This report presents a method of building corpuses of dialogue in Japanese Sign Language (JSL) and the results of the analysis in co- occurrences of manual and non-manual signals using the corpus. We have built the sign dialogue corpus by video recording the dialogues between native JSL speakers. The purpose of building corpus is deriving electronic dictionaries such as morphological dictionary, different meaning word dictionary, allomorph dictionary and example dictionary. Example sentences are recorded for every word (key sign) those were recorded in the sign language word data base KOSIGN Ver.2. Until now, we were able to confirm a correlation of manual and non-manual signals or a characteristic appearance of sign language dialogue. As a result of the analysis, the pointing occurred to the end of sentence at high frequency. It suggested that pointing be one of the ends of sentence, and clarified the role as the conjunctive pronoun. The co-occurrence relation between the manual and non-manual signals acquired confirmed an important role to make the meaning of the expression sign language limited was achieved. Moreover, "Roll shift" and "Sandwich construction" that was the linguistic feature of sign language were confirmed, too. These information is necessary for the hearing person to study sign language.
Yuji Nagashima, Mina Terauchi, Kaoru Nakazono. 2008. Construction of Japanese Sign Language Dialogue Corpus: KOSIGN. In Proceedings of the LREC2008 3rd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Construction and Exploitation of Sign Language Corpora, pages 141–144, Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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@inproceedings{nagashima:08019:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Nagashima, Yuji and Terauchi, Mina and Nakazono, Kaoru},
title = {Construction of {Japanese} {Sign} {Language} Dialogue Corpus: {KOSIGN}},
pages = {141--144},
editor = {Crasborn, Onno and Efthimiou, Eleni and Hanke, Thomas and Thoutenhoofd, Ernst D. and Zwitserlood, Inge},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2008} 3rd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Construction and Exploitation of Sign Language Corpora},
maintitle = {6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2008)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Marrakech, Morocco},
day = {1},
month = jun,
year = {2008},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/08019.pdf}
}