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EvilPort2/Sign-Language: Sign Language v0.1

EvilPort, Cclauss, Subhrajyoti Sen · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2018

Initial release

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Sign Language To Sign Language Translator

S Sharath, S Suraj, A. M. et al. · Procedia Computer Science · 2025

Sign languages differ between countries, regions, and even communities within the same country, leading to communication barriers when interacting with deaf individuals from different linguistic backgrounds. This paper introduces a novel approach for sign language-to-sign language translation, enabling seamless communication across diverse deaf communities. The proposed model translates source sign language images to avatar sign images of the target language by utilizing separate key point estimation models for recognizing static sign elements that include handshape, orientation and position, achieving an accuracy of 88%. The research work uses HamNoSys as the intermediate representation to capture the essential elements of signs in the translation process. The HamNoSys sequence migration task is accomplished using the Seq2Seq model with a BLEU-1 score of 0.85. The target HamNoSys sequences are converted to machine-readable format (SiGML) to render the 3D avatar sign images. Experiments are done using static signs from three distinct sign languages.

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Sign Language

John Glucker, Ivor Ludlam · Scripta classica Israelica · 2020

The need for a more detailed account concerning the first two centuries of rhetorical theory is best illustrated by an example: we present here the textual evidence for two common terms denoting evidence, namely τεκμήριον and σημεῖον. Despite their widespread use in fifth and fourth century Athens, there seems to have been some confusion over their relative roles. While τεκμήριον is fairly regularly used to mean past evidence for a present claim or state, σημεῖον ranges in meaning from a present indication for a past act or state to something very similar to τεκμήριον. We trace, so far as is possible, three possible sources for the apparent confusion: an early rhetorical source (perhaps even the legendary Tisias or Corax himself/themselves) might explain the relatively uniform use of τεκμήριον, while confusion over σημεῖον may be due to usage in early Hippocratic medical treatises as opposed to a clear and logical distinction between τεκμήριον and σημεῖον by Antiphon, a distinction ignored by his younger contemporaries (e.g. Andocides), but strictly adhered to by a later orator, Lycurgus.

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Sign language

A. Lau · University of Hawaii Press eBooks · 2000

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Sign language

Richard Tipping (21281411) · Figshare · 2025

Works exhibited: Wrong Day Go Back, Exit Strategy, No Understanding, Notice. The Seymour Theatre Centre Foyers will be transformed into an alternate universe where obeying signs may become incredibly confusing. In Richard Tipping’s world, Stop may become Go, the sign on the door may say Come in We’re Closed and a Roundabout may be your Exit sign. Legalise Acne Now!

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Sign Language

Diane Lillo‐Martin · Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science · 2005

Abstract Practitioners of sign languages use movements of their hands, face, and body for communicating what language speakers convey using their mouth, tongue, and vocal chords. The natural sign languages of Deaf communities have the properties of human language, including grammatical structure at the phonological, morphological, and syntactic levels.

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Sign language

Trevor Langley · Practical Pre-School · 2010

What you are doing every day, possibly without realising it, is ‘communicating through total communication’. This means using all available clues, particularly visual ones, to add meaning to what you are saying. You count on your fingers and hold them up to represent numbers. You show praise, encouragement, approval and disapproval with gestures. You ask for quiet and calming down with your hands. You point to indicate places and people; you convey shapes, size, direction, ways of moving, distance and a whole host of meanings just through your hands. Add to this the emotion on your face and the tone of your voice and you are giving the children valuable language support. This is of particular benefit to children from poor language backgrounds or for whom English is not their first language.

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Sign Language

Ursula Bellugi, Edward S. Klima · Elsevier eBooks · 2001

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Sign Language

Graham, John · Iowa State University Digital Repository (Iowa State University) · 1971

WHO—CHIEF? Naw, he just sets in that there rocker and stares at the street. Come out of the hills about two years back and got a job as a tourist attraction setting in front of Riley's here. Don't haf ta do nuttin'—ain't never heard him talk—prob'ly don't know English."

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Sign language

Plaisant, David, Oropallo, Gabriele · London Met Repository (London Metropolitan University) · 2014

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Sign-Language

Dibakar Saha · Figshare · 2018

A very simple CNN project.

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Sign Language

Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

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SIGN LANGUAGE

., R.Dhanagopal, ., B.Manivasakam · Open Journal Systems (Global Science & Technology Forum) · 2014

Usually a human interaction focuses on the sound world, where the communication is based on the speech and in which most information is conveyed via voice and other sounds. However, there are people who live in the world of silence. For them nothing can be heard, as they are hearing impaired. For all of them a voice communication is impossible or troublesome. Hence they have invented a sign language. The sign language consists of a grammar and a vocabulary. Usually the grammar is significantly different to the spoken and written languages. Whereas the vocabulary is composed of many hand gestures and hand movements which convey the most important information, but which are supported by the whole body movement and facial expressions. Considering the differences in the way the hearing impaired observe the world, they encounter huge difficulties while learning and using the writing language, which is so common in daily communication. Since this sign language cannot be understand by others, we are in need of systems which can understand sign language. The existing systems handle that task not appropriate and accurate. We introduce the concept of a chat for the sign language based communication, which overcomes the deficiencies of the existing approaches. In the current system there is an action sensor available, this sensor has pressure switches when any pressure is given then the pressure switch will be closed and the signal is given to microcontroller. The microcontroller senses the signal coming from the pressure switch and it understands the switch position and it sends the command signal to the computer through RS232 cable. The RS232 cable is used to convert microcontroller understandable signal to computer understandable signal. As soon as the computer gets the signal the program written in the computer will detect the particular word and it will be played at the same instant. Thatâ€™s how the sign language is converted in to voice language.

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Sign Language

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Sign-Language

Dibakar Saha · Open MIND · 2018

A very simple CNN project.

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Sign Language

Spina, Davide · The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong) · 2014

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