SignON - Sign Language Translation Mobile Application and Open Communications Framework

SignON was a user-centric and community-driven project designed to facilitate information exchange among deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing individuals across Europe. The project targeted Irish, British, Dutch, Flemish, and Spanish Sign Languages, as well as English, Irish, Dutch, and Spanish oral languages.

The research team at TU Dublin was responsible for developing the linguistically motivated natural language processing (NLP) layer for sign language. The TU Dublin Blanchardstown Campus provided an interface between the natural language understanding (NLU) component and the sign language realization (SLR) component, enabling machine translation capability between verbal and sign languages.