The paper deals with the problems of improving the functioning of the Thetos system, intended for translation of Polish texts into the Polish sign language. Experimental identification and translation of emotion into sign language are discussed. The area of studies is the linguistic part of the Thetos system.

Hand gesture recognition has been a major challenge during the recent years. Many of the hand gesture recognition systems however, have been restricted to a few number of possible movements. Some applications such as gesture recognition in understanding sign languages, include a large number of classes and need an automatic learning method for extracting the features of each class. An important...

This article presents receptive and expressive American Sign Language skills of 85 students, 6 through 22 years of age at a residential school for the deaf using the American Sign Language Receptive Skills Test and the Ozcaliskan Motion Stimuli. Results are presented by ages and indicate that students' receptive skills increased with age and were still developing across this age range. Students...

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As the field of ICT standardization has changed from a relatively static, monolithic environment into a very dynamic field in the last two decades, many formal standardization bodies, fora, consortia and other types of standards setting organizations (SSOs) have emerged. These SSOs have often competed against each other for the same application areas. To a large degree, these changes reflect de...

Natural language--spoken and signed--is a multichannel phenomenon, involving facial and body expression, and voice and visual intonation that is often used in the service of a social urge to communicate meaning. Given that iconicity seems easier and less abstract than making arbitrary connections between sound and meaning, iconicity and gesture have often been invoked in the origin of language ...