Reading the Signs

On Reading Signs

On Reading Signs; Some Differences between Us and The Others On Reading Signs

If there are certain kinds of signs that an animal cannot learn to interpret, that might be for any of a number of reasons. It might be, first, because the animal cannot discriminate the signs from one another. For example, although human babies learn to discriminate human speech sounds according to the phonological structures of their native languages very easily, it may be that few if any oth...

Reading the Signs of Death: A Theological Analysis

Determinations of death made by physicians are clinical judgments, but nonetheless judgments involving metaphysical realities, the passing of persons from this life. Current controversy about the validity of neurological criteria for determining death suggests the need for careful study of anthropological reasoning as well as medical data. This article proposes charity and wisdom as a theologic...

Signs for Developing Reading Sign Language and Reading Development in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children

Reading development is supported by strong language skills, not least in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. Regional Special Needs Schools (RSNS) in Sweden have a bilingual curriculum, that is, DHH pupils at these schools learn Swedish Sign Language and written and/or spoken Swedish. The work in the present thesis investigates reading development in DHH children who attend these schools a...

A formulaic approach to translation at the post office: reading the signs

TESSA is an interactive translation system designed to support transactions between a post office clerk and a deaf customer. The system translates the clerk’s speech into British Sign Language (BSL), displayed on a screen, using a specially-developed avatar (virtual human). TESSA is a context-constrained exemplification of one of two basic approaches to machine translation, neither of which can...