou2018sign,
title = {Sign language technologies in view of future internet accessibility services},
author = {Eleni Efthimiou and Stavroula-Evita Fotinea and Anna Vacalopoulou and Theodoros Goulas and Kiriaki Vasilaki and Dimou Athanasia–Lida},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3197768.3201546},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference},
pages = {495--501},
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Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita; Efthimiou, Eleni; Koutsombogera, Maria; Athanasia–Lida, Dimou; Goulas, Theodoros; Vasilaki, Kiriaki Multimodal Resources for Human-Robot Communication Modelling (Conference) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2016, ISBN: 978-2-9517408-9-1. (Abstract | Links | BibTeX) @conference{MOB-LREC2016,
title = {Multimodal Resources for Human-Robot Communication Modelling},
author = {Stavroula-Evita Fotinea and Eleni Efthimiou and Maria Koutsombogera and Dimou Athanasia–Lida and Theodoros Goulas and Kiriaki Vasilaki},
editor = {N. Calzolari and K. Choukri and T. Declerck and S. Goggi and M. Grobelnik and B. Maegaard and J. Mariani and H. Mazo and A. Moreno and J. Odijk and Stelios Piperidis},
url = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/452_Paper.pdf},
isbn = {978-2-9517408-9-1},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-05-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016)},
pages = {3455-3460},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
abstract = {This paper reports on work related to the modelling of Human-Robot Communication on the basis of multimodal and multisensory human behaviour analysis. A primary focus in this framework of analysis is the definition of semantics of human actions in interaction, their capture and their representation in terms of behavioural patterns that, in turn, feed a multimodal human-robot communication system. Semantic analysis encompasses both oral and sign languages, as well as both verbal and non-verbal communicative signals to achieve an effective, natural interaction between elderly users with slight walking and cognitive inability and an assistive robotic platform.},
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This paper reports on work related to the modelling of Human-Robot Communication on the basis of multimodal and multisensory human behaviour analysis. A primary focus in this framework of analysis is the definition of semantics of human actions in interaction, their capture and their representation in terms of behavioural patterns that, in turn, feed a multimodal human-robot communication system. Semantic analysis encompasses both oral and sign languages, as well as both verbal and non-verbal communicative signals to achieve an effective, natural interaction between elderly users with slight walking and cognitive inability and an assistive robotic platform. |
Athanasia–Lida, Dimou; Goulas, Theodoros; Efthimiou, Eleni; Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita; Karioris, Panagiotis; Pissaris, M; Korakakis, D; Vasilaki, Kiriaki Creation of a multipurpose sign language lexical resource: The GSL lexicon database (Conference) Proceedings of Sixth Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2014. (Abstract | Links | BibTeX) @conference{dimou2014creation,
title = {Creation of a multipurpose sign language lexical resource: The GSL lexicon database},
author = {Dimou Athanasia–Lida and Theodoros Goulas and Eleni Efthimiou and Stavroula-Evita Fotinea and Panagiotis Karioris and M Pissaris and D Korakakis and Kiriaki Vasilaki},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/lrec/pubs/14022.html},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of Sixth Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)},
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abstract = {The GSL lexicon database is the first extensive database of Greek Sign Language (GSL) signs, created on the basis of knowledge derived from the linguistic analysis of natural signersí data. It incorporates a lemma list that currently includes approximately 6,000 entries and is intended to reach a total number of 10,000 entries within the next two years. The design of the database allows for classification of signs on the basis of their articulation features as regards both manual and non-manual elements. The adopted information management schema accompanying each entry provides for retrieval according to a variety of linguistic properties. In parallel, annotation of the full set of sign articulation features feeds more natural performance of synthetic signing engines and more effective treatment of sign language (SL) data in the framework of sign recognition and natural language processing.
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The GSL lexicon database is the first extensive database of Greek Sign Language (GSL) signs, created on the basis of knowledge derived from the linguistic analysis of natural signersí data. It incorporates a lemma list that currently includes approximately 6,000 entries and is intended to reach a total number of 10,000 entries within the next two years. The design of the database allows for classification of signs on the basis of their articulation features as regards both manual and non-manual elements. The adopted information management schema accompanying each entry provides for retrieval according to a variety of linguistic properties. In parallel, annotation of the full set of sign articulation features feeds more natural performance of synthetic signing engines and more effective treatment of sign language (SL) data in the framework of sign recognition and natural language processing.
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