Modeling French Sign Language: a proposal for a semantically compositional system

Hadjadj, Mohamed Nassime | Filhol, Michael | Braffort, Annelies

Volume:: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)
Venue:: Miyazaki, Japan
Date:: 7 to 12 May 2018
Pages:: 4253–4258
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Licence:: CC BY-NC 4.0
ACL ID:: L18-1671
ISBN:: 979-10-95546-00-9

Content Categories

Languages:: French Sign Language
Corpora:: 40 brèves
Writing Systems:: AZee

Abstract

The recognition of French Sign Language (LSF) as a natural language in 2005 created an important need for the development of tools to make information accessible to the deaf public. With this prospect, the goal of this article is to propose a linguistic approach aimed at modeling the French sign language. We first present the models proposed in computer science to formalize the sign language (SL). We also show the difficulty of applying the grammars originally designed for spoken languages to model SL. In a second step, we propose an approach allowing to take into account the linguistic properties of the SL while respecting the constraints of a modelisation process. By studying the links between semantic functions and their observed forms in Corpus, we have identified several production rules that govern the functioning of the LSF. We finally present the rule functioning as a system capable of modeling an entire utterance in French Sign Language.

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Mohamed Nassime Hadjadj, Michael Filhol, Annelies Braffort. 2018. Modeling French Sign Language: a proposal for a semantically compositional system. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), pages 4253–4258, Miyazaki, Japan. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{hadjadj-etal-2018-modeling:lrec,
  author    = {Hadjadj, Mohamed Nassime and Filhol, Michael and Braffort, Annelies},
  title     = {Modeling {F}rench {S}ign {L}anguage: a proposal for a semantically compositional system},
  pages     = {4253--4258},
  editor    = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and Choukri, Khalid and Cieri, Christopher and Declerck, Thierry and Goggi, Sara and Hasida, Koiti and Isahara, Hitoshi and Maegaard, Bente and Mariani, Joseph and Mazo,  H{\'e}l{\`e}ne and Moreno, Asuncion and Odijk, Jan and Piperidis, Stelios and Tokunaga, Takenobu},
  booktitle = {11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2018)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Miyazaki, Japan},
  day       = {7--12},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2018},
  isbn      = {979-10-95546-00-9},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/L18-1671}
}