Professor
Ingvild Roald in front of poster presentation
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Sign
Processing Workshop
Lisbon, May 30, 2004
MAKING
DICTIONARIES OF TECHNICAL SIGNS:
FROM PAPER AND GLUE THROUGH SW-DOS TO SIGNBANK
by
dr. philos.Ingvild Roald
Abstract
Teaching
mathematics and physics in upper secondary school
for the deaf since 1975, this author has felt
the need to collect signs for the various concepts.
In the beginning illustration of signs were
pasted into a booklet. Then SignWriting appeared,
and signs were hand-written and later typed
into the booklet. With the 3.1 version of SignWriter,
the dictionary program appeared, and several
thematic dictionaries were made. With the new
SignBank program, there are new opportunities,
and I can fill in what I before just had to
code. Last year a Fulbright research fellow
and myself were collecting signs for mathematics,
and these are transferred into a SignBank file.
From that file various ways of sorting and analysing
is possible. Here these various stages are presented,
with a focus especially on the SignBank and
the opportunities and limitations that are present
in this program.
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SignWriting in Norway
Norwegian
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