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====== Annelies Braffort ======

**CNRS Research Director**\\

**Research topics**: Modelling and Automatic Processing of Sign Language, from corpus linguistics to artificial intelligence.

** Research questions** : 
  * How can sign languages be analysed, represented and processed ? 
  * How can we take into account the specific linguistic characteristics linked to their visual-gestural nature (multilinearity, spatialisation, iconicity)? 
  * What types of approach are possible with little French sign language (LSF) data? 

** Research work ** :
  * Corpus of LSF: constitution, annotation, analysis
    * Nature of the data: video, motion capture (mocap)
    * Multidisciplinary studies: computer science (analysis and synthesis), linguistics, movement sciences, movement perception 
  * Linguistic modelling to represent the functioning of LSF
    * Levels: articulatory, gestural unit, more complex structures
    * Articulators: hands/arms, bust, shoulders, head, face, facial elements (eyebrows, eyes, cheeks, mouth), gaze 
  * Animation of virtual signers and generation of speech in LSF
    * Creation of animations by rotoscopy, mocap or synthesis
    * Generation of statements from predefined animations 
  * Analysis of LSF videos
    * Annotation assistance
    * Automatic recognition 

**Publications** sur [[https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/annelies-braffort |HAL]] - **Corpora** sur [[https://www.ortolang.fr/market/search?filters=%7B%22type%22:%22Corpus%22%7D&content=braffort|Ortolang]].


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