EASIER Notation – A Proposal for a Gloss-based Scripting Language for Sign Language Generation Based on Lexical Data

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T. Hanke, L. König, R. Konrad, M. Kopf, M. Schulder and R. Wolfe, "EASIER Notation – a Proposal for a Gloss-Based Scripting Language for Sign Language Generation Based on Lexical Data", 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops: Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology, Rhodes Island, Greece, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ICASSPW59220.2023.10192997. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10192997&isnumber=10192577

Abstract

We introduce EASIER Notation, a gloss-based scripting language to describe sign language content to be signed by an avatar and describe the functionality a lexical database for a sign language needs to provide in order to fully support the notation approach. In addition, we present the prototype of a text editor supporting EASIER Notation for human post-editing of machine translation output as well as pre-scribing signed utterances from scratch.