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Nice to "meet" you too! I once narrowly missed a chance to try to meet SW researchers in Rome (it turned out that I was passing through Rome in August, when most people are away). I hope I will get a second chance some day. I will save the samples my students produce for that class later this month, and pass them on to you electronically. Best, Erika On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Fabrizio Borgia <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > 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. > > [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