November 18, 2022
Professor Lorraine Leeson presented on the topic “Sign of the Times - Technology and Sign Languages”
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At the Seventh International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology
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At the 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, the SignON consortium gave three presentations.
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The 32nd Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands has a special track on Language technology for Dutch Sign Language (NGT)
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At the 27th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB2022)
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At the 23rd annual meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation, the presentation
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EUD’s Project Officer Davy Van Landuyt gave a presentation about the SignON project at the General Assembly of the EUD
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Tim Van de Cruys (KU Leuven) gave an overview of the SignON project in the Network of Interdisciplinary Translation Studies in the Netherlands and Flanders.
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Frank Fowley and Anthony Ventresque gave a presentation about their publication on Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition...
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Dr Irene Murtagh (TU Dublin), Prof. Lorraine Leeson (TCD) and Rachel Moiselle (TCD) co-presented on the topic of “Sign Languages and Language Technology:
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On November 20, VGTC organised a lecture and workshop about "language police or not?". Hundreds of Flemish signers gathered for this.
Read MoreNovember 15, 2021
LEAD ME stands for “Leading Platform for European Citizens, Industries, Academia and Policymakers in Media Accessibility”. The (online) Winter Training School was about “Media Accessibility Training: Sign Language and Subtitling for the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing”.
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SignON had a booth at the project expo on the first day of META-FORUM, the international conference series on powerful and innovative Language Technologies for the multilingual information society.
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The workshop is part of the Translation Europe-project of the European Commission, and was about different topics such as automatic translation/interpretation and various applications of language technology.
Read MoreSeptember 28, 2021
At the invitation of the non-Attached Member of the European Parliament, Ádám Kósa, the SignON project had the opportunity to organise a workshop in the European Parliament
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The SignON project was presented at an online conference: the XXXVII International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing.
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Santiago Egea Gómez, Euan McGill and Horacio Saggion gave a presentation about their publication on Text to Sign Gloss Translation in the 14th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora
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According to the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) over 70 million people are deaf and communicate primarily via a sign language (SL). Currently, human interpreters are the main medium for sign-to-verbal...
Read MoreJuly 9, 2021
The 31st Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN 31) is now set to be held in Ghent on Friday, July 9th 2021. A team from SignON will present a poster titled “The SignON project: a Sign Language Translation Framework”.
Read MoreJune 25, 2021
At a workshop titled “ChaLearn LAP Sign Language Recognition in the Wild” at the conference for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), UGent partners presented work on sign language recognition models in the context of a machine learning challenge.
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Catia Cucchiarini and Jorn Rijckaert explained the SignON Project at the Interparliamentary Committee of Taalunie in the Flemish Parliament
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