Acknowledgements
This project has received funding from the European Commission within Horizon 2020 Reflective Society 2015, Research and Innovation actions, grant agreement No 693349.
We would also like to acknowledge the following people and organizations:
- the Centre for Sign Linguistics & Deaf Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong for the creation of the handshape font (http://www.cslds.org/v4/resources.php?id=1);
- the Dutch Sign Centre for their permission to use the handshape images and the image of the locations of the five deaf schools;
- the Signbank team from the Radboud University Nijmegen for providing access to the NGT dataset, and for publishing their dataset under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. I also want to thank Richard Bank for bringing up the idea to use the photos from Signbank;
- the Corpus NGT team from the Radboud University Nijmegen for their great work in composing and maintaining the corpus materials, and publishing it open access;
- Vadim Kimmelman, Ellen Nauta, Door Spruijt and Inge Zwitserlood for giving me permission to reprint some of their images;
- the websites/tools VLC mediaplayer, ELAN, FreeConvert.com;
- our colleague Marijke Scheffener: Marijke, bedankt voor het zijn van het gezicht in zoveel foto’s en video’s, en voor al je feedback op onze presentaties en filmpjes in NGT.