---------------------------------------------------------------Abstract-----------------------------------------------------------For many deaf people, sign language is the principle means of communication. Normal people around such cases end up facing problems while communicating. This system prototype that is able to automatically recognize sign language to help normal people to communicate m...

Localization of sign language production and comprehension in deaf people has been described as similar to that of spoken language aphasia. However, sign language employs a visuospatial modality through visual information. We present the first report of a deaf signer who showed substantial sign language aphasia with severe impairment in word production due to a left occipital lesion. This case ...

There is a core body of knowledge, experience, and skills integral to facilitating auditory, speech, and spoken language development when working with the general population of students who are deaf and hard of hearing. There are additional issues, strategies, and challenges inherent in speech habilitation/rehabilitation practices essential to the population of deaf and hard of hearing students...

This paper explores discourse features of Australian Sign Language (Auslan) and the need for sign language interpreting students to acquire an understanding of, and skills in, a range of discourse genres in Auslan in order to effectively carry out the work required in their profession. Discourse features of spoken English are outlined and compared with those of signed languages, and an overview...

This paper gives a short overview of the Hamburg Notation System for Sign Languages (HamNoSys) and describes its application areas in language resources for sign languages and in sign language processing.

To what extent does human cognition influence the structure of human language? Recent experiments using elicited pantomime suggest that the prevalence of Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order across the world's languages may arise in part because SOV order is most compatible with how we conceptually represent transitive events (Goldin-Meadow, So, Özyürek, & Mylander, 2008). However, this raises the q...

The presented article explains an innovating method to process a computer-aided segmentation of sign language sentences. After having tracked the signers hands in a video, the traitment consists in detecting motion attributes such as repetition or symmetries. Those observations are taken into account to process a gesture segmentation. We also discuss about the evaluation of such a segmentation.

1. MOTIVATION There is strong support for single sign-on, using methods such as Facebook, Google, or Amazon for providing thirdparty sign-on to websites [3]. While it is practical to the user, it carries a large risk: a compromise of the account credentials can lead to a severe impact on the websites the user authenticates to, and unwanted linkages between intentionally separated social roles, ...

A survey of reports of sign order from 42 sign languages leads to a handful of generalizations. Two accounts emerge, one amodal and the other modal. We argue that universal pressures are at work with respect to some generalizations, but that pressure from the visual modality is at work with respect to others. Together, these pressures conspire to make all sign languages order their major consti...

For a portable digital device, power consumption is crucial under the constraint of limited battery life. Switching activity in CMOS circuits contributes to a significant amount of power consumption. Efforts are made in every design level to help hardware reduce the switching activity required to execute the program. In this paper, we study the problem of reducing power consumption arising from...