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Are you curious what the building blocks in sign language are? Watch our new video of SignON Encyclopedia!
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Today is Irish Sign Language Day in Ireland. Our SignON Avatar is signing "Happy ISL Day".
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In 2021
@mdemeulder
wrote and published an article titled Is "good enough" good enough? Ethical and responsible development of sign language technologies in
#AT4SSL
. We took this opportunity to interview her to discuss the article. See !
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Jorn Rijckaert (
@VGTCentrum
): "In our communication we always make clear that SignON doesn’t mean any threat to the use of physical sign language interpreters, but it will contribute to a repertoire of communication options and modalities between signers and non-signers."
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NEW NAME SIGN FOR SIGNON!
The SignON project now having a name sign means that it is being talked about within the deaf communities. We are delighted about this because we attach great importance to the co-creation process with our target groups within our project.
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First International Workshop Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Language
@MTSummit2021
includes 11 papers and a panel with 6 renowned researchers in the fields of machine translation, sign language and avatar technologies. Equipped with International Sign Interpreters.
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We had the first Irish team face-to-face meeting for the SignON project last Friday and we managed to get around half of the Irish team together, with people joining from four of the five Irish partners. Hopefully we will manage to meet a few more next time.
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We are looking for a name sign for SignON! We were given three options from the deaf communities. Vote!
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Our first Irish co-creation event has just started! We will be discussing Sign Language Machine Translation
#DiscussAI
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Our panel discussion about Language Technology for Social Inclusion is underway at the SignON Workshop!
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We enjoyed our SignON Consortium Meeting in the Deaf Heritage Centre in Dublin. Many thanks to all of our speakers and presenters and to the amazing interpreting team who made it all possible.
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The three-year SignON project has now finished! The entire SignON consortium would like to thank everyone for their contributions to our project and our co-creation events. In the video below, you will find some consortium members extending heartfelt THANK YOU signs.
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@mdemeulder
: "In the development and applications of sign language technologies, we must always be mindful of issues of ethical and responsible development, and critically interrogate some of the ideologies behind those technologies."
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We’re invited by
@adamkosamep
to organise a workshop in the European Parliament, where we will talk about the technological advances achieved in our project and the social benefit and impact on the deaf, hard of hearing and hearing stakeholders. Keep following us on twitter!
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Are you not familiar with terms such as AI, Machine Translation, avatars, Sign Language Recognition, ... or would you like to learn more about sign language technology? Then the new video in our SignON encyclopedia series is definitely useful for you!
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@MarkWheatley14
and
@FrankiePicron
(
@EUD_Brussels
): "Contrary to what many researchers think, deaf people are not resistant to technology, but are put off because technologies are usually not designed in collaboration with them. It is important to include them from the start."
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In the first SignON project year, we generated eight scientific publications. They are all available on our website. Now we are translating the abstracts to International Sign. The first video is published!
#MathieuDeCoster
,
@HerrewegheMieke
and
@JoniDambre
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Caro Brosens (
@VGTCentrum
): "SignON is striving to ease the valid concerns and needs on both sides of the sign language data debate, navigating the undeniable added value of high quality data on the one hand, and the inevitable need for big quantities of data on the other."
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We value the involvement of deaf communities in our co-creation workflow. PLEASE SHARE OUR VIDEO explaining the SignON project and follow us on facebook for more news and information!
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Finally, the whole consortium is gathering for the first face-to-face meeting. Dimitar Shterionov introduces us to an exciting two-day programme at Tilburg University.
@DShterionov
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Day 2 of the SignON consortium meeting and Marcello from Fincons is walking us through the SignON application and framework.
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Always great when we get to meet in person. Some of the Irish SignON team met up in Dublin yesterday when
@DShterionov
came back to Ireland for a SignON meeting.
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Today we explained our SignON project at the Interparliamentary Committe of
@taalunie
in the Flemish Parliament. We raised awareness about sign language technologie and its challenges and how the Flemish community can contribute to this.
@VGTCentrum
@ivdnt
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Jaron Garitte (VGTC) tells us what the newly elected name sign of SignON! is. Curious? Coming up next week!
@GaritteJaron
@VGTCentrum
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Register for our workshop: "Navigating the Future of Sign Language Machine Translation: Insights and Challenges from the SignON Project" on Friday, 22nd September 2023, in the heart of the beautiful historic city of Bruges, Belgium.
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On July 1st we had our fifth internal seminar. This time
@shaunoboyle
(DCU) emphasized the importance of the co-creation principle and the participation of both scientists and user groups to the project. See the video below or our facebook for more content
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VGTC are hiring a media and communications officer for the SignON project. If you are interested, please see the details at
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In the first SignON project year, we generated 8 scientific publications. They are all available on our website. Now we are translating the abstracts to International Sign. Here is the second video of our publication "The SignON project: a Sign Language Translation Framework".
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Finally first face-to-face meeting for Flemish members of our consortium, last Friday. We discussed how to label the feed data our AI. We hope more face-to-face meetings will follow soon after a year of online meetings! :)
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@DShterionov
(
@TilburgU
): "Exploiting the advances in sign language and speech recognition, automatic translation and synthesis of 3D virtual characters, SignON develops an all-in-one translation opportunity, accessible with the touch of a button."
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A news article about the SignON Project 👇
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Happy National ISL Day! Thanks
@studies_centre
for the lesson which was organised with
@SignONEU
for
@AdaptCentre
members!
Happy National Irish Sign Language Day from ADAPT! ADAPTers showcase some of their new skills from our ISL lesson today🙌🏽🙌🙌🏾🙌🏿
#ISL4all
Thanks to
@studies_centre
for the session!
#ISL
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@DShterionov
: They show us a short demo video of the SignON application based on feedback from our co-creation events with the communities.
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Now last presentation from team of UPF. They talked about the way of learning and generating the sign language avatar (3D character). We got a glimpse of how they create a sign language avatar.
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The SignON Consortium strongly believes in maintaining a constant dialogue with our target audiences. That is why we have launched a new video series. On "The SignON Forum" we invite everyone to share their questions, concerns, comments or ideas with us. See our website!
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@sofiaisari
, the president of
@EUD_Brussels
, emphasises the importance of discussing how we can work together to achieve progress and reduce communication barriers for signing communities in Europe.
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DO'S AND DON'TS: KEY LESSONS FROM THE SIGNON PROJECT
The interview with Jorn Rijckaert below provides a summary of the most important takeaways we wish to share for upcoming projects in sign language technology:
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@DShterionov
welcoming everyone to Dublin for our SignON consortium meeting. We are looking forward to two days of interesting discussions.
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Caro Brosens (
@VGTCentrum
) shared some insight into describing lexicon of sign languages at our October 19, 2022 internal seminar. She explained in clear terms how sign language researchers are working on lexicography and lemmatization, the obstacles and challenges involved.
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We invite you to take part in our exciting project. We need a huge amount of sign language and speech recordings in order to train and fine-tune existing recognisers in the applications.
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After 3 years, we had our final Wednesday SignON Management call this morning! It's been great to work with such a lovely team!
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The SignON team are driven by listening to what the (potential) users want. V0.1 of the SignON mobile phone App was tested internally. Feedback from this evaluation & responses from round 1 of the co-creation process were used to develop v0.2 for both Android and Apple phones.
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Curious about the reasons why our logo is designed this way? Watch the video below!
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Santiago Egea Gomez about Machine Translation, now discussing Linguistically Enhanced Text to Sign Gloss.
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VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE and learn more about the SignON project funded by Horizon 2020. SignON aims to improve the information exchange and to reduce the communication gap between the deaf, hard of hearing and hearing communities.
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Now it's Jorn Rijckaert's turn (VGTC). He is looking for inspiration within the consortium on some of the communication challenges the SignON project is facing.
@VGTCentrum
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From now on we will start a series of videos "SignON Encyclopedia"! We'll answer various questions about our project, deaf communities, deaf culture and sign languages. Now first video: "what are name signs?"
Please enjoy watching!
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Watch our interview with Mark Wheatley, the Executive Director of
@EUD_Brussels
about the findings from first SignON surveys with deaf and hard of hearing people:
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As we approach the end of 2021, the SignON Project has almost completed its first year of three. In the video below, discover what the SignON consortium has achieved over the last 12 months.
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In the first SignON project year, we generated 8 scientific publications. They are all available on our website. See our website for the third translation video (to International Sign) of our publication “SignON: Bridging the gap between Sign and Spoken Languages".
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SignON is hiring a postdoc to contribute to research, development and innovation tasks to provide an animated virtual signer in the Sign Languages included in the SignON Project. Details at .
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As we approach the end of 2022, the SignON project has almost completed its second year. In the video below, discover what the SignON consortium has achieved over the last 12 months. We wish you happy holidays and a happy new year 2023!
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For our keynote, Sofia Isari (
@sofiaisari
) President of
@EUD_Brussels
explains that we must work together to ensure that the digital world is an accessible world for all.
@EASIERproject
@COST_CA19142
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Learn more about our event “Outcomes and Outlooks of Research on Sign Language in Europe” with
@EASIERproject
and
@COST_CA19142
on Wednesday 29th November:
Watch the video in International Sign:
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New SignON Paper Announcement: "SignON: Bridging the gap between Sign and Spoken Languages." by H. Saggion, D. Shterionov, G. Labaka, T. Van de Cruys, V. Vandeghinste, J. Blat. In 37th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2021)
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Read our press release about the SignON workshop on European Parliament in English: or watch the video in International Sign:
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SignON has received the
@scienceirel
Engaged Research Award. Here's some more information about how our project uses engaged research.
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A nice piece on the
@DCU
website about our recent
@scienceirel
Engaged Research award, which we share with everyone who has interacted with the SignON project.
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Today we started with a presentation by Henk van den Heuvel about SignON use cases and discussing them. We need to define use cases for specific application domains with specific vocabulary for fine tuned training of our models and to organise new oriented data collections.
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Check out our latest publication on "Leveraging Frozen Pretrained Written Language Models for Neural Sign Language Translation" (by Matthieu De Coster and Joni Dambre) on our website!
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We kicked off with a presentation of work package 2 "SignON Application and Framework" by Marcello Paolo Scipioni. He showed us a general overview of the framework, and which components are implemented and integrated.
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Thanks to
@FrankiePicron
from
@EUD_Brussels
for closing today's event, and to all of the presenters for sharing their knowledge, expertise, and perspectives on the future of sign language technology and research. We will share a summary of the event soon.
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Now next presentation from our team “Recognition, Translation and Synthesis”: Tim Van der Cruys (KU Leuven) about Abstract Meaning Representation.
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Joni Dambre from Ghent University reports on the progress in sign language recognition and on the challenges. We still need a whole lot of sign language data to improve our application.
@JoniDambre
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After three years of hard work behind the scenes on our SignON application and service, we have gained better insights into the technical challenges. Our scientific leader, Dr. Dimitar Shterionov, explains in an interview what these challenges are:
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A new video from our serie "SignON Encyclopedia"! We are happy to answer a common question: "Is sign language universal?". Please enjoy watching!
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@adamkosamep
welcomes us! Now let’s attend a series of short presentations, until noon.
#signon
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Last Saturday marked World Deaf Day in Belgium, and SignON hosted an study session and two workshops on sign language technology. The turnout and enthusiasm were truly inspiring, leaving us eager for more. Many thanks to
@DoofVlaanderen
for organising such a fantastic day!
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Now John J. O'Flaherty of MAC is on the floor, talking about the SignON Mobile App we've all been looking forward to! We will be releasing the app publicly at the end of June, so we are really looking forward to getting your impressions after this release!
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Please join us at a workshop at
@DeafVillageIrel
& learn more about our project, as well as the opportunities & limitations of machine translation and sign languages. Register here -
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Now presenting: Aditya Parikh (Radboud University) on Automatic Speech Recognition
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'The data bottleneck in sign language research is often reduced to “there is not enough data” but the situation is a lot more nuanced than that' - Caro Brosens (
@VGTCentrum
) explains the challenges with sign language data.
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Opening presentations by
@DShterionov
(SignON), Eleni Efthimiou (
@EASIERproject
), and Krishna Chandramouli (
@COST_CA19142
) - introducing three projects exploring new approaches to sign language technologies and digital accessibility.
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We have two new surveys to research about your experience with machine translation applications and we also ask about the situations in which you think these applications could be useful.
Spanish/LSE:
Dutch/NGT:
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SignON is hiring a recent engineering graduate to support UPF-GTI research, development, and innovation tasks within the European SignON project. Details at .
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The SignON team are in Brussels today for the
@EASIERproject
-SignON concertation event to explore the future of sign language technology research in Europe.
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SignON's Scientific Coordinator
@DShterionov
explains the different steps and technologies involved in automatically translating between sign languages and spoken/written languages - the Sign Language Machine Translation (SLMT) pipeline.
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More information about the First International Workshop Automatic Translation for Sign and Verbal Languages
#AT4SVL2021
, see the video and
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Two years have almost passed. Watch the video in International Sign or your in your national sign language for updated information about the SignON project.
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SignON has been recognised at the
@scienceirel
Awards for our work on Engaged Research!
The winners of the SFI Awards for 2023 were announced today. This year’s Awards feature 10 categories, including an inaugural award for Supporting Green Transition. Congratulations to all!
See the full list winners in our news story ⬇️
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Last week the Flemish deaf community is celebrating 15 years of recognition of Flemish Sign Language. Congratulations to all Flemish sign language people!
@adviesvgt
@doofvlaanderen
@vgtc
#15jaarVGT
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Now Aoife Brady (DCU) shows us an overview of the management so far: deliverables, collaboration, challenges, etc. With many thanks to that good management, we can realise our large project with consortium of 17 European partners!
@evenstar77
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Interested in learning more about the SignON Project and keeping up with all of our news and events? Subscribe to our newsletter now!
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Another new SignON paper announcement: "Syntax-aware Transformers for Neural Machine Translation: The Case of Text to Sign Gloss Translation." by Santiago Egea Gómez, Euan McGill, Horacio Saggion. In 14th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA RANLP 2021
#researchpaper
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On the 16th of December,
@mdemeulder
(University of Applied Sciences Utrecht) gave an internal seminar to our consortium. She spoke about Deaf Studies, how it has evolved over the years, and how it can help to provide insights now.
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@FrankiePicron
is discussing the use-cases, goals and objectives that the SignON consortium are working towards.
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