29 December 2023
The three-year SignON project has now finished.
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What sets SignON apart is that it is one of the first projects to actively engage in a co-creation process with the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.
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The extensive research conducted within SignON raised a lot of new questions and ideas
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After three years of hard work behind the scenes on our SignON application and service, we have gained better insights into the technical challenges.
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From the beginning, the SignON project focused on two complementary areas (i) the technical side for the development of a mobile application
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For three years, consortium members of the SignON project have gained valuable insights through collaboration with deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals and communities
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On Wednesday 29th November, representatives from two research and innovation projects—EASIER (Intelligent Automatic Sign Language Translation), SignON (Sign Language Translation Mobile Application and Open Communications Framework)
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23 November 2023
We are thrilled to announce that SignON has been honored with the Engaged Research of the Year Award at the
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15 November 2023
We held our final consortium meeting in the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao on the 14th & 15th of November
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29 September 2023
SignON had a strong presence at the START event in TCD on the 29th of September 2023. START is part of European Researchers’ Night, a Europe-wide public engagement event,
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We asked deaf artists to share their artistic perspectives on sign language technology, and we were treated to four captivating videos
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23 September 2023
On Saturday, September 23rd, 2023, the entire world celebrated the International Day of Sign Languages.
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We invite you to take part in our exciting speech and sign language recordings project.
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Ashley from the Netherlands had a question about sign language technology. We appreciate Ashley's concern and agree that deaf perspectives are crucial in this research topic.
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25 May 2023
On the 25th May, some members of the SignON consortium went to the EUD General Assembly in Stockholm.
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23 February 2023
Check out this great group photo above from our two-day consortium meeting on the 22nd and 23rd of February in Dublin.
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16 January 2023
As we approach the end of 2022, the SignON project has almost competed its second year.
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28 December 2022
On the 28th of November, the SignON consortium organised a round table at Nederlands Gebarencentrum in Amersfoort (The Netherlands).
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30 November 2022
In our video serie “The SignON Forum” we invite everyone to share their questions, concerns, comments, or ideas with us
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25 November 2022
The Irish co-creation workshop was held over two days, the first event was held in person in Deaf Village Ireland on the 12th of November
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24 November 2022
Ruth Holmes (University College Dublin) took us through the UCD research on Signer Independent Sign Language Recognition
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16 November 2022
For Science Week in Ireland, on the 16th of November, SignON researchers led by Shaun O'Boyle staged a Shakespeare event
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27 October 2022
Caro Brosens (VGTC) shared some insight into describing lexicon of sign languages at our October 19, 2022 internal seminar
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30 September 2022
At the invitation of the non-Attached Member of the European Parliament, Ádám Kósa, the SignON project had the opportunity
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7 September 2022
On July 1st we had our last internal seminar before the summer break. This time Shaun O'Boyle (DCU) updated us on his work within the SignON project
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27 June 2022
A name sign is given by deaf people to a person, organisation, company, event, brand or place
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15 June 2022
After several local face-to-face meetings in recent months, the entire SignON consortium gathered for the first time on the 15th and 16th June in Tilburg University (The Netherlands).
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6 June 2022
On the 28th of March we organised our 4th internal seminar. Rachel Moiselle (Trinity College Dublin) updated us on Depiction in Irish Sign Language.
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16 May 2022
On the 16th May 2022 we explained our SignON project at the Interparliamentary Committe of Taalunie in the Flemish Parliament.
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11 April 2022
Maartje De Meulder is a deaf scholar and is currently a lecturer and senior researcher at HU - University of Applied Sciences Utrecht.
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9 April 2022
On the 28th of March we organised our third internal seminar, this time presented by Prof. dr. Myriam Vermeerbergen (KU Leuven) and Prof Lorraine Leeson (Trinity College Dublin)
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22 March 2022
The SignON Consortium strongly believes in maintaining a constant dialogue with our target audiences.
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30 December 2021
As we approach the end of 2021, the SignON Project has almost completed its first year of three.
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27 December 2021
The European Union of the Deaf (EUD) ensures that the SignON project is closely connected...
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23 December 2021
On the 16th of December, Maartje De Meulder, deaf scholar and currently a lecturer...
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8 December 2021
On November 20, VGTC organised a lecture and workshop about "language police or not?"...
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25 November 2021
Did you also see the news about the sign language avatar for the 2022 winter Olympics in...
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7 November 2021
On November 4, Jorn Rijckaert, SignOn's communications manager, gave a lecture...
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27 September 2021
The SignON team are driven by listening to what the (potential) users want...
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20 September 2021
VGTC (the Flemish Sign Language Centre) is the centre of knowledge and expertise...
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9 July 2021
On Friday 9th July 2021 the 31st Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands...
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20 June 2021
We are happy to announce the First International Workshop on Automatic Translation...
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28 May 2021
Our communication team had a productive meeting with the communication...
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21 January 2021
The SignON project officially started on the 1st January 2021. The kick-off meeting...
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30 November 2020
The SignON project has received Horizon 2020 funding of €5.6M. SignON is...
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