slevinski/apitxt

The ApiTxt Project is a custom build environment for the development of SignPuddle 3 and other RESTful APIs.

apitxt's Issues

Shapes in signmaker not centered

The individual shapes are left-top aligned. As the window gets larger, they stay there, leaving a lot of white space in each cell, right and below.

Distinguishing left and right hands in SignWriting

Since this is a question on its own, I am creating a different thread where we can share thoughts on this regard.

Original answer

If you hover over the symbol, it will give you the UTF-32 code.

Or you can cross-reference the column and row with the starting value.

In the first graphic, the starting point is U+40001. For the first symbol is column +0 and row +0. So the code point is U+40001.

The second graphic is still column +0, but row +8. The same starting point, so the code point is U+40009.

With signs written from the signer's perspective, the first symbol would be the right hand and the second would be the left hand.

However, you can not assume that the top is always right and the bottom is always left. Take for example the symbol is column +10 and row +8. This would have a code point of U+40019.

This hand can be either left or right. For certain hand shapes and fills and positions, the left and right hands can use the same symbol.

I did a quick search for signs using U+40001 and signs using U+40008. There is some overlap of the signs, but not all. Just to illustrate some of the signs in question.

Originally posted by @Slevinski in #1 (comment)

Error starting SignPuddle 3 Portable System

After following the README, the requests fail with this message:

$ ./start_system.sh 
./start_system.sh: línea 1: ifconfig: no se encontró la orden
PHP 7.0.33-0+deb9u3 Development Server started at Tue Jul  2 14:54:07 2019
Listening on http://0.0.0.0:8888
Document root is /tmp/apitxt
Press Ctrl-C to quit.
[Tue Jul  2 14:54:12 2019] PHP Warning:  Unknown: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
[Tue Jul  2 14:54:12 2019] PHP Fatal error:  Unknown: Failed opening required '/tmp/apitxt/rewrite.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0

Client shows wrong symbols in dictionary entries

Configuration

• Chrome or Firefox latest version
• MacOS Mojave latest
• OS set in English

Repro

When selecting the US language in the client and searching at this url, the following appears:

The SignWriting symbols do not appear correctly :(

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More info

The F12 console does not show any error.

[Question] Separating symbols for the two hands

I am conducting a research project about the possibility to reconstruct the full sign flow from the single knowledge of the sign flow coming from one hand. The v0.1 release has the research overview paper you can read to get more info 😄

Question

What I need to do is basically building a dictionary og signs where I can extract the dominant hand flow. I had a look at the JSON being returned by the REST API and there seems not to be such information captured there: only the full flow can be found, which means I will manually need to add these entries.

1. Can you confirm this?
2. Any pointer to ease the process?
   • Fx: could you suggest me the 200 most frequent signs I can start from?

Thanks

Datasets ?

SignPuddle looks super exciting.
There has been a number of successful experiments on automatic language translation, including from small corpus, in particular https://ai.facebook.com/research/no-language-left-behind/ .
Are there texts in SignPuddle that are available for free, at least for people who would like to provide free translation from/to SignPuddle ?
Thanks for any feedback.

Where can I find the Unicode sheet for all symbols in FSW/USW?

I am struggling to find the latest version of the Unicode sheet reporting all symbols' codes.

Reason

I am conducting a research where I need to strip, from every sign in a limited set (300 most used signs), the information about the non-dominant hand from the temporal sequence.

In order to do that I need to complete sheet of symbols in SW so I know where I can remove what from the sequence.

Thanks