Projects
SignON - Sign Language Translation Mobile Application and Open Communications Framework KU Leuven
Nowadays any communication barrier is detrimental to society. This project will research and develop the SignON communication service that uses machine translation to translate between Sign and spoken languages. This service will facilitate the exchange of information among deaf and hard of hearing, and hearing individuals. In this user-centric and community-driven project we will tightly collaborate with European deaf and hard of hearing ...
Deaf sign language + right: sign language, equal opportunities and sustainable development Ghent University
Deaf sign language deaf + + equal sign language: sign language, equal opportunities and sustainable development Flemish government
What with Sign Language? A longitudinal investigation into the language development of young deaf children with a cochlear implant (CI) Ghent University
This study investigates the language development of congenitally deaf chidren who receive a CI in the first year of life. Four questions are addressed: (1) how does the deaf child with CI develop Dutch, (2) and Flemish Sign Language, (3) what is the relationship between these two languages, and (4) what is the influence of communication choice on language development?
Legitimizing elite multilingualism: Language policy, language practice and meta-pragmatic awareness in the international school University of Antwerp
#AboutVGTInVGT - Science communication on the Flemish Sign Language Research Ghent University
In the past two decades, pioneering and high-quality research into the linguistic structure of Flemish Sign Language (VGT) has been carried out in Flanders, including at Ghent University. This resulted in academic publications, but the results rarely reached the target audience, namely deaf signers in Flanders. The valorisation project #AboutVGTInVGT aims to provide an answer to this through online social anchoring. The aim is to bring all ...
Take Signing to the Child. On the Parental Use of Visual Communication Strategies, and Deaf ChildrenU+2019s Visual Communication and Early Flemish Sign Language. Ghent University
This dissertation wants to deliver an original contribution to the existing national and international Sign Language Acquisition and Assessment research, mainly in four domains:
First, the exploratory case study is the first detailed description of a moderately deaf childU+2019s Flemish Sign Language development, with native exposure to Flemish Sign Language (VGT) from birth up to the age of 24 months. Remarkable linguistic and ...
Representation Learning for Sign Language Translation Using Linguistic and Knowledge-based Constraints KU Leuven
This PhD project is an integral part of the Horizon 2020 research project SignON, which unites 17 European partners in a research project that aims to facilitate the exchange of information among deaf and hard of hearing, and hearing individuals across Europe by developing automatic sign language translation tools. Recent machine learning methods based on neural transformer architectures have greatly improved the state-of-the art in natural ...
A descriptive study of linguistic interpreting strategies in Dutch - Flemish Sign Language interpreting. Exploring interpreters' perspectives to understand the what, how and why. KU Leuven
Research topic
This study sets out to explore linguistic interpreting strategies used by Flemish Sign Language (VGT) interpreters in a monologic simultaneous interpreting setting (Dutch - VGT). It aims to describe the strategic behaviour of interpreters as reflected in their linguistic actions. This focus on the linguistic decision-making process is combined with a desire to understand what motivates the behaviour. Hence the study ...
Linguistic aspects of Flemish Sign Language – a further exploration KU Leuven
Linguistic research on Flemish Sign Language started around 1990, however, Flemish Sign Language still is one of the underdescribed signed languages. More research is most important, for example to support teaching activities related to Flemish Sign Language. Signed language research has both societal and scientific relevance, the study of signed languages complements the study of spoken languages and as such forms an important part of the ...