Signs and Synonymity: Continuing Development of the Multilingual Sign Language Wordnet
Schulder, Marc 
| Bigeard, Sam | Kopf, Maria | Hanke, Thomas | Kuder, Anna | Wójcicka, Joanna | Mesch, Johanna | Björkstrand, Thomas | Vacalopoulou, Anna | Vasilaki, Kyriaki | Goulas, Theodoros | Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita | Efthimiou, Eleni
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the LREC-COLING 2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources
- Venue:
- Torino, Italy
- Date:
- 25 May 2024
- Pages:
- 281–291
- Publisher:
- ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)
- License:
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- sign-lang ID:
- 24034
- ACL ID:
- 2024.signlang-1.38
- ISBN:
- 978-2-493814-30-2
Content Categories
- Projects:
- DGS-Korpus project, EASIER, ViCom
- Languages:
- British Sign Language, German Sign Language, Swiss-German Sign Language, Greek Sign Language, French Sign Language, Sign Language of the Netherlands, Polish Sign Language, Swedish Sign Language, English
- Lexical Databases:
- Multilingual Sign Languages Wordnet
Abstract
The Multilingual Sign Language Wordnet is the first publicly available wordnet resource for sign languages. It is a growing multilingual resource providing data for eight sign languages to date. During the initial phase of its creation, the focus lay on producing the infrastructure to support various languages and to produce initial sets of content for them. This article represents the start of the second phase, in which the focus is moved to establishing overlapping coverage across the different sign languages. Building on the data produced so far, a new feature to assist annotation is introduced which leverages established partial synonymy between signs (inter- and cross-lingually) to discover likely additional synonymies. Other improvements to the annotation interface and workflow build directly on the experiences from the first phase. Working with the updated annotation interface, new data is produced for Polish Sign Language, Greek Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language.Document Download
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Marc Schulder, Sam Bigeard, Maria Kopf, Thomas Hanke, Anna Kuder, Joanna Wójcicka, Johanna Mesch, Thomas Björkstrand, Anna Vacalopoulou, Kyriaki Vasilaki, Theodoros Goulas, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Eleni Efthimiou. 2024. Signs and Synonymity: Continuing Development of the Multilingual Sign Language Wordnet. In Proceedings of the LREC-COLING 2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources, pages 281–291, Torino, Italy. ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL).BibTeX Export
@inproceedings{schulder:24034:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Schulder, Marc and Bigeard, Sam and Kopf, Maria and Hanke, Thomas and Kuder, Anna and W{\'o}jcicka, Joanna and Mesch, Johanna and Bj{\"o}rkstrand, Thomas and Vacalopoulou, Anna and Vasilaki, Kyriaki and Goulas, Theodoros and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Efthimiou, Eleni},
title = {Signs and Synonymity: Continuing Development of the Multilingual Sign Language Wordnet},
pages = {281--291},
editor = {Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Mesch, Johanna and Schulder, Marc},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC-COLING} 2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources},
maintitle = {2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC-COLING} 2024)},
publisher = {{ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)}},
address = {Torino, Italy},
day = {25},
month = may,
year = {2024},
isbn = {978-2-493814-30-2},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/24034.pdf}
}