Editing SignWriting (section)

== Accessibility ==
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Sutton has released the International SignWriting Alphabet 2010<ref>{{cite web |author = Valerie Sutton |url = http://www.movementwriting.org/symbolbank/ |title = Sutton's SymbolBank: International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA 2010) |publisher = Movementwriting.org |access-date = 2012-05-21 }}</ref> under the [[SIL Open Font License]]. The symbols of the ISWA 2010 are available as individual SVG or as TrueType Fonts.
* [https://github.com/Slevinski/signwriting_2010_fonts SignWriting 2010 Fonts project on GitHub]

Google has released an open type font called Noto Sans SignWriting<ref>{{cite web |title = Noto Sans SignWriting |url = https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+SignWriting?query=signwriting |website = [[Google Fonts]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=entry_detail&uid=wb9v9lchat |title = Noto Sans SignWriting |website = ScriptSource }}</ref> that supports the SignWriting in Unicode 8 (uni8) specification with modifying characters and facial diacritics.

SignWriting is enabled on [[incubator:|Wikimedia Incubator]] with [http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0041.html "The Javascript-based SignWriting Keyboard for Use on Wikimedia and throughout the Web" by Yair Rand].  Test wikis include the [[incubator:Wp/ase|ASL Wikipedia on Incubator]] and the other [[incubator:Category:Incubator:Test wikis of sign languages|test wikis of sign languages]].

The Sutton SignWriting SignMaker ([https://github.com/sutton-signwriting/signmaker @sutton-signwriting/signmaker]) is a sign editor that can be [https://sutton-signwriting.github.io/signmaker/ accessed directly], [https://sutton-signwriting.github.io/signmaker/demo.html embedded in an iFrame], and [https://github.com/sutton-signwriting/signmaker/archive/refs/heads/main.zip downloaded]. It uses both Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW) and SignWriting in Unicode (SWU) character sets, along with the associated style string. See draft-slevinski-formal-signwriting for detailed specification.

For modern web and app development, several packages are available on GitHub and NPM.
* [https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/core/ @sutton-signwriting/core] - a JavaScript package for node and browsers that supports general processing of the Sutton SignWriting script
* [https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/unicode8 @sutton-signwriting/unicode8] - a JavaScript package for processing SignWriting in Unicode 8 (uni8) characters
* [https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/font-ttf @sutton-signwriting/font-ttf] - a JavaScript package for the web components and browser that generates SVG and PNG images for individual symbols, complete signs, and vertical paragraphs
* [https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/font-db @sutton-signwriting/font-db] - a JavaScript package for node that generates SVG and PNG images for individual symbols, complete signs, and vertical paragraphs
* [https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/sgnw-components @sutton-signwriting/sgnw-components] - a JavaScript package of [[Web Components]] for individual symbols, symbol palettes, complete signs, and vertical paragraphs
* [https://github.com/sutton-signwriting/signmaker @sutton-signwriting/signmaker] - a JavaScript package for sign editing page with URL parameters and iFrame messaging

For sign language translation, SignWriting text is a useful abstraction layer between video and the natural language processing of sign language.<ref>{{cite arXiv
  |author1 = Kayo Yin
  |author2 = Amit Moryossef
  |author3 = Julie Hochgesang
  |author4 = Yoav Goldberg
  |author5 = Malihe Alikhani
  |title   = Including Signed Languages in Natural Language Processing
  |year    = 2021
  |class   = cs.CL
  |eprint  = 2105.05222
}}</ref>
The usefulness of SignWriting in natural language processing was validated with a new method of machine translation that has achieved over 30 [[BLEU]].<ref>{{cite arXiv
  |author1 = Zifan Jiang
  |author2 = Amit Moryossef
  |author3 = Mathias Müller
  |author4 = Sarah Ebling
  |title   = Machine Translation between Spoken Languages and Signed Languages Represented in SignWriting
  |year    = 2022
  |class   = cs.CL
  |eprint  = 2210.05404
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
  |author = Zifan Jiang
  |url    = https://www.cl.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:8e88f217-a8f2-47bf-80a2-6d56265652ac/Masterarbeit_Zifan_Jiang.pdf
  |title  = Machine Translation between Spoken Languages and Signed Languages in Written Form
}}</ref>
The conversion of sign language video to SignWriting text is an emerging field with open source options.<ref>{{cite web
  |author = Amit Moryossef
  |url    = https://sign-language-processing.github.io/
  |title  = Sign Language Processing
}}</ref>

Additional machine learning projects are available for handwriting recognition of SignWriting, SignWriting to spoken language, and spoken language to SignWriting.<ref>{{cite web
  |author = Steve Slevinski
  |url    = https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/#machine-learning
  |title  = Sutton SignWriting Machine Learning
}}</ref>