Research Topics
- Collection and maintenance of large scale signed resources
- Annotation and processing of sign language data
- Sign language based interfaces for deaf education and communication
- Synthetic signing
- Sign language recognition and information retrieval from signed content by applying neural networks
- Development of annotated sign language resources for sign language linguistics research
- Development of annotated sign language resources for machine learning algorithms training
- Sign language Machine Translation
(Co)organizing of distinguished scientific events
LREC Workshops series on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (2008- todate) – the biannual Sign Language Technologies Research meeting point
Invited sessions in International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII) series (2005-todate)
Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology Symposium 2013 (DePaul University, Chicago ΙL, USA).
Conference/Workshop proceedings and selected paper collections
Proceedings of LREC Workshops series on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (2008-σήμερα)
- Wolfe, E. Efthimiou, J. Glauert, T. Hanke, J. McDonald, J. Schnepp (Eds). Recent advances in sign language translation. Special Issue, Universal Access In the Information Society Vol. 15 (2016). Springer. https://link.springer.com/journal/10209/15/4/page/1
- Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction and Embodied Communication, Springer LNCS 7206, ISBN: 978-3-642-34181-6 (Print) 978-3-642-34182-3 (Online), GW-2011 Revised Selected Papers, available at: http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-34181-6
- Efthimiou, S-E. Fotinea, J. Glauert (Eds). Emerging Technologies for Deaf Accessibility in the Information Society Special Issue, Universal Access In the Information Society Vol. 6, (2008). Springer. https://link.springer.com/journal/10209/6/4/page/1