Research Fellows
Sam Bigeard
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Sam Bigeard is a research fellow on the EU-project EASIER - Intelligent Automatic Sign Language Translation. They work on semantic and language data acquisition. They have studied linguistics with a focus on natural language processing at Sorbonne Université in Paris.
Maria Kopf
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Maria Kopf is a research fellow on the EU-project EASIER - Intelligent Automatic Sign Language Translation. Her area of work includes the harmonization of language data and the approach to gender in translation.
Rosalee Wolfe
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Rosalee Wolfe was a research fellow with the project from August till November 2017, where she was mainly engaged with avatar technology for sign languages.
Tsubasa Uchida
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We welcome our international guest Tsubasa Uchida from Japan, who is currently visiting IDGS for 6 months, primarily to conduct research with us in collaboration with the DGS corpus project. Tsubasa works for the NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories in Tokyo and is creating a corpus with his team, developed from motion capture data, to generate avatar-based messages in Japanese Sign Language. With standardized weather reports, among other things, various avatar formats are bringing more accessibility to Japanese media.