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From:  Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa
Date:  Thu Apr 5, 2001  4:37 pm
Subject:  Re: sign language processing and computational sign language processing


Themis,

Thanks for the message...

> I refer
> mostly to connectionist modelling and also other approaches that
> incorporate evidence from cognitive science about language
> organization in the brain for producing models for language
> processing.

...and for the explanation.

> On the other hand, SignWriting is easy to learn and use mostly
> because it is iconographic. This fact implies a possible
> correspondence of SW to cognitive aspects of sign language processing in
> the brain, such as the visual-perception, understanding, production and
> acquisition mechanisms. Could a computational model exploit
> SignWriter's iconicity to get closer to cognition-based aspects of sign
> language realization? How? For example could the extraction of the
> phonological features from the .sgn format be based on a model for sign
> visual perception process?

Good questions... :-)

All the best,

Antônio Carlos


  Replies Author Date
4745 Re: sign language processing and computational si Stefan Woehrmann2 Fri  4/6/2001
4746 Re(2): sign language processing and computational Ingvild Roald Fri  4/6/2001

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