Abstract
Gesture based communication called Sign Language (SL) is the fundamental
communication channel between hard of hearing individuals. Communication
through signing is a visual motion dialect. Hard of hearing individuals use gesture
based communication as their primary medium for correspondence. Different
countries have their own sign language as the United States of America has
American Sign Language (ASL), China has Chinese Sign Language (CSL), India
has Indian Sign Language (ISL), and similarly Pakistan has Pakistan Sign
Language (PSL). Most of the developed nations have addressed the issues of their
hearing impaired people by launching projects involving Information Technology
to reduce this gap between a deaf and a normal person. In central and south Asia, a
considerable work has been conducted on ISL and CSL. However, Pakistan Sign
Language is a linguistically under-investigated in the absence of any structured
information about the language contents, grammar, and tools and services for
communication. Hence, the major contributions of this research are to highlight
the challenges to bridge this communication gap for Pakistani deaf community by
using the existing literature, and to propose an Information Technology based
architectural framework to identify major components to build applications which
may help bridging the gap between the deaf and normal people of the country.
Nabeel Sabir Khan, Adnan Abid, Kamran Abid, Uzma Farooq, Muhammad Shoaib Farooq, Hamza Jameel. (2015) Speak Pakistan: Challenges in Developing Pakistan Sign Language using Information Technology, South Asian Studies, Volume 30, Issue 2.
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