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Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages
From SignWriting to Image Processing. Information techniques and their implications for teaching, documentation and communication.
Workshop on the occasion of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004 Lisbon, 30 May 2004

The Workshop Programme
Sunday, May 30th 2004 9:00 – 9:30 In vitedtalks Thomas Hanke HamNoSys – Representing Sign Language Data in Language Resources and Language Processing Contexts Carol Neidle, Robert G. Lee Corpus Annotation, SignStream Richard Gleaves, Valerie Sutton SignWriter 10:30 – 11:00 11:00 – 12:30 11:00 – 11:30 Break

9:30 – 10:00 10:00 – 10:30

Ora l p r e s en t at i o n s ( I s e s s i o n ) Galini Sapountzaki, Eleni Efthimiou, CostasKarpouzis, Vassilis Kourbetis Open-ended Resources in Greek Sign Language: Development of an eLearning Platform Onno Crasborn, Els van der Kooij, Daan Broeder, Hennie Brugman Sharing sign language corpora online: proposals for transcription and metadata categories Matt Huenerfauth Spatial Representation of Classifier Predicates for Machine Translation into American Sign Language 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch11:30 – 12:00

12:00 – 12:30

14:00 – 14:30

Ora l p r e s en t a t i o n s ( I I s e s s i o n ) Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro, Juliano Baldez de Freitas A Sign Matching Technique to Support Searches in Sign Language Texts Angel Herrero A Practical Writing System for Sign Languages Maria Papadogiorgaki, Nikos Grammalidis, Nikos Sarris, Michael G. Strintzis Synthesis ofVirtual Reality Animations from SWML using MPEG-4 Body Animation Parameters 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

14:30 – 15:00 15:00 – 15:30

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16:00 – 18:00

Poster s ess io n Elen i Ef th i mio u , Anna Vacalopoulou, Stavroula Evita Fotinea, Gregory Steinhauer Multipurpose Design and Creation of GSL Dictionaries Chiara Vettori, Oliver Streiter, Judith Knapp From Computer Assisted LanguageLearning (CALL) to Sign Language Processing: the Design of E-LIS, an Electronic Bilingual Dictionary of Italian Sign Language and Italian Rubén Nogueira, Jose M. Martínez 19th Century Signs in the Online Spanish Sign Language Library: the Historical Dictionary Project Elana Ochse A language via two others: learning English through LIS Ingvild Roald Making Dictionaries of Technical Signs: from Paper andGlue through SWDOS to SignBank Steven Aerts, Bart Braem, Katrien Van Mulders, Kristof De Weerdt Searching SignWriting Signs Inge Zwitserlood, Doeko Hekstra Sign Printing System – SignPS Boris Lenseigne, Frédérick Gianni, Patrice Dalle A New Gesture Representation for Sign Language Analysis Jose L. Hernandez – Rebollar Phonetic Model for Automatic Recognition of Hand Gestures Daniel Thomas UlrichNoelpp Development of a New „SignWriter“ Program Ralph Elliott, John Glauert, Vince Jennings, Richard Kennaway An Overview of the SiGML Notation and SiGMLSigning Software System Jan Bungeroth, Hermann Ney Statistical Sign Language Translation Guylhem Aznar, Patrice Dalle Computer Support for SignWriting Written Form of Sign Language Yiqiang Chen, Wen Gao, Changshui Yang, Dalong Jiang, Cunbao GeChinese Sign Language Synthesis and Its Applications Paola Laterza, Claudio Baj Progetto e-LIS@
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Workshop Organisers
- Oliver Streiter, Research Area “Language and Law” - European Academy of Bolzano, Italy - Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Escola de Informática - Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Brazil - Christian Retoré, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, France - ChiaraVettori, Research Area “Language and Law” - European Academy of Bolzano, Italy

Workshop Programme Committee
- Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Escola de Informática - Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Brazil - Carol Neidle, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures - Boston University, Boston MA - Chiara Vettori, Research Area “Language and Law” - European Academy of Bolzano, Italy...