Making Dictionaries of Technical Signs: from Paper and Glue through SW-DOS to SignBank

Roald, Ingvild

Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC2004 Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: From SignWriting to Image Processing. Information techniques and their implications for teaching, documentation and communication
Venue:: Lisbon, Portugal
Date:: 30 May 2004
Pages:: 75–78
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC
sign-lang ID:: 04014

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Languages:: Correct Norwegian Sign Language, Norwegian
Writing Systems:: SignWriting

Abstract

Teaching mathematics and physics in upper secondary school for the deaf since 1975, this author has felt the need to collect signs for the various concepts. In the beginning illustration of signs were pasted into a booklet. Then SignWriting appeared, and signs were hand-written and later typed into the booklet. With the 3.1 version of SignWriter, the dictionary program appeared, and several thematic dictionaries were made. With the new SignBank program, there are new opportunities, and I can fill in what I before just had to code. Last year a Fulbright research fellow and myself were collecting signs for mathematics, and these are transferred into a SignBank file. From that file various ways of sorting and analysing is possible. Here these various stages are presented, with a focus especially on the SignBank and the opportunities and limitations that are present in this program.

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Ingvild Roald. 2004. Making Dictionaries of Technical Signs: from Paper and Glue through SW-DOS to SignBank. In Proceedings of the LREC2004 Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: From SignWriting to Image Processing. Information techniques and their implications for teaching, documentation and communication, pages 75–78, Lisbon, Portugal. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{roald:04014:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Roald, Ingvild},
  title     = {Making Dictionaries of Technical Signs: from Paper and Glue through {SW-DOS} to {SignBank}},
  pages     = {75--78},
  editor    = {Streiter, Oliver and Vettori, Chiara},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2004} Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: From {SignWriting} to Image Processing. Information techniques and their implications for teaching, documentation and communication},
  maintitle = {4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2004)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Lisbon, Portugal},
  day       = {30},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2004},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/04014.pdf}
}