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Structure of the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) for Computational Tools: Citizenship and Social Inclusion

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This work presents a computational model (XML) of the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), based on its phonology. The model was used to create a sample of representative signs to aid the recording of a base of videos whose aim is to support the development of tools to support genuine social inclusion of the deaf.

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  1. UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil

    Cayley Guimaraes, Diego R. Antunes, Daniela de F. Guilhermino Trindade, Rafaella A. Lopes da Silva & Laura Sanchez Garcia

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. The American College of Greece, Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. University of Oviedo, Spain

    Patricia Ordonez de Pablos

  3. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Adrian Ziderman

  4. De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

    Alan Roulstone

  5. Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media, Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Hermann Maurer

  6. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA

    Jonathan B. Imber

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Guimaraes, C., Antunes, D.R., de F. Guilhermino Trindade, D., da Silva, R.A.L., Garcia, L.S. (2010). Structure of the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) for Computational Tools: Citizenship and Social Inclusion. In: Lytras, M.D., Ordonez de Pablos, P., Ziderman, A., Roulstone, A., Maurer, H., Imber, J.B. (eds) Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society. WSKS 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16324-1_41

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