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A Method for Analyzing Spatial Relationships Between Words in Sign Language Recognition

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Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction (GW 1999)

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There are expressions usingspatial relationships in sign language that are called directional verbs. To understand a sign-language sentence that includes a directional verb, it is necessary to analyze the spatial relationship between the recognized sign-language words and to find the proper combination of a directional verb and the sign-language words related to it. In this paper, we propose an analysis method for evaluatingthe spatial relationship between a directional verb and other sign-language words according to the distribution of the parameters representingthe spatial relationship.

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  1. RWCP, Multi-modal Functions Hitachi Laboratory, 1-280 Higashi-koigakubo Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo, 185-8601, Japan

    Hirohiko Sagawa & Masaru Takeuchi

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  1. LIMSI-CNRS, BP 133, 91403, Orsay cedex, France

    Annelies Braffort , Rachid Gherbi , Sylvie Gibet  & Daniel Teil , ,  & 

  2. Université Paris Sud, LPM, 9140, Orsay, France

    James Richardson

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Sagawa, H., Takeuchi, M. (1999). A Method for Analyzing Spatial Relationships Between Words in Sign Language Recognition. In: Braffort, A., Gherbi, R., Gibet, S., Teil, D., Richardson, J. (eds) Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction. GW 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1739. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46616-9_18

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