Segmentation of continuous sign language : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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Segmentation of continuous sign language : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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Sign language is a natural language of deaf people comprising of hand gestures, facial expressions and body postures. It has all the constituents that are normally attributed to a natural language, such as variations, lexical/semantic processes, coarticulations, regional dialects, and all the linguistic features required for a successful communication. However, sign language is an alien language for a vast majority of the hearing community so there is a large communication barrier between bot...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

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2014

Creator

Khan, Shujjat

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https://hdl.handle.net/10179/6945

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New Zealand sign language / Translating / Interpreting / Machine translating / Research Subject Categories::INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS::Human communication / Engineering

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