IDGS at the 8th SLTAT in Greece

12 June 2023

Photo: IDGS

On 10 June 2023, the eighth SLTAT (Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology) workshop took place in Rhodes, Greece. IDGS was represented there by Thomas Hanke, Sam Bigeard, Lutz König, Maria Kopf, Marc Schulder (EASIER project and DGS corpus project) and guest researcher Tsubasa Uchida. Our team presented their work in the form of posters and talks. The workshop was very interactive and offered many opportunities for international exchange. Our team presented the following publications:
 
IDGS:

Representation Matters. The Case for Diversifying Sign Language Avatars

The Sign Language Interchange Format: Harmonising Sign Language Datasets for Computational Processing 

 EASIER Notation – A Proposal for a Gloss-based Scripting Language for Sign Language Generation Based on Lexical Data
 
Tsubasa Uchida und Team:

Machine translation to sign language using post-translation replacement without placeholders

Motion editing tool for reproducing grammatical elements of Japanese Sign Language avatar animation