SignWeaver: Digital Platform to Support the Dissemination of Libras-Portuguese Bilingual Glossaries
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https://doi.org/10.5753/rbie.2019.27.03.212Keywords:
Sign language, Libras, Bilingual glossaries, Digital platformAbstract
This work addresses the development of a digital platform, called SignWeaver, which supports the dissemination and maintenance of bilingual glossaries Libras-Portuguese. In general, technical-scientific vocabularies are scarce in the vernaculars of the major sign languages of the world. In this context, deaf students, interpreters, and teachers strive to create terminological neologisms or term-signs in such areas, usually through the organization of local discussion committees, composed of deaf community members directly involved. Often, through this type of approach, it can be seen that completely different signals can be attributed to the same technical concept, making it difficult to communicate in Libras between members of different regions and communities. In this scenario, the main contribution of this work is to provide an original platform for agglutinating the term-signs created by the deaf community and, currently, dispersed in different databases by the different regions of Brazil, facilitating the dissemination, adoption and eventual standardization of the term-signs throughout the national territory. For the development of SignWeaver, the PHP and JavaScript languages were used, as well as two frameworks for software development, namely the Laravel framework, which is fundamental for the development of the modules of the platform that manages the data (back-end side) and the Ionic framework for developing front-end side modules. SignWeaver ’s features were successfully validated by 65 members of the deaf community, mostly deaf and Libras interpreters, and 87.7% of these potential users were satisfied with the proposed platform, accrediting it as a tool to be potentially used by the deaf community.
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