NEW Shared & Interconnected ASL Resources: SignStream® 3 Software; DAI 2 for Web Access to Linguistically Annotated Video Corpora; and a Sign Bank

Neidle, Carol | Opoku, Augustine | Dimitriadis, Gregory | Metaxas, Dimitris

Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC2018 8th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Involving the Language Community
Venue:: Miyazaki, Japan
Date:: 12 May 2018
Pages:: 147–154
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC 4.0
sign-lang ID:: 18001
ISBN:: 979-10-95546-01-6

Content Categories

Projects:: ASLLRP
Languages:: American Sign Language
Lexical Databases:: ASLLVD
Editors:: SignStream

Abstract

2017 marked the release of a new version of SignStream® software, designed to facilitate linguistic analysis of ASL video. SignStream® provides an intuitive interface for labeling and time-aligning manual and non-manual components of the signing. Version 3 has many new features. For example, it enables representation of morpho-phonological information, including display of handshapes. An expanding ASL video corpus, annotated through use of SignStream®, is shared publicly on the Web. This corpus (video plus annotations) is Web-accessible—browsable, searchable, and downloadable—thanks to a new, improved version of our Data Access Interface: DAI 2. DAI 2 also offers Web access to a brand new Sign Bank, containing about 10,000 examples of about 3,000 distinct signs, as produced by up to 9 different ASL signers. This Sign Bank is also directly accessible from within SignStream®, thereby boosting the efficiency and consistency of annotation; new items can also be added to the Sign Bank. Soon to be integrated into SignStream® 3 and DAI 2 are visualizations of computer-generated analyses of the video: graphical display of eyebrow height, eye aperture, and head position. These resources are publicly available, for linguistic and computational research and for those who use or study ASL.

Keywords

Language documentation and long-term accessibility for sign language data
Computer recognition of sign language and steps towards automatic annotation
Experiences in building sign language corpora
Annotation and Visualization Tools
Linking corpora and lexicons and integrated presentation of corpus and dictionary contents

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Carol Neidle, Augustine Opoku, Gregory Dimitriadis, Dimitris Metaxas. 2018. NEW Shared & Interconnected ASL Resources: SignStream® 3 Software; DAI 2 for Web Access to Linguistically Annotated Video Corpora; and a Sign Bank. In Proceedings of the LREC2018 8th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Involving the Language Community, pages 147–154, Miyazaki, Japan. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{neidle:18001:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Neidle, Carol and Opoku, Augustine and Dimitriadis, Gregory and Metaxas, Dimitris},
  title     = {New shared {\&} interconnected {ASL} resources: {SignStream{\textregistered}} 3 software; {DAI} 2 for web access to linguistically annotated video corpora; and a sign bank},
  pages     = {147--154},
  editor    = {Bono, Mayumi and Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna and Osugi, Yutaka},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2018} 8th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Involving the Language Community},
  maintitle = {11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2018)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Miyazaki, Japan},
  day       = {12},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2018},
  isbn      = {979-10-95546-01-6},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/18001.pdf}
}