Decoding Sign Languages: The SL-FE Framework for Phonological Analysis and Automated Annotation

Şahin, Karahan | Gökgöz, Kadir

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:: 326–333
Publisher:: ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)
License:: CC BY-NC 4.0
sign-lang ID:: 24040
ACL ID:: 2024.signlang-1.37
ISBN:: 978-2-493814-30-2

Content Categories

Languages:: Turkish Sign Language
Dictionaries:: Contemporary Turkish Sign Language Dictionary
Automatic Processing:: SL-FE Framework

Abstract

A novel framework for theory-driven annotation and analysis for Sign Languages. This framework provides both continuous representations for phonological information and discrete labels for annotating sign language videos. With this framework, we were able to derive a phonological phenomenon, namely Dominance, and Symmetry by defining a ranking function for calculating phonological complexity and resulting in high-accuracy retrieval for Turkish Sign Language (TID).

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Karahan Şahin, Kadir Gökgöz. 2024. Decoding Sign Languages: The SL-FE Framework for Phonological Analysis and Automated Annotation. In Proceedings of the LREC-COLING 2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources, pages 326–333, Torino, Italy. ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL).

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@inproceedings{sahin:24040:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {{\c S}ahin, Karahan and G{\"o}kg{\"o}z, Kadir},
  title     = {Decoding Sign Languages: The {SL-FE} Framework for Phonological Analysis and Automated Annotation},
  pages     = {326--333},
  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/24040.pdf}
}