This paper describes a corpus-based study addressing the spatial positioning of hands in Italian Sign Language (LIS). The corpus includes LIS sentences extracted from TV news concerning weather forecasting. The results shows that spatial relations depend on contextual and geographical features. These results have been exploited in the implementation of a planning module that generates a sequence of commands that drive the generator of a virtual character. The planner is part of an Italian to LIS translation system whose goal is the automatic translation of weather forecast program.

Where should I put my hands? Planning hand location in sign languages

RUGGERI, ALICE;BATTAGLINO, Cristina;GERACI, CARLO;RADICIONI, DANIELE PAOLO;MAZZEI, Alessandro;DAMIANO, Rossana;LESMO, Leonardo
2011-01-01

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This paper describes a corpus-based study addressing the spatial positioning of hands in Italian Sign Language (LIS). The corpus includes LIS sentences extracted from TV news concerning weather forecasting. The results shows that spatial relations depend on contextual and geographical features. These results have been exploited in the implementation of a planning module that generates a sequence of commands that drive the generator of a virtual character. The planner is part of an Italian to LIS translation system whose goal is the automatic translation of weather forecast program.
2011
Workshop on Computational Models of Spatial Language Interpretation and Generation (CoSLI-2)
Boston
July 2011
Proc. of "Workshop on Computational Models of Spatial Language Interpretation and Generation (CoSLI-2)"
CEUR
759
24
31
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-759/
Alice Ruggeri ; Cristina Battaglino ; Gabriele Tiotto ; Carlo Geraci ; Daniele Radicioni ; Alessandro Mazzei ; Rossana Damiano ; Leonardo Lesmo...espandi
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