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Linking Lexical and Corpus Data for Sign Languages: NGT Signbank and the Corpus NGT

Crasborn, Onno | Bank, Richard | Zwitserlood, Inge | van der Kooij, Els | Schüller, Anique | Ormel, Ellen | Nauta, Ellen Yassine | van Zuilen, Merel | van Winsum, Frouke | Ros, Johan

Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC2016 7th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining
Venue:: Portorož, Slovenia
Date:: 28 May 2016
Pages:: 41–46
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC 4.0
sign-lang ID:: 16023

Content Categories

Languages:: Sign Language of the Netherlands
Corpora:: Corpus NGT
Lexical Databases:: Global Signbank - NGT

Abstract

How can lexical resources for sign languages be integrated with corpus annotations? We answer this question by discussing an increasingly frequent scenario for sign language resources, where the lexical data are stored in an online lexical database that may also serve as a sign language dictionary, while the annotation data are offline files in the ELAN Annotation Format (EAF). There is by now broad consensus on the need for ID-glosses in corpus annotation, which in turn requires having at least a list of ID-glosses with a description of the phonological form and meaning of the signs. There is less of a consensus on standards for glossing, on practices of sign lemmatisation, and on the types of information that need to be stored in the lexical database. This paper contributes to the establishment of standards for sign language resources by discussing how two data resources for Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) are currently being integrated, using the ELAN annotation software for corpus annotation and an adaptation of the Auslan Signbank software as a lexical database. We discuss some of the present relations between two large NGT data sets, and outline some future developments that are foreseen.

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@inproceedings{crasborn:16023:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Crasborn, Onno and Bank, Richard and Zwitserlood, Inge and van der Kooij, Els and Sch{\"u}ller, Anique and Ormel, Ellen and Nauta, Ellen Yassine and van Zuilen, Merel and van Winsum, Frouke and Ros, Johan},
  title     = {Linking Lexical and Corpus Data for Sign Languages: {NGT} {Signbank} and the {Corpus} {NGT}},
  pages     = {41--46},
  editor    = {Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2016} 7th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining},
  maintitle = {10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2016)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Portoro{\v z}, Slovenia},
  day       = {28},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/16023.pdf}
}

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