doug@feedme.UUCP (Doug Salot) (07/18/88)
Path: feedme!doug From: Doug Salot <doug@feedme.UUCP> Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: ASL notation Date: Sun, 3 Jul 88 14:47 EDT References: <19880701045915.0.NICK@INTERLAKEN.LCS.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: Doug Salot <doug@feedme.UUCP> Organization: Feedme Microsystems, Orange County, CA Lines: 14 hayes.pa@XEROX.COM writes: >On dance notation: >A quick suggestion for a similar but perhaps even thornier problem: a notation >for the movements involved in deaf sign language. I'm not sure how this would benefit the deaf community, as most signers are quite capable of reading written language, however work has been done to "quantize" ASL. Look to the work of Poizner, Bellugi, et al at the Salk Institute for suggested mappings between several movement attributes (planar locus, shape, iteration freq., etc) and language attributes (case, number, etc.). --- Doug Salot || doug@feedme.UUCP || ...{trwrb,hplabs}!felix!dhw68k!feedme!doug "Thinking: The Thinking Man's Sport"