Design and Evaluation of an American Sign Language Generator

We describe the implementation and evaluation of a prototype American Sign Language (ASL) generation component that produces animations of ASL classifier predicates, some frequent and complex spatial phenomena in ASL that no previous generation system has produced. We discuss some challenges in evaluating ASL systems and present the results of a user-based evaluation study of our system.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Unknown venue

• Publication date

  2007-06-29

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3115/1610065.1610072
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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