Sign Language Corpus Annotation: toward a new Methodology

Chételat-Pelé, Emilie | Braffort, Annelies

Volume:: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008)
Venue:: Marrakech, Morocco
Date:: 26 May to 1 June 2008
Pages:: 668–671
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC
ACL ID:: L08-1468
ISBN:: 978-2-9517408-4-6

Content Categories

Languages:: French Sign Language
Corpora:: Corpus LS-Colin

Abstract

This paper deals with non manual gestures annotation involved in Sign Language within the context of automatic generation of Sign Language. We will tackle linguistic researches in sign language, present descriptions of non manual gestures and problems lead to movement description. Then, we will propose a new annotation methodology, which allows non manual gestures description. This methodology can describe all Non Manual Gestures with precision, economy and simplicity. It is based on four points: Movement description (instead of position description); Movement decomposition (the diagonal movement is described with horizontal movement and vertical movement separately); Element decomposition (we separate higher eyelid and lower eyelid); Use of a set of symbols rather than words. One symbol can describe many phenomena (with use of colours, height...). First analysis results allow us to define precisely the structure of eye blinking and give the very first ideas for the rules to be designed. All the results must be refined and confirmed by extending the study on the whole corpus. In a second step, our annotation will be used to produce analyses in order to define rules and structure definition of Non Manual Gestures that will be evaluate in LIMSIs automatic French Sign Language generation system.

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Emilie Chételat-Pelé, Annelies Braffort. 2008. Sign Language Corpus Annotation: toward a new Methodology. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), pages 668–671, Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{chetelat-pele-braffort-2008-sign:lrec,
  author    = {Ch{\'e}telat-Pel{\'e}, Emilie and Braffort, Annelies},
  title     = {Sign Language Corpus Annotation: toward a new Methodology},
  pages     = {668--671},
  editor    = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and Choukri, Khalid and Maegaard, Bente and Mariani, Joseph and Odijk, Jan and Piperidis, Stelios and Tapias, Daniel},
  booktitle = {6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2008)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Marrakech, Morocco},
  day       = {26},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2008},
  isbn      = {978-2-9517408-4-6},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/168_paper.pdf}
}