A Proposal for Making Corpora More Accessible for Synthesis: A Case Study Involving Pointing and Agreement Verbs

Wolfe, Rosalee | McDonald, John C. | Toro, Jorge | Schnepp, Jerry

Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC2012 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon
Venue:: Istanbul, Turkey
Date:: 27 May 2012
Pages:: 163–166
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC
sign-lang ID:: 12006

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Languages:: American Sign Language
Corpora:: ASLLRP

Abstract

Sign language corpora serve many purposes, including linguistic analysis, curation of endangered languages, and evaluation of linguistic theories. They also have the potential to serve as an invaluable resource for improving sign language synthesis. Making corpora more accessible for synthesis requires geometric as well as linguistic data. We explore alternate approaches and analyze the tradeoffs for the case of synthesizing indexing and agreement verbs. We conclude with a series of questions exploring the feasibility of utilizing corpora for synthesis.

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Rosalee Wolfe, John C. McDonald, Jorge Toro, Jerry Schnepp. 2012. A Proposal for Making Corpora More Accessible for Synthesis: A Case Study Involving Pointing and Agreement Verbs. In Proceedings of the LREC2012 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon, pages 163–166, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{wolfe:12006:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Wolfe, Rosalee and McDonald, John C. and Toro, Jorge and Schnepp, Jerry},
  title     = {A Proposal for Making Corpora More Accessible for Synthesis: A Case Study Involving Pointing and Agreement Verbs},
  pages     = {163--166},
  editor    = {Crasborn, Onno and Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2012} 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon},
  maintitle = {8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2012)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Istanbul, Turkey},
  day       = {27},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2012},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/12006.pdf}
}