Sign languages: Contribution to neurolinguistics from cross-modal research

Neurolinguistics of bilingualism and the teaching of languages

Multi-Modal Control: From Motion Description Languages to Optimal Control

Neurolinguistics

Neurolinguistics studies the relation of language processes to the brain. It is well established that the critical brain regions for language include the perisylvian association cortex, lateralized to the left in most right-handed individuals. It is becoming increasingly clear that other brain regions are part of one or more complex systems that support language operations. Evidence regarding t...

A hybrid formalism to parse Sign Languages

Sign Language (SL) linguistic is dependent on the expensive task of annotating. Some automation is already available for low-level information (eg. body part tracking) and the lexical level has shown significant progresses. The syntactic level lacks annotated corpora as well as complete and consistent models. This article presents a solution for the automatic annotation of SL syntactic elements...

Cross Modal Comprehension in ZARDOZ An English to Sign-Language Translation System

The sign languages used by deaf communities around the world represent a linguistic challenge that natural language researchers have only recently begun to take up. Zardoz is a system which tackles the cross-modal machine-translation problem, translating speech and text into animated sign language. Native sign !languages, such as ISL (Ireland), BSL (Britain) and ASL (U.S.A.) have evolved in dea...