Asia Signopedia: An open information system of Asian sign languages

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Wong, Kai-Hung Ken^a | Tang, Gladys^a | Chung, Ronald^{b; *}

Affiliations: [a] Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | [b] Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: rchung@cuhk.edu.hk.

Abstract: To promote deaf awareness and natural sign language in Asia, we created an open platform named "Asia Signopedia". The web page allowed both deaf and hearing people to input and access entries of different Asian sign languages and their dialects in either video or text mode. This paper describes how the data structure and user interface of the web page were designed. The distributive authoring scheme of the web page allowed the database to be input and corrected by those who used it.

Keywords: Sign language, database, Wikipedia, multi-modality

DOI: 10.3233/TAD-2011-0330

Journal: Technology and Disability, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 233-242, 2011