In this paper we discuss some of the major issues linked to the unwritten status of signed languages and to the inadequacy of the notation and transcription tools that are most widely used. Drawing on previous and ongoing research, we propose that the development of a written form appears to be necessary for defining more appropriate representational tools for research purposes.
Elena Antinoro Pizzuto, Paolo Rossini, Tommaso Russo. 2006. Representing Signed Languages in Written Form: Questions that Need to be Posed. In Proceedings of the LREC2006 2nd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Lexicographic Matters and Didactic Scenarios, pages 1–6, Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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@inproceedings{pizzuto:06001:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Pizzuto, Elena Antinoro and Rossini, Paolo and Russo, Tommaso},
title = {Representing Signed Languages in Written Form: Questions that Need to be Posed},
pages = {1--6},
editor = {Vettori, Chiara},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2006} 2nd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Lexicographic Matters and Didactic Scenarios},
maintitle = {5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2006)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Genoa, Italy},
day = {28},
month = may,
year = {2006},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/06001.pdf}
}