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In this paper, we describe a software module for the animation of a virtual interpreter that translates from Italian to the Italian Sign Language (LIS).
The system we describe takes a ”synthetic” approach to the generation of the sign language, by composing and parametrizing pre-captured and hand-animated signs, to adapt them to the context in which they occur.
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Lombardo, V., Nunnari, F., Damiano, R. (2010). A Virtual Interpreter for the Italian Sign Language. In: Allbeck, J., Badler, N., Bickmore, T., Pelachaud, C., Safonova, A. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6356. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_22
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