A hybrid formalism to parse sign languages

Dubot, Rémi | Collet, Christophe

Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC2014 6th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel
Venue:: Reykjavik, Iceland
Date:: 31 May 2014
Pages:: 43–48
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC 4.0
sign-lang ID:: 14006

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Projects:: Dicta-Sign
Languages:: French Sign Language

Abstract

Sign Language (SL) linguistic is dependent on the expensive task of annotating. Some automation is already available for low-level information (eg. body part tracking) and the lexical level has shown significant progresses. The syntactic level lacks annotated corpora as well as complete and consistent models. This article presents a solution for the automatic annotation of SL syntactic elements. It exposes a formalism able to represent both constituency-based and dependency-based models. The first enables the representation of structures one may want to annotate, the second aims at fulfilling the holes of the first. A parser is presented and used to conduct two experiments on the solution. One experiment is on a real corpus, the other is on a synthetic corpus.

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Rémi Dubot, Christophe Collet. 2014. A hybrid formalism to parse sign languages. In Proceedings of the LREC2014 6th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel, pages 43–48, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{dubot:14006:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Dubot, R{\'e}mi and Collet, Christophe},
  title     = {A hybrid formalism to parse sign languages},
  pages     = {43--48},
  editor    = {Crasborn, Onno and Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2014} 6th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel},
  maintitle = {9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2014)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Reykjavik, Iceland},
  day       = {31},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2014},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/14006.pdf}
}