Current Issues in Sign Language Research

Wisdom; Partners (EU); Wireless Sign Language services; status: completed
Visicast; Partners (EU); Sign Language translation (rule based) for web, face-to-face etc.; status: completed
eSIGN; Partners (EU); Virtual signing for eGovernment, web etc. (combines Visicast and Wisdom); status: not started

SASL-MT Project; Dr. van Zijl, University of Stellenbosch (ZA); Translation from English text to South African Sign Language (SASL) (rule based translation); status: working; Publications
DePaul ASL Project; DePaul University (US); Translation from English to ASL; status: ???; Publications

Mobile Sign Language Recognition; Prof. Starner, CC Georgia Institute of Technology (US); ASL recognition for wearables using HMM; status: started; Publications
Sign Language Recognition; Prof. Kraiss, LTI RWTH Aachen (D); Recognition using HMM; status: working; Publications
Christian Vogler, University of Pennsylvania (US); ASL recognition with HMM; status: completed; Publications
SignSpeak; Prof. Omlin, University of Western Cape (ZA); SignSpeak: Integration of Verbal and Signed Communication (using neural networks) status: working

Inistitute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf; Prof. Prillwitz, Universität Hamburg (D); DGS lexica and HamNoSys notation system
Deaf and Sign Language Research Team; RWTH Aachen (D); Sign Language teaching
Gallaudet University; University for the Deaf (US)
Centre for Deaf Studies; University of Brisol (UK); Interaction and communication

Sign Language Links; DGSD Deutsche Gebärdensprachdolmetscher (D)
Sign Language Research Links; Machine Gesture and Sign Language Recognition (AUS)

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