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Visually querying the e-lis ontology: a proposal

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CHI EA '08: CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1358628.1358897

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The e-LIS dictionary includes the first web dictionary from Italian sign language to Italian. Albeit innovative, its interface makes it a dictionary for experts of Italian sign language and of its sign composition rules. In this paper, we present a novel visual interface for the e-LIS dictionary. Our interface visualises the e-LIS ontology, which encodes the composition rules of signs of the dictionary. Thus our interface supports the dictionary users in querying by transparently browsing the ontology. The prototype of our interface was designed with the User Centred Design Methodology.

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CHI EA '08: CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2008

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ISBN:9781605580128

DOI:10.1145/1358628

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Microsoft Research, USA
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Arnie Lund
Microsoft, USA
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Microsoft Research, USA

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