Following the example of other sign language researchers, we are creating a Signbank, a usage-based lexical database, to maintain consistent and systematic annotation information for American Sign Language (ASL). This tool, which will be available to the public, is currently being used in conjunction with an on-going effort to prepare corpora of sign language acquisition to share with the research community. This paper will briefly report on the development of the ASL Signbank, focusing on the adopted lemmatization principles. Lemmatization of ASL signs has never been done on a scale like this before - one that has been continually refreshed by actual usage data.
Keywords
Language documentation and long-term accessibility for sign language data
Proposals for standards for linguistic annotation or for metadata descriptions
Linking corpora and lexicons and integrated presentation of corpus and dictionary contents
@inproceedings{hochgesang:18048:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Hochgesang, Julie A. and Crasborn, Onno and Lillo-Martin, Diane},
title = {Building the {ASL} {Signbank}: Lemmatization Principles for {ASL}},
pages = {69--74},
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/18048.pdf}
}
| Lillo-Martin, Diane