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Leap Motion is the Next Step Forward in Sign Language
Blog November 1, 2017

Leap Motion is the Next Step Forward in Sign Language

When it comes to improved technology and gadgets to help people with various disabilities, science has come a long way and made it possible for over hundreds of thousands of people to lead a better and easier life. From home robots that help you to make a doctor’s appointment to…

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Man in VR talking to therapist
Blog October 22, 2017

Best Assistive Technology for Persons with Disabilities

When it comes to talking about Assistive Technology (AT), particularly for people with disabilities (PwD) of a varying spectrum, most people, at first, think of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) in a classroom like setting, but it is so much more than that. Over the years, with the improvement and…

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Virtual Conversation Agent (avatar) for Sign Language
Blog July 16, 2017

Virtual Conversational Agent (avatar) for Sign Language

Sign language (SL) was first acknowledged as a separate language only in the 1960s. Similar to spoken language, it evolved from different cultural backgrounds. Every country has its own sign language with various dialects, which are based on different rules than the spoken language.

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The Third International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics (ACLing2017)
Blog May 29, 2017

The Third International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics (ACLing2017)

CALL FOR PAPERS The Third International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics (ACLing2017) Dubai, UAE, 5-6 November 2017 Website: http://www.Acling2017.org Publiction: Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER

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EUROLAN-2017 – Summer School on Biomedical Text Processing
Blog May 27, 2017

EUROLAN-2017 – Summer School on Biomedical Text Processing

EUROLAN-2017 – Summer School on Biomedical Text Processing 10 – 17 September 2017, Constanța, Romania http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2017/ The 13th in the series of EUROLAN Schools

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The 3rd Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology (MUMTTT 2017)
Blog May 27, 2017

The 3rd Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology (MUMTTT 2017)

http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/europhras2017/mumttt-2017/ In conjunction with EUROPHRAS 2017 – International Conference “Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology: Recent advances and interdisciplinary approaches”

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PhD Defence Dr. Achraf Othman
Blog May 18, 2017

PhD Defense: “Machine Translation for Sign Language based on Statistical Approach“

I am happy to report that on March 10, 2017, I had my doctoral dissertation defense, as part of the WebSign project, and that the committee found my research to be worthy. My dissertation was titled “Machine Translation for Sign Language based on Statistical Approach” and was based on translation between…

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AlecsoApps Award Dubai 2016
Conferences & Missions November 19, 2016

AlecsoApps Award Ceremony – Dubai 2016

The second edition of AlecsoApps Award was held in Dubai on November 19, 2017. It was organised by ALECSO and TRA authority in UAE. The Award covers four categories which are Education, Culture, Science and Educational Games.

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6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility
Call for Papers October 30, 2016

6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility ICTA 2017

ICTA is a bi-annual international conference on ICT & Accessibility. The sixth edition of ICTA 2017 will be held in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, and organized under the auspices of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) with the…

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ENIT Event Deep Learning Machine Learning
Conferences & Missions October 12, 2016

Keynote Speaker in the ENIT Event “Journée de Modélisation”

   

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