Center for Human Modeling and Simulation
Document Type
Conference Paper
Date of this Version
5-2008
Publication Source
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)
Volume
1
Issue
1
Start Page
1
Last Page
27
DOI
10.1145/1296843.1296879
Abstract
We discuss important factors in the design of evaluation studies for systems that generate animations of American Sign Language (ASL) sentences. In particular, we outline how some cultural and linguistic characteristics of members of the American Deaf community must be taken into account so as to ensure the accuracy of evaluations involving these users. Finally, we describe our implementation and user-based evaluation (by native ASL signers) of a prototype ASL generator to produce sentences containing classifier predicates, frequent and complex spatial phenomena that previous ASL generators have not produced.
Copyright/Permission Statement
© ACM 2008. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1361203.1361206
Keywords
american sign language, animation, natural language generation, evaluation, accessibility technology for the deaf
Recommended Citation
Huenerfauth, M., Zhao, L., Gu, E., & Allbeck, J. M. (2008). Evaluating American Sign Language Generation Through the Participation of Native ASL Signers. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), 1 (1), 1-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1296843.1296879
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Date Posted: 13 January 2016