Automatic translation from signed to spoken languages is an interdisciplinary research
domain on the intersection of computer vision, machine translation (MT), and linguistics …

This paper presents a critical examination of key concepts in the study of (signed and
spoken) language and multimodality. It shows how shifts in conceptual understandings of …

In the last few years, researchers have begun to study novel human communication systems
in the laboratory (Experimental Semiotics, ES). The first goal of this article is to provide a …

En este trabajo se abordan dos dimensiones sobre las lenguas de signos interrelacionadas:
su estudio científico y su estatus social y legal. En primer lugar se traza la trayectoria de la …

Some conceptual metaphors common in spoken languages are infelicitous in sign
languages. The explanation suggested in this article is that the iconicity of these signs …

This paper presents an automatic translation system of gestures of the manual alphabets in
the Arabic sign language. The proposed Arabic Sign Language Alphabets Translator …

While much research has taken place on language attitudes and ideologies regarding
spoken languages, research that investigates sign language ideologies and names them as …

In the last few years, researchers have begun to investigate the emergence of novel forms of
human communication in the laboratory. I survey this growing line of research, which may be …

This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are
challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the …

We address the issue of deixis–anaphora in sign language (SL) discourse, focusing on the
role of eye-gaze. According to the Semiological Approach, SL structuring stems from a …