Glossing a multi-purpose sign language corpus

Ormel, Ellen | Crasborn, Onno | van der Kooij, Els | van Dijken, Lianne | Nauta, Ellen Yassine | Forster, Jens | Stein, Daniel

Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC2010 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies
Venue:: Valletta, Malta
Date:: 22 and 23 May 2010
Pages:: 186–191
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC
sign-lang ID:: 10036

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Languages:: Sign Language of the Netherlands
Corpora:: Corpus NGT

Abstract

This paper describes the strategies that have been developed for creating consistent gloss annotations in the latest update to the Corpus NGT. Although the project aims to embrace the plea for ID-glosses in Johnston (2008), there is no reference lexicon that could be used in the creation of the annotations. An idiosyncratic strategy was developed that involved the creation of a temporary ‘glossing lexicon’, which includes conventions for distinguishing regional and other variants, true and apparent homonymy, and other difficulties that are specifically related to the glossing of two-handed simultaneous constructions on different tiers.

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Ellen Ormel, Onno Crasborn, Els van der Kooij, Lianne van Dijken, Ellen Yassine Nauta, Jens Forster, Daniel Stein. 2010. Glossing a multi-purpose sign language corpus. In Proceedings of the LREC2010 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies, pages 186–191, Valletta, Malta. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{ormel:10036:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Ormel, Ellen and Crasborn, Onno and van der Kooij, Els and van Dijken, Lianne and Nauta, Ellen Yassine and Forster, Jens and Stein, Daniel},
  title     = {Glossing a multi-purpose sign language corpus},
  pages     = {186--191},
  editor    = {Dreuw, Philippe and Efthimiou, Eleni and Hanke, Thomas and Johnston, Trevor and Mart{\'i}nez Ruiz, Gregorio and Schembri, Adam},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2010} 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies},
  maintitle = {7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2010)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Valletta, Malta},
  day       = {22--23},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/10036.pdf}
}