SignON: Bridging the gap between Sign and Spoken Languages

This article presents an overview of the SignON European project which aims to develop technology for automatic translation between sign and oral lan- guages (and vice-versa). In order to achieve this objective, the project takes a multi-disciplinary approach by involving the deaf community, sign language lin- guistics, research in sign language recognition, speech recognition, natural language processing and machine translation (MT), 3D animation and avatar technology, and application development. The project follows a user-centered, community driven approach to the development of technology.