Semi-Automatic Annotation of Semantic Relations in a Swiss German Sign Language Lexicon

Ebling, Sarah | Tissi, Katja | Volk, Martin

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:: 31–36
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC
sign-lang ID:: 12010

Content Categories

Languages:: Swiss-German Sign Language
Dictionaries:: DSGS Lexicon

Abstract

We propose an approach to semi-automatically obtaining semantic relations in Swiss German Sign Language (Deutschschweizerische Gebärdensprache, DSGS). We use a set of keywords including the gloss to represent each sign. We apply GermaNet, a lexicographic reference database for German annotated with semantic relations. The results show that approximately 60% of the semantic relations found for the German keywords associated with 9000 entries of a DSGS lexicon also apply for DSGS. We use the semantic relations to extract sub-types of the same type within the concept of double glossing (Konrad 2011). We were able to extract 53 sub-type pairs.

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Sarah Ebling, Katja Tissi, Martin Volk. 2012. Semi-Automatic Annotation of Semantic Relations in a Swiss German Sign Language Lexicon. In Proceedings of the LREC2012 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon, pages 31–36, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{ebling:12010:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Ebling, Sarah and Tissi, Katja and Volk, Martin},
  title     = {Semi-Automatic Annotation of Semantic Relations in a {Swiss} {German} {Sign} {Language} Lexicon},
  pages     = {31--36},
  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/12010.pdf}
}