Development of an “Integrative System for Korean Sign Language Resources”

Hong, Sung-Eun | Won, Seongok | Heo, Il | Lee, Hyunhwa

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:: 75–78
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC 4.0
sign-lang ID:: 18031
ISBN:: 979-10-95546-01-6

Content Categories

Languages:: Korean Sign Language
Corpora:: KSL Corpus

Abstract

In 2015, the KSL Corpus Project started to create a linguistic corpus of the Korean Sign Language (KSL). The collected data contains about 90 hours of sign language videos. Almost 17 hours of this sign language data has been annotated in ELAN, a professional annotation tool developed by the Max-Planck-Institute of Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. In the first phase of annotation the research project faced three major difficulties. First there was no lexicon or lexical database available that means the annotators had to list the used sign types and link them with video clips showing the sign type. Second, having numerous annotators it was a challenge to manage and distribute the hundreds of movies and ELAN files. Third it was very difficult to control the quality of the annotation. In order to solve these problems the “Integrative System for Korean Sign Language Resources” was developed. This system administrates the signed movies and annotations files and also keeps track of the lexical database. Since all annotation files are uploaded into the system, the system is also able to manipulate the ELAN files. For example, tags are overwritten in the annotation when the name of the type has changed.

Keywords

Annotation and Visualization Tools
Linking corpora and lexicons and integrated presentation of corpus and dictionary contents

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Sung-Eun Hong, Seongok Won, Il Heo, Hyunhwa Lee. 2018. Development of an “Integrative System for Korean Sign Language Resources”. In Proceedings of the LREC2018 8th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Involving the Language Community, pages 75–78, Miyazaki, Japan. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{hong:18031:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Hong, Sung-Eun and Won, Seongok and Heo, Il and Lee, Hyunhwa},
  title     = {Development of an ``Integrative System for {Korean} {Sign} {Language} Resources''},
  pages     = {75--78},
  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/18031.pdf}
}