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Journal articles on the topic "Sign Language Understanding"

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Vogler, Christian, and Siome Goldenstein. "Toward computational understanding of sign language." Technology and Disability 20, no. 2 (July 8, 2008): 109–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/tad-2008-20206.

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Aloysius, Neena, and M. Geetha. "Understanding vision-based continuous sign language recognition." Multimedia Tools and Applications 79, no. 31-32 (May 17, 2020): 22177–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-08961-z.

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Cobley, Paul. "Human Understanding." American Journal of Semiotics 34, no. 1 (2018): 17–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ajs201862038.

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John Deely’s contributions to the philosophy of signs have transformed semiotics. Key to this development has been Deely’s concern not just with human-produced texts but, instead, with human understanding amidst the context of semiosis in general, including realms beyond that of the human. Underpinning this concern, in turn, is his triad of sign, object and thing: A definite re-orientation of the theory of the sign. In this article it will be suggested that the triad, exemplifying suprasubjectivity and the primacy of relation, not only establishes the ground for rethinking common understandings of subjectivity, intersubjectivity and objectivity, it also provides a basis for re-conceptualizing other areas of social thought: In particular, how humans exist within their environment, both in terms of “affordances”—which generally facilitate human action—and “ideology”—which generally constrain it to the exigencies of determined circumstances. Deely’s realism, in its fundament of the sign/object/thing triad, demonstrates how mind-independent being is omnipresent, even when occluded in the objective order; it uncovers the “truth” of ideology and the Gegengefuge or ‘counter-structure’ of affordances.
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Williams, Joshua, and Sharlene D. Newman. "Modality-Independent Effects of Phonological Neighborhood Structure on Initial L2 Sign Language Learning." Research in Language 13, no. 2 (June 30, 2015): 198–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rela-2015-0022.

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The goal of the present study was to characterize how neighborhood structure in sign language influences lexical sign acquisition in order to extend our understanding of how the lexicon influences lexical acquisition in both sign and spoken languages. A referentmatching lexical sign learning paradigm was administered to a group of 29 hearing sign language learners in order to create a sign lexicon. The lexicon was constructed based on exposures to signs that resided in either sparse or dense handshape and location neighborhoods. The results of the current study indicated that during the creation of the lexicon signs that resided in sparse neighborhoods were learned better than signs that resided in dense neighborhoods. This pattern of results is similar to what is seen in child first language acquisition of spoken language. Therefore, despite differences in child first language and adult second language acquisition, these results contribute to a growing body of literature that implicates the phonological features that structure of the lexicon is influential in initial stages of lexical acquisition for both spoken and sign languages. This is the first study that uses an innovated lexicon-construction methodology to explore interactions between phonology and the lexicon in L2 acquisition of sign language.
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Vermeerbergen, Myriam, Mieke Van Herreweghe, Philemon Akach, and Emily Matabane. "Constituent order in Flemish Sign Language (VGT) and South African Sign Language (SASL)." Sign Language and Linguistics 10, no. 1 (October 16, 2007): 23–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sll.10.1.04ver.

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This paper reports on a comparison of word order issues, and more specifically on the order of the verb and its arguments, in two unrelated sign languages: South African Sign Language and Flemish Sign Language. The study comprises the first part of a larger project in which a number of grammatical mechanisms and structures are compared across the two sign languages, using a corpus consisting of similar VGT and SASL-data of a various nature. The overall goal of the project is to contribute to a further understanding of the issue of the degree of similarity across unrelated sign languages. However, the different studies also mean a further exploration of the grammars of the two languages involved. In this paper the focus is on the analysis of isolated declarative sentences elicited by means of pictures. The results yield some interesting similarities across all signers but also indicate that — especially with regard to constituent order — there are important differences between the two languages.
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Wilcox, Sherman. "Gesture and language." Gesture 4, no. 1 (June 10, 2004): 43–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/gest.4.1.04wil.

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In this paper I explore the role of gesture in the development of signed languages. Using data from American Sign Language, Catalan Sign Language, French Sign Language, and Italian Sign Language, as well as historical sources describing gesture in the Mediterranean region, I demonstrate that gesture enters the linguistic system via two distinct routes. In one, gesture serves as a source of lexical and grammatical morphemes in signed languages. In the second, elements become directly incorporated into signed language morphology, bypassing the lexical stage. Finally, I propose a unifying framework for understanding the gesture-language interface in signed and spoken languages.
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Malaia, Evie, and Ronnie B. Wilbur. "Early acquisition of sign language." Sign Language and Linguistics 13, no. 2 (December 31, 2010): 183–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sll.13.2.03mal.

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Early acquisition of a natural language, signed or spoken, has been shown to fundamentally impact both one’s ability to use the first language, and the ability to learn subsequent languages later in life (Mayberry 2007, 2009). This review summarizes a number of recent neuroimaging studies in order to detail the neural bases of sign language acquisition. The logic of this review is to present research reports that contribute to the bigger picture showing that people who acquire a natural language, spoken or signed, in the normal way possess specialized linguistic abilities and brain functions that are missing or deficient in people whose exposure to natural language is delayed or absent. Comparing the function of each brain region with regards to the processing of spoken and sign languages, we attempt to clarify the role each region plays in language processing in general, and to outline the challenges and remaining questions in understanding language processing in the brain.
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Morgan, Gary, and Bencie Woll. "Understanding sign language classifiers through a polycomponential approach." Lingua 117, no. 7 (July 2007): 1159–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2006.01.006.

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Corina, David P., and Eva Gutierrez. "Embodiment and American Sign Language." Gesture 15, no. 3 (November 28, 2016): 291–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/gest.15.3.01cor.

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Little is known about how individual signs that occur in naturally produced signed languages are recognized. Here we examine whether sign understanding may be grounded in sensorimotor properties by evaluating a signer’s ability to make lexical decisions to American Sign Language (ASL) signs that are articulated either congruent with or incongruent with the observer’s own handedness. Our results show little evidence for handedness congruency effects for native signers’ perception of ASL, however handedness congruency effects were seen in non-native late learners of ASL and hearing ASL-English bilinguals. The data are compatible with a theory of sign recognition that makes reference to internally simulated articulatory control signals — a forward model based upon sensory-motor properties of one’s owns body. The data suggest that sign recognition may rely upon an internal body schema when processing is non-optimal as a result of having learned ASL later in life. Native signers however may have developed representations of signs which are less bound to the hand with which it is performed, suggesting a different engagement of an internal forward model for rapid lexical decisions.
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Futagami, Reiko, and Takayuki Kanazawa. "Social Understanding of Sign Language in the Process of Passing Sign Language Ordinances in Gunma Prefecture:." Japanese Journal of Sign Language Studies 25 (2016): 39–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.7877/jasl.25.39.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sign Language Understanding"

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Belissen, Valentin. "From Sign Recognition to Automatic Sign Language Understanding : Addressing the Non-Conventionalized Units." Electronic Thesis or Diss., université Paris-Saclay, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPASG064.

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Les langues des signes (LS) se sont développées naturellement au sein des communautés de Sourds. Ne disposant pas de forme écrite, ce sont des langues orales, utilisant les canaux gestuel pour l’expression et visuel pour la réception. Ces langues peu dotées ne font pas l'objet d'un large consensus au niveau de leur description linguistique. Elles intègrent des signes lexicaux, c’est-à-dire des unités conventionnalisées du langage dont la forme est supposée arbitraire, mais aussi – et à la différence des langues vocales, si on ne considère pas la gestualité co-verbale – des structures iconiques, en utilisant l’espace pour organiser le discours. L’iconicité, ce lien entre la forme d’un signe et le sens qu’il porte, est en effet utilisée à plusieurs niveaux du discours en LS.La plupart des travaux de recherche en reconnaissance automatique de LS se sont en fait attelés à reconnaitre les signes lexicaux, d’abord sous forme isolée puis au sein de LS continue. Les corpus de vidéos associés à ces recherches sont souvent relativement artificiels, consistant en la répétition d’énoncés élicités sous forme écrite, parfois en LS interprétée, qui peut également présenter des différences importantes avec la LS naturelle.Dans cette thèse, nous souhaitons montrer les limites de cette approche, en élargissant cette perspective pour envisager la reconnaissance d’éléments utilisés pour la construction du discours ou au sein de structures illustratives.Pour ce faire, nous montrons l’intérêt et les limites des corpus de linguistes : la langue y est naturelle et les annotations parfois détaillées, mais pas toujours utilisables en données d’entrée de système d’apprentissage automatique, car pas nécessairement cohérentes. Nous proposons alors la refonte d’un corpus de dialogue en langue des signes française, Dicta-Sign-LSF-v2, avec des annotations riches et cohérentes, suivant un schéma d’annotation partagé par de nombreux linguistes.Nous proposons ensuite une redéfinition du problème de la reconnaissance automatique de LS, consistant en la reconnaissance de divers descripteurs linguistiques, plutôt que de se focaliser sur les signes lexicaux uniquement. En parallèle, nous discutons de métriques de la performance adaptées.Pour réaliser une première expérience de reconnaissance de descripteurs linguistiques non uniquement lexicaux, nous développons alors une représentation compacte et généralisable des signeurs dans les vidéos. Celle-ci est en effet réalisée par un traitement parallèle des mains, du visage et du haut du corps, en utilisant des outils existants ainsi que des modèles que nous avons développés. Un prétraitement permet alors de former un vecteur de caractéristiques pertinentes. Par la suite, nous présentons une architecture adaptée et modulaire d’apprentissage automatique de descripteurs linguistiques, consistant en un réseau de neurones récurrent et convolutionnel.Nous montrons enfin via une analyse quantitative et qualitative l’effectivité du modèle proposé, testé sur Dicta-Sign-LSF-v2. Nous réalisons en premier lieu une analyse approfondie du paramétrage, en évaluant tant le modèle d'apprentissage que la représentation des signeurs. L’étude des prédictions du modèle montre alors le bien-fondé de l'approche proposée, avec une performance tout à fait intéressante pour la reconnaissance continue de quatre descripteurs linguistiques, notamment au vu de l’incertitude relative aux annotations elles-mêmes. La segmentation de ces dernières est en effet subjective, et la pertinence même des catégories utilisées n’est pas démontrée de manière forte. Indirectement, le modèle proposé pourrait donc permettre de mesurer la validité de ces catégories. Avec plusieurs pistes d’amélioration envisagées, notamment sur la représentation des signeurs et l’utilisation de corpus de taille supérieure, le bilan est très encourageant et ouvre la voie à une acception plus large de la reconnaissance continue de langue des signes
Sign Languages (SLs) have developed naturally in Deaf communities. With no written form, they are oral languages, using the gestural channel for expression and the visual channel for reception. These poorly endowed languages do not meet with a broad consensus at the linguistic level. These languages make use of lexical signs, i.e. conventionalized units of language whose form is supposed to be arbitrary, but also - and unlike vocal languages, if we don't take into account the co-verbal gestures - iconic structures, using space to organize discourse. Iconicity, which is defined as the existence of a similarity between the form of a sign and the meaning it carries, is indeed used at several levels of SL discourse.Most research in automatic Sign Language Recognition (SLR) has in fact focused on recognizing lexical signs, at first in the isolated case and then within continuous SL. The video corpora associated with such research are often relatively artificial, consisting of the repetition of elicited utterances in written form. Other corpora consist of interpreted SL, which may also differ significantly from natural SL, as it is strongly influenced by the surrounding vocal language.In this thesis, we wish to show the limits of this approach, by broadening this perspective to consider the recognition of elements used for the construction of discourse or within illustrative structures.To do so, we show the interest and the limits of the corpora developed by linguists. In these corpora, the language is natural and the annotations are sometimes detailed, but not always usable as input data for machine learning systems, as they are not necessarily complete or coherent. We then propose the redesign of a French Sign Language dialogue corpus, Dicta-Sign-LSF-v2, with rich and consistent annotations, following an annotation scheme shared by many linguists.We then propose a redefinition of the problem of automatic SLR, consisting in the recognition of various linguistic descriptors, rather than focusing on lexical signs only. At the same time, we discuss adapted metrics for relevant performance assessment.In order to perform a first experiment on the recognition of linguistic descriptors that are not only lexical, we then develop a compact and generalizable representation of signers in videos. This is done by parallel processing of the hands, face and upper body, using existing tools and models that we have set up. Besides, we preprocess these parallel representations to obtain a relevant feature vector. We then present an adapted and modular architecture for automatic learning of linguistic descriptors, consisting of a recurrent and convolutional neural network.Finally, we show through a quantitative and qualitative analysis the effectiveness of the proposed model, tested on Dicta-Sign-LSF-v2. We first carry out an in-depth analysis of the parameterization, evaluating both the learning model and the signer representation. The study of the model predictions then demonstrates the merits of the proposed approach, with a very interesting performance for the continuous recognition of four linguistic descriptors, especially in view of the uncertainty related to the annotations themselves. The segmentation of the latter is indeed subjective, and the very relevance of the categories used is not strongly demonstrated. Indirectly, the proposed model could therefore make it possible to measure the validity of these categories. With several areas for improvement being considered, particularly in terms of signer representation and the use of larger corpora, the results are very encouraging and pave the way for a wider understanding of continuous Sign Language Recognition
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Buehler, Patrick. "Automatic learning of British Sign Language from signed TV broadcasts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2930e980-4307-41bf-b4ff-87e8c4d0d722.

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In this work, we will present several contributions towards automatic recognition of BSL signs from continuous signing video sequences. Specifically, we will address three main points: (i) automatic detection and tracking of the hands using a generative model of the image; (ii) automatic learning of signs from TV broadcasts using the supervisory information available from subtitles; and (iii) generalisation given sign examples from one signer to recognition of signs from different signers. Our source material consists of many hours of video with continuous signing and corresponding subtitles recorded from BBC digital television. This is very challenging material for a number of reasons, including self-occlusions of the signer, self-shadowing, blur due to the speed of motion, and in particular the changing background. Knowledge of the hand position and hand shape is a pre-requisite for automatic sign language recognition. We cast the problem of detecting and tracking the hands as inference in a generative model of the image, and propose a complete model which accounts for the positions and self-occlusions of the arms. Reasonable configurations are obtained by efficiently sampling from a pictorial structure proposal distribution. The results using our method exceed the state-of-the-art for the length and stability of continuous limb tracking. Previous research in sign language recognition has typically required manual training data to be generated for each sign, e.g. a signer performing each sign in controlled conditions - a time-consuming and expensive procedure. We show that for a given signer, a large number of BSL signs can be learned automatically from TV broadcasts using the supervisory information available from subtitles broadcast simultaneously with the signing. We achieve this by modelling the problem as one of multiple instance learning. In this way we are able to extract the sign of interest from hours of signing footage, despite the very weak and "noisy" supervision from the subtitles. Lastly, we show that automatic recognition of signs can be extended to multiple signers. Using automatically extracted examples from a single signer, we train discriminative classifiers and show that these can successfully classify and localise signs in new signers. This demonstrates that the descriptor we extract for each frame (i.e. hand position, hand shape, and hand orientation) generalises between different signers.
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Crawley, Victoria Louise. "Achieving understanding via interpreter participation in sign language/English map task dialogues : an analysis of repair sequences involving ambiguity and underspecificity in signed and spoken modes." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15694/.

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Research into the role of the interpreter in dialogue interpreting has so far established that the interpreter participates in the interaction just as much as the two primary participants,particularly in the area of turn-taking. Less has been written about the nature of participation by the interpreter when interpreting. This thesis has contributed to knowledge through research into the extent and the manner of participation by the interpreter when there are problems due to seeing/hearing, producing or understanding: “repair” (Schegloff , Sacks and Jefferson 1977). Using an established tool (a Map Task) in order to distract participants from their language use, the actions of the interpreter were examined through a Conversation Analysis lens, to observe what it is that interpreters do in these situations of uncertainty. The findings were that the participation by interpreters, often described by practitioners as “clarifying”, was due, for the most part, to what I have defined as “ambiguity” and “underspecificity”. The interpreter must change stance from “other” to “self”. I have considered this action, positing a model Stop – Account – Act, and also the responses from the participants when the interpreter changes from “other” to “self” and back, using those responses to show whether the clients understand the interpreter’s change of stance. It is already known that understanding is collaboratively achieved in interpreted interactions just as it is in monolingual conversations. My contribution to interpreting studies is to strengthen this understanding by empirical research. Interlocutors do not present an absolute meaning in one language which is then reframed in another language; meanings are differentiated between collaboratively through further talk. I show that an interpreter is tightly constrained in their participation, and that their overriding job of interpreting dictates the reasons for their participation. The interpreter seeks not “what does that mean?” but rather “what do you mean?”.
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Walsh, M. Christine. "A Case Study of a Polyphonic Literacy Apprentice: A Kindergarten Composer's Development of Voice and Genre Understanding through the Use of Multiple Sign Systems." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1255978540.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Apr. 3, 2010). Advisor: Beverly Timmons. Keywords: early writing, writing instruction, Kindergarten, voice in writing, genre understanding. Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-223).
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Clancy, Shannon M. "The Mediating Effects of Science Classroom Talk on the Understanding of Earth-Sun-Moon Concepts with Middle School Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1483721076314004.

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Ray, Corey Carpenter. "Understanding the ancient Egyptians : an examination of living creature hieroglyphs." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51538.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 1999.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis an exploration is made into whether or not hieroglyphs reflect ideas of the ancient Egyptians themselves. By examining "living creature" hieroglyphs one may contemplate why the ancient Egyptian chose a particular manner of depiction. The manner of depiction can then be examined insofar as what ideas they may reflect. In this way study into other groups of signs such as those of the environment may be used to further illuminate the lives and our understanding of the ancient Egyptian(s). This thesis begins with an examination of both the problem inherent in such a task and an overview of some of the "processes" involved. By understanding that a reconstructed reality, that of the hieroglyph, reflects both real and perceived characteristics represented in glyphic form, one may seek out the mental impressions considered relevant to the people themselves. Next the role literacy played and still plays is discussed. This discussion includes a brief historical overview of both the history of decipherment and the "language" of the ancient Egyptians. The importance of "writing", artistic in nature in Egypt in regards to hieroglyphs, is then discussed as it relates to its use as symbol. Hieroglyphs are then discussed in their role as art, communication, and language emphasizing the multitudinous role(s) which they served. The importance is thus reiterated that hieroglyphs served as a communication of ideas to both the literate and the "illiterate" in at least a menial manner. After providing a "background" context of both the world and time of hieroglyphs and their subsequent "understanding" and interpretation, there is an analysis of the hieroglyphs for living creatures including the following Gardiner groupings: (1) mammals, (2) birds, (3) amphibians and reptiles, (4) fish, (5) invertebrates and lesser animals. The signs are examined in regards to their function and variations followed by some observations and comments related to the "structure" and perspective of the sign itself. Summary observations and comments are then made about each group. The thesis is then brought full circle by examining the implications of what hieroglyphs can tell us about the ancient Egyptians, via the perceptive and communicative role which they played. By understanding hieroglyphs as "fingerprints" of/from the mind of the people and subsequently their culture, this framework may provide a new mechanism into understanding the Egyptian via their own visualization and perceptive nature. A case is then proposed that this new "mechanism", if it is indeed considered feasible, can be applied to not only the physical world consisting of nature such as the environment, but also to groups which depict manmade objects.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie tesis is die moontlikheid ondersoek dat hierogliewe iets van die ideewereld van die antieke Egiptenare reflekteer. In die bestudering van "lewende wese" hierogliewe kom vrae op soos waarom die antieke Egiptenare juis 'n spesifieke vorm van voorsteIIing verkies het. Die vorm van voorsteIIing kan dan bestudeer word vir die idees wat dit moontlik mag reflekteer. Ander groepe/velde van tekens, soos die van die breër omgewing, kan gebruik word om verdere lig te werp op die lewe van die antieke Egiptenaar(e) en ons verstaan daarvan. Die tesis begin met 'n bestudering van die inherente probleme in die aanpak van so 'n taak en 'n oorsig oor sommige van die "prosesse" daarby betrokke. By die verstaan van die hieroglief as 'n gekonstrueerde realiteit, wat weklike sowel as afgeleide eienskappe reflekteer, ontdek die ondersoeker daarvan iets van die persoonlike/kulturele indrukke wat deur hierdie groep mense as relevant ervaar is. In die volgende afdeling kom die rol van geletterdheid aan die beurt. Hierdie bespreking sluit 'n bondige historiese oorsig oor die geskiedenis van ontsyfering asook die taal van die Egiptenare in. Die belang van die "skryfkuns" en veral die kunsaard daarvan in die Egiptiese hierogliewe word vervolgens bespreek. Dit is veraI waar soos dit in verhouding staan met die gebruik daarvan as simbool. Die veelsydige rol(le) en belang van hierogliewe in die kuns, kommunikasie en taal word dan ondersoek en bespreek. Die klem word daarop gelê dat hierogliewe as die kommunikasie van idees aan beide die geletterde en "ongeletterde" dien. Nadat 'n agtergrondkonteks van die wereld en tyd van die hierogliewe en die daaruitvloeiende "verstaan" en interpretasie daarvan gegee is, word 'n analise van die "lewende wese" hierogliewe gedoen. Dit sluit die volgende groeperinge van Gardiner in: (1) soogdiere, (2) voels, (3) amfibiee en reptiele, (4) visse, (5) invertebrata en kleiner diere. Hierdie hierogliewe word ondersoek in terme van hulle funksie en variasies, gevolg deur waarnemings en opmerkings aangaande die "struktuur" en die perspektief van die teken. Opsommende observasies en enkele opmerkings oor elke groep volg daarna. Die tesis word afgerond met 'n ondersoek na die implikasies van wat ons kan wys word uit die hierogliewe aangaande die antieke Egiptenare, via die perspektiwiese en kommunikatiewe rol wat dit vervuI. Deur hierogliewe te verstaan as die "vingerafdrukke" van die begrip van hierdie mense kan hierdie raamwerk 'n nuwe meganisme in die verstaan van die Egiptenaar via die visualisasie en waarneembare aard daarvan, vorm. 'n Voorstel word gemaak dat hierdie nuwe "meganisme", indien dit uitvoerbaar is, toegepas kan word, nie net op die hierogliewe van die fisiese wereld bestaande uit die natuur en die omgewing nie, maar ook op hierogliewe wat mensgemaakte voorwerpe voorstel.
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Wagner, Tsipi. "Secular Understanding and Shattering the Myth of the American Dream: A Chronological Analysis of Changing Attitudes and Depictions of Murder within the Twentieth-Century American Literary Canon." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/72.

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Extreme violence, which often results in murder, is a prominent theme in the American literary canon; therefore, it deserves a wider and more focused lens in the study of Twentieth-Century American literature. Murder and entertainment seldom coexist in canonical literature, but the very nature of the murder, foreign to many readers, consequently piques one’s curiosity, and demands special attention. The literary texts I have chosen to discuss are four novels and three plays. They all belong to the genre known in literature as ‘a crime novel or play.’ The murderers are easily identified, and their criminal acts have been carried out successfully, often with much forethought and detail. My focus has been to conduct a psychological study to highlight the impetus for the crime. Three basic themes have captured my attention: 1- Is the murder a sin or a crime? What is the role of religion in the lives of the accused? 2- Is it right to blame society for such horrendous acts? 3- How is the American Dream portrayed in these works? The closer we get to the end of the Twentieth-Century, the harder it is to detect an affirmative ending in the works of literature I have explored. The insatiable appetite for material consumption overshadows the pursuit of happiness, or, maybe happiness is defined by material wealth. The critical question is: can American society read the warning written on the wall?
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Conlin-Luippold, Frances. "Deaf children's understanding of the language of motion and location in ASL." Thesis, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/14030.

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Understanding how a language expresses the existence and action of an entity represents a critical juncture in the development of cognition and the development of language. For deaf children learning a sign language, verbs of motion and location exemplify this critical juncture: these are complex structures that convey substantial morphological, syntactic and semantic information. This dissertation investigated deaf children’s understanding of linguistic representations of motion events as presented in a variety of verbs of motion and location in American Sign Language. The sample for this investigation consisted of 350 deaf children (of Deaf and hearing parents) enrolled in schools for the deaf in the United States. The subjects, who ranged in age from 4-18, were administered the Real Objects and Plurals Arrangement Task (ROPL) of the American Sign Language Assessment Instrument (ASLAI). The following research questions were addressed: (1) To what extent do deaf children understand each of the features of motion events (figure, ground, motion, path, manner, cause) expressed in verbs of motion and location? (2) What (if any) is the implicational structure of these features in the course of acquisition? (3) What role does exposure (i.e. early vs. late input) play on the acquisition of these features? Do age and parental hearing status influence the acquisition of these features? (4) Is there any difference in how deaf children learn to understand events in verbs of motion compared to verbs of location? Results revealed that deaf children's understanding of motion event features follows a sequential process, with features such as motion and figure being acquired in the earliest stages and path and ground being acquired later. Moreover, both age and length of exposure (to a signed language) influenced this acquisition process. These findings suggest that for deaf children, the acquisition of motion event structure in verbs of motion and location is a multifaceted process that is dependent on several factors.
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"Towards Building an Intelligent Tutor for Gestural Languages using Concept Level Explainable AI." Doctoral diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.57347.

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abstract: Languages, specially gestural and sign languages, are best learned in immersive environments with rich feedback. Computer-Aided Language Learning (CALL) solu- tions for spoken languages have successfully incorporated some feedback mechanisms, but no such solution exists for signed languages. Computer Aided Sign Language Learning (CASLL) is a recent and promising field of research which is made feasible by advances in Computer Vision and Sign Language Recognition(SLR). Leveraging existing SLR systems for feedback based learning is not feasible because their decision processes are not human interpretable and do not facilitate conceptual feedback to learners. Thus, fundamental research is needed towards designing systems that are modular and explainable. The explanations from these systems can then be used to produce feedback to aid in the learning process. In this work, I present novel approaches for the recognition of location, movement and handshape that are components of American Sign Language (ASL) using both wrist-worn sensors as well as webcams. Finally, I present Learn2Sign(L2S), a chat- bot based AI tutor that can provide fine-grained conceptual feedback to learners of ASL using the modular recognition approaches. L2S is designed to provide feedback directly relating to the fundamental concepts of ASL using an explainable AI. I present the system performance results in terms of Precision, Recall and F-1 scores as well as validation results towards the learning outcomes of users. Both retention and execution tests for 26 participants for 14 different ASL words learned using learn2sign is presented. Finally, I also present the results of a post-usage usability survey for all the participants. In this work, I found that learners who received live feedback on their executions improved their execution as well as retention performances. The average increase in execution performance was 28% points and that for retention was 4% points.
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Doctoral Dissertation Engineering 2020
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Voborský, Lukáš. "Význam a rozumění v kontextu myšlení Jacquesa Derridy a Hans-Georga Gadamera." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-329594.

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Meaning and Understanding in the Context of Thought of Jacques Derrida and Hans-Georg Gadamer The focus of the present study is mainly on the discussion of the process of understanding and emergence of meaning. Using the example of Gadamer's hermeneutics it becomes clear what are the limits of positive attempt to express conditions of understanding within the context of the philosophy of finitude. In spite of its undeniable benefits, hermeneutic understanding shows itself to be vulnerable towards ideology and it could be seen as suspected of hidden normativity thanks to its emphasis on agreement and coherency. Derrida's deconstruction on the other hand shows the dynamics of emergence of meaning in language, it emphasizes plurality and ambiguity in contrast towards totalizing unicity and agreement; however, due to this approach, it is unable to offer anything close to what we call the truth. In a parallel line of interpretation, philosophical- antropological approach of Ernst Cassirer standing in comparison with Heidegger's existential analytics of Dasein shows that already at the fundamental level in the process of establishment of terms and concepts and earlier our understanding is already determined to a certain extent. Discussion between Gadamer and Derrida shows a necessity of certain arbitrary...
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Books on the topic "Sign Language Understanding"

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Sign language archaeology: Understanding the historical roots of American sign language. Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 2014.

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Burashko, Adelina. See, hear and sing: Understanding musical language. Oakville, Ont: F. Harris Music, 1987.

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Gallas, Karen. The languages of learning: How children talk, write, dance, draw and sing their understanding of the world. New York: Teachers College Press, 1994.

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The languages of learning: How children talk, write, dance, draw, and sing their understanding of the world. New York: Teachers College Press, 1994.

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Clark, Patricia, and Ted Supalla. Sign Language Archaeology: Understanding the Historical Roots of American Sign Language. Gallaudet University Press, 2020.

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Müller de Quadros, Ronice. Language Policies and Sign Languages. Edited by James W. Tollefson and Miguel Pérez-Milans. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190458898.013.15.

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This chapter argues for specific actions needed for language planning and language policies involving sign languages and Deaf communities, based on the understanding of what sign languages are, who the signers are, where they sign, and the sign language transmission and maintenance mechanisms of the Deaf community. The first section presents an overview of sign languages and their users, highlighting that sign languages are often used in contexts where most people use spoken languages. The second section addresses the functions, roles, and status of sign languages in relation to spoken languages, as well as the relationship between Deaf communities and hearing society. The medical view of deafness, which has a significant impact on language policies for Deaf people, is critically considered. The third section offers examples of language policies, especially related to the use of sign languages in education, and an agenda for future work on sign language policy and planning.
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Mathers, Carla M. Sign Language Interpreters in Court: Understanding Best Practices. AuthorHouse, 2006.

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Sign Language Interpreters in Court: Understanding Best Practices. AuthorHouse, 2006.

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Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development: Essays in Honour of Bencie Woll. Benjamins Publishing Company, John, 2020.

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Morgan, Gary. Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development: Essays in Honour of Bencie Woll. Benjamins Publishing Company, John, 2020.

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Napier, Jemina, and Lorraine Leeson. "Understanding Applied Sign Linguistics." In Sign Language in Action, 19–49. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137309778_2.

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Hoiting, Nini, and Dan I. Slobin. "Transcription as a tool for understanding." In Directions in Sign Language Acquisition, 55–75. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tilar.2.06hoi.

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Marshall, Chloë, Katherine Rowley, Joanna Atkinson, Tanya Denmark, Joanna Hoskins, and Jechil Sieratzki. "Chapter 5. Atypical sign language development." In Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development, 73–92. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tilar.25.05mar.

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Napier, Jemina. "Understanding the Implications of Sign Language Brokering." In Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families, 299–331. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67140-2_7.

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Camgöz, Necati Cihan, Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu, and Lale Akarun. "Sign Language Recognition for Assisting the Deaf in Hospitals." In Human Behavior Understanding, 89–101. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46843-3_6.

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Poulet, Thomas, Victor Haffreingue, and Taha Ridene. "Conversational Agent Module for French Sign Language Using Kinect Sensor." In Understanding Human Activities Through 3D Sensors, 42–56. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91863-1_4.

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Cardin, Velia, Ruth Campbell, Mairéad MacSweeney, Emil Holmer, Jerker Rönnberg, and Mary Rudner. "Chapter 9. Neurobiological insights from the study of deafness and sign language." In Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development, 159–81. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tilar.25.09car.

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Rodríguez, Jefferson, Juan Chacón, Edgar Rangel, Luis Guayacán, Claudia Hernández, Luisa Hernández, and Fabio Martínez. "Understanding Motion in Sign Language: A New Structured Translation Dataset." In Computer Vision – ACCV 2020, 669–84. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69544-6_40.

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Grazzani, Ilaria, Veronica Ornaghi, Alessia Agliati, Elisa Brazzelli, and Maria Lucarelli. "Chapter 5. Enhancing mental state language and emotion understanding of toddlers’ social cognition." In Studies in Narrative, 129–47. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sin.25.06gra.

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Schick, Brenda, Marc Marschark, and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer. "Understanding Sign Language Development of Deaf Children." In Advances in the Sign-Language Development of Deaf Children, 3–19. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195180947.003.0001.

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Conference papers on the topic "Sign Language Understanding"

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Ng, Richard, Emily Zou, and Ho Seok Ahn. "Sign Language and Emotion Understanding." In HRI '21: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3447279.

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Jalal, Md Asif, Ruilong Chen, Roger K. Moore, and Lyudmila Mihaylova. "American Sign Language Posture Understanding with Deep Neural Networks." In 2018 21st International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2018). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/icif.2018.8455725.

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Shi, Bowen, and Karen Livescu. "Multitask training with unlabeled data for end-to-end sign language fingerspelling recognition." In 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/asru.2017.8268962.

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Lagha, Imen, and Achraf Othman. "Understanding Prosodic Pauses in Sign Language from Motion-Capture and Video-data." In 2019 7th International conference on ICT & Accessibility (ICTA). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icta49490.2019.9144795.

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Nadgeri, Sulochana, and Arun Kumar. "An Image Texture based approach in understanding and classifying Baby Sign Language." In 2019 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Instrumentation and Control Technologies (ICICICT). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icicict46008.2019.8993381.

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Imashev, Alfarabi, Medet Mukushev, Vadim Kimmelman, and Anara Sandygulova. "A Dataset for Linguistic Understanding, Visual Evaluation, and Recognition of Sign Languages: The K-RSL." In Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.conll-1.51.

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Glasser, Abraham, Vaishnavi Mande, and Matt Huenerfauth. "Understanding deaf and hard-of-hearing users' interest in sign-language interaction with personal-assistant devices." In W4A '21: 18th Web for All Conference. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3430263.3452428.

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Perry, Oded, and Yitzhak Yitzhaky. "Automatic understanding of road signs in vehicular active night vision system." In 2012 International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP). IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icalip.2012.6376578.

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Tiapkina, Aleksandra Sergeevna, and Aleksandr Lvovich Bolkhovskoi. "Germenevticheskii podkhod k organizatsii raboty nad tekstom uchashchikhsia srednego zvena." In International Research-to-practice conference. Publishing house Sreda, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.31483/r-32767.

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The article deals with the aspects of hermeneutic approach in the method of working on the text with middle-level students. The problem of understanding has always been Central not only in linguistics but also in philosophy, while Philology distinguishes three types of understanding: semantic, cognitive and distributive. The main thing in the method described by the authors is a test that acts not as a basis for learning, but as an object of understanding, and the language is perceived not as a system of signs, but as our cultural and historical heritage as a whole. A detailed description of the levels of understanding of the text, when the information turns into knowledge, methods of formation of the ability to design your own text based on the intended listener or reader. Alternately, students placed in different communicative position from the speaker, pereskazchika or writer to researcher, collaborator or critic.
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Crispin, Darla. Artistic Research as a Process of Unfolding. Norges Musikkhøgskole, August 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.22501/nmh-ar.503395.

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As artistic research work in various disciplines and national contexts continues to develop, the diversity of approaches to the field becomes ever more apparent. This is to be welcomed, because it keeps alive ideas of plurality and complexity at a particular time in history when the gross oversimplifications and obfuscations of political discourses are compromising the nature of language itself, leading to what several commentators have already called ‘a post-truth’ world. In this brutal environment where ‘information’ is uncoupled from reality and validated only by how loudly and often it is voiced, the artist researcher has a responsibility that goes beyond the confines of our discipline to articulate the truth-content of his or her artistic practice. To do this, they must embrace daring and risk-taking, finding ways of communicating that flow against the current norms. In artistic research, the empathic communication of information and experience – and not merely the ‘verbally empathic’ – is a sign of research transferability, a marker for research content. But this, in some circles, is still a heretical point of view. Research, in its more traditional manifestations mistrusts empathy and individually-incarnated human experience; the researcher, although a sentient being in the world, is expected to behave dispassionately in their professional discourse, and with a distrust for insights that come primarily from instinct. For the construction of empathic systems in which to study and research, our structures still need to change. So, we need to work toward a new world (one that is still not our idea), a world that is symptomatic of what we might like artistic research to be. Risk is one of the elements that helps us to make the conceptual twist that turns subjective, reflexive experience into transpersonal, empathic communication and/or scientifically-viable modes of exchange. It gives us something to work with in engaging with debates because it means that something is at stake. To propose a space where such risks may be taken, I shall revisit Gillian Rose’s metaphor of ‘the fold’ that I analysed in the first Symposium presented by the Arne Nordheim Centre for Artistic Research (NordART) at the Norwegian Academy of Music in November 2015. I shall deepen the exploration of the process of ‘unfolding’, elaborating on my belief in its appropriateness for artistic research work; I shall further suggest that Rose’s metaphor provides a way to bridge some of the gaps of understanding that have already developed between those undertaking artistic research and those working in the more established music disciplines.
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