SCOPE AND AIMS
Workshops on sign language representation and processing at the last day of LREC are now becoming a tradition:
At LREC 2004 in Lisbon, the series started with a workshop dedicated to sign notation and sign writing as well as image processing.
In 2006, at LREC in Genova, the focus was on information technology in learning sign language or learning with sign language.
At the third incarnation of this workshop in Marrakesh in 2008, the focus already was on corpora.
At LREC 2010 in Malta, we had another workshop with more than 100 participants focussing on corpora.
At LREC 2012 in Istanbul, we narrowed the focus a bit down to one of the hot topics in discussions on sign language corpora: The interactions between corpus and lexicon.
At LREC 2014 in Reykjavik, we had another workshop focussing on specific aspects of sign language corpora: How to deal with anything except the manual channel.
At LREC 2016 in Portorož, the focus was on Corpus Mining.
At LREC 2018 in Miyazaki, the hot topic was Involving the Language Community.
At LREC 2020 in Marseille, the hot topic was Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives.
At LREC 2022 in Marseille, the hot topic was Multilingual Sign Language Resources.
In the upcoming LREC-COLING 2024 in Torino, the hot topic is Evaluation of Sign Language Resources.
All sign language papers of this workshops series as well as main conference papers dealing with sign language can be found in the sign-lang@LREC Anthology.
Proceedings volumes of the workshops are all available online:
- O. Streiter, C. Vettori (2004, Eds.) From SignWriting to Image Processing. Information techniques and their implications for teaching, documentation and communication. [Proceedings of the Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004, Lisbon.] Paris: ELRA.
- C. Vettori (2006, Ed.) Lexicographic Matters and Didactic Scenarios. [Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006, Genova.] Paris: ELRA.
- O. Crasborn, E. Efthimiou, T. Hanke, E. Thoutenhoofd, I. Zwitserlood (2008, Eds.) Construction and Exploitation of Sign Language Corpora. [Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008, Marrakech.] Paris: ELRA.
- P. Dreuw, E. Efthimiou, T. Hanke, T. Johnston, G. Martínez Ruiz, A. Schembri (2010, Eds.) Corpora and Sign Language Technologies. [Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta.] Paris. ELRA.
- O. Crasborn, E. Efthimiou, S.-E. Fotinea, T. Hanke, J. Kristoffersen, J. Mesch (2012, Eds.) Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon [Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.] Paris. ELRA.
- O. Crasborn, E. Efthimiou, E. Fotinea, T. Hanke, J. Hochgesang, J. Kristoffersen, J. Mesch (2014, Eds.) Beyond the Manual Channel [Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland.] Paris. ELRA.
- E. Efthimiou, S.-E. Fotinea, T. Hanke, J. Hochgesang, J. Kristoffersen, J. Mesch (2016, Eds.) Corpus Mining [Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016, Portorož, Slovenia.] Paris. ELRA.
- M. Bono, E. Efthimiou, S.-E. Fotinea, T. Hanke, J. Hochgesang, J. Kristoffersen, J. Mesch, Y. Osugi (2018, Eds.) Involving the Language Community [Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018, Miyazaki, Japan.] Paris. ELRA.
- E. Efthimiou, S.-E. Fotinea, T. Hanke, J. Hochgesang, J. Kristoffersen, J. Mesch (2020, Eds.) Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives [Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2020, Marseille, France.] Paris. ELRA.
- E. Efthimiou, S.-E. Fotinea, T. Hanke, J. Hochgesang, J. Kristoffersen, J. Mesch, M. Schulder (2022, Eds.) Multilingual Sign Language Resources [Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2022, Marseille, France.] Paris. ELRA.
