Introducing the DW-DGS – The Digital Dictionary of DGS

Langer, Gabriele; Müller, Anke; Wähl, Sabrina; Otte, Felicitas; Sepke, Lea; Hanke, Thomas

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Introducing the DW-DGS – The Digital Dictionary of DGS

Langer, Gabriele | Müller, Anke | Wähl, Sabrina | Otte, Felicitas | Sepke, Lea | Hanke, Thomas

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:: 316–325
Publisher:: ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)
License:: CC BY-NC 4.0
sign-lang ID:: 24039
ACL ID:: 2024.signlang-1.21
ISBN:: 978-2-493814-30-2

Abstract

This article describes the lexical resource DW-DGS – the first corpus-based digital dictionary of German Sign Language (DGS). Basic information is provided on dictionary type, context of compilation, sign representation in the product, metalanguage, dictionary content, information types displayed in entries, and dictionary structure. The article also provides an overview on data sources, methods, workflow procedures, and tools used in the lexicographic process. Challenges of making a corpus-based sign language dictionary and solutions developed for the DW-DGS are mentioned. The aim of this contribution is to provide an overview on the resource. It also serves as a starting point by referring to papers that describe the structures and procedures of the DW-DGS in more depth.

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@inproceedings{langer:24039:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Langer, Gabriele and M{\"u}ller, Anke and W{\"a}hl, Sabrina and Otte, Felicitas and Sepke, Lea and Hanke, Thomas},
  title     = {Introducing the {DW-DGS} -- The Digital Dictionary of {DGS}},
  pages     = {316--325},
  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/24039.pdf}
}

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