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Issues in Dynamic Generation of Sign Language Utterances for a Web 2.0 Virtual Signer

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2009)

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Introduction

In this paper, we present our current study on the design of a virtual agent able to express sentences in Sign Language (SL), so-called ‘Virtual Signer’, in the context of interactive web-based applications.

Up now, little work has been carried out on web-based virtual signers. As for current research on virtual signers in standalone applications, it relies on two main approaches: Pre-synthesized animations based on motion capture [1] or rotoscoping [2], and generated animations [3], with very little interactivity. Our aim is to provide the virtual signer with richer interacting capabilities with the data contained in the web page.

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  1. LIMSI-CNRS, Campus d’Orsay bat 508, BP 133, F-91403, Orsay cx, France

    Annelies Braffort, Jean-Paul Sansonnet & Cyril Verrecchia

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  1. Annelies Braffort
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  1. Human Media Interaction (HMI), University of Twente, EWI (Zilverling), P.O.Box 217, 7500, Enschede, AE, The Netherlands

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  2. Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Campus D3.2, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

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  3. Human Media Interaction Group,Dept. of Computer Science, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500, Enschede, AE, The Netherlands

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  4. Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents, CADIA, School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Kringlan 1, 103, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson

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Braffort, A., Sansonnet, JP., Verrecchia, C. (2009). Issues in Dynamic Generation of Sign Language Utterances for a Web 2.0 Virtual Signer. In: Ruttkay, Z., Kipp, M., Nijholt, A., Vilhjálmsson, H.H. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5773. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04380-2_53

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