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Researcher works on sign language video dictionary
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Mark Pratt

Boston - Even though Joan Nash has been using American Sign Language for most of her life and has made a career of teaching deaf and hearing impaired children, she is sometimes stumped when she encounters a sign she has never seen.

She can't just look it up in a dictionary. At least not yet.

Nash, a doctoral student at Boston University, is part of a team working on an interactive video project that would allow someone to demonstrate a sign in front of a camera, and have a computer program interpret and explain its meaning.

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