A Multilingual Multimedia Indian Sign Language Dictionary Tool

Abstract

This paper presents a cross platform multilingual multimedia Indian Sign Language (ISL) dictionary building tool. ISL is a linguistically under-investigated language with no source of well documented electronic data. Research on ISL linguistics also gets hindered due to a lack of ISL knowledge and the unavailability of any educational tools. Our system can be used to associate signs corresponding to a given text. The current system also facilitates the phonological annotation of Indian signs in the form of HamNoSys structure. The generated HamNoSys string can be given as input to an avatar module to produce an animated sign representation. © 2008 Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing. All rights reserved.