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- Limsi is a pluridisciplinary research lab
of CNRS.
Among its research fields, there is everything about
the sciences and technologies
of languages, whether they are spoken, written or signed.
Limsi is more specifically involved in subprojects
that are about the production of language resources,
or corpus, and the development of modules
of automatic treatment.
The goal is to automatize the production of subtitles
adapted to deaf and hard of hearing people
and also to produce a translation in LSF, French Sign Language,
for deaf people who speak it as their first language
and for whom it will be more accessible than subtitling.
We are more specifically involved in sub-projects 3 and 5.
Subproject 3 is a module that is going to take as input
a television show in the form of video
and is going to produce captions.
Subproject 5 takes this caption
and produces an LSF translation
in the form of an animated avatar.
So far, we have done basic bricks.
For subproject 3, it's essentially
a brick that allows the transcription of speech
from a television program video,
and also a brick that starts from this transcript
to make a simplified version
in the form of subtitles.
Subproject 5 is a much more exploratory work,
the automatic treatment of sign languages
being much more recent.
So we basically participated in making a sign language corpus
that will be used
to generate animations.
And then also, we have developed an intermediary representation
that is going to be a pivot between subtitling and avatar animation control.
Now, we are going to complete and put together
these basic bricks to have modules
that work from end to end, and then we are going to evaluate these modules
and integrate all of them into a final demonstrator.
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