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Dear Erika, nice to "meet" you, and thanks for your help! Those texts would be VERY useful for us! The provenance and the meaning of a SW text have little importance for our OGR engine. We, as developers, can of course keep in mind that a particular corpus was produced by SW novice and evaluate the consequences: e.g. we expect a lesser variety of glyphs from a novice writer, and a greater one by an expert. Your help is very welcome, and we'd be grateful to run our OGR on your datasets! 2013/10/29 Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway <[log in to unmask]> > Do you have any criteria about the provenance of the handwriting samples? > I teach a linguistic anthropology course at Oberlin about Literacies. I > spend one week teaching them about SW and having them produce short texts - > we are having that class meeting later this month. These are hearing > students who generally know little about sign languages - I introduce them > to SW to help expand their notion of what can be written. Sometimes I ask > them to write a simple ASL sample, but sometimes I have them write > co-speech gestures. Would texts like these - produced by total novices, not > necessarily of a SL - be useful? Because if so, I'm happy to share the > batches I generate each time I teach this course. But I can imagine they > might not be what you're looking for :) > Best, > Erika > > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Fabrizio Borgia < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> I'd like to take a moment to explain the work of my team (Université >> Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Computer Science Department - "Sapienza" >> University of Rome) in the latest few years. >> We are working at a *Optical Glyph Recogition* (OGR) engine for >> SignWriting. >> >> Well, OGR sounds very much like OCR (which is Optical Character >> Recognition) because they both share the same goal: *the conversion of >> images of text into characters*. In the OGR case, the characters are the >> glyphs. >> Apart from the goal, OGR and OCR have very little in common. The design >> and the implementation of our application is somewhat different from the >> standard OCR design, because we are facing different problems, and >> different datasets. >> >> We know that there's a huge amount of handwritten SW corpora, scattered >> around the world, and we believe that they carry an invaluable knowledge, >> both for the Deaf Community, and for the Research Community. Our goal is to >> make them digital, to *empower their diffusion*, and to *ensure a >> long-lasting existence* for them. >> >> After a very, very thorough design phase, we are developing the OGR >> application (and, in confidence, we are about halfway to go) and *soon >> we will release a footage showing our software in action*. >> >> To make our OGR stronger, we need to test it with diffrent datasets (SW >> texts, pages, etc.) we need your help, dear SW list! >> *We need any kind of handwritten SW texts, in any digital image format. >> >> * >> *Optionally, we'd like them to be: >> * >> >> - *written in columns* >> - *whithout any segmentation (annotation lines, squares, etc.) from >> one sign to the following one >> * >> >> Anyone can send us some material (even spare pages will DEFINITLEY do) or >> point us in the right direction? >> Thanks in advance for your time, from Rome! >> >> -- >> Fabrizio Borgia, M.D. >> >> Ph.D. Student >> Sapienza - Università di Roma >> Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier >> >> O&M SW Engineering Intern >> SERCO S.p.A. >> >> [log in to unmask] >> [log in to unmask] >> [log in to unmask] >> ________________________________________________ >> >> SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION >> >> Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator [log in to unmask] >> >> Post Messages to the SignWriting List: [log in to unmask] >> >> SignWriting List Archives & Home Page >> http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist >> >> Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages >> http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1 >> >> > > > -- > Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway > Assistant Professor of Anthropology > Oberlin College > ________________________________________________ > > SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION > > Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator [log in to unmask] > > Post Messages to the SignWriting List: [log in to unmask] > > SignWriting List Archives & Home Page > http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist > > Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages > http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1 > > -- Fabrizio Borgia, M.D. Ph.D. Student Sapienza - Università di Roma Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier O&M SW Engineering Intern SERCO S.p.A. 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