“Interactive American Sign Language Dictionary”

  • ©Jose L. Hernandez-Rebollar and Erick Mende

  • ©Jose L. Hernandez-Rebollar and Erick Mende

  • ©Jose L. Hernandez-Rebollar and Erick Mende

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    Interactive American Sign Language Dictionary

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    An Interactive American Sign Language (ASL) to English dictionary, the first to the best of our knowledge, is presented in this work. By means of a novel gestural interface users input the unknown sign and get the equivalent English word in an interactive way. Instrumentation and methods discussed here can be adapted to other applications whit multidimensional inputs.

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    Hernandez, J. Phonetic Model for Automatic Recognition of Hand Gestures. In Proceedings of the 4th. International Conference on Language Resources. Lisbon, Portugal 2004
    Stokoe, W. Sign Language Structure: an Outline of the visual communication system of the American Deaf. Studies in Linguistics. Occasional papers 8. Linstok Press, Silver Sring MD, 1960.


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