3rd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages:

Construction and Exploitation of Sign Language Corpora

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PROGRAMME (June 1st, 2008)

Where available, you find the slides/posters as PDF links below. The full papers have been published in the LREC 2008 proceedings (Workshops>W25).

08:45-09:00Workshop opening & welcome [PDF]
09:00-09:30Diane Lillo-Martin, Deborah Chen Pichler: Development of sign language acquisition corpora [PDF]
09:30-10:00Onno Crasborn, Inge Zwitserlood: The Corpus NGT: an online corpus for professionals and laymen [PDF]
10:00-10:30Trevor Johnston: Corpus linguistics & signed languages: no lemmata, no corpus. [PDF]
10:30-11:00Coffee break
11:00-11:30Lorraine Leeson, Brian Nolan: Digital Deployment of the Signs of Ireland Corpus in Elearning [PDF]
11:30-12:00Johanna Mesch, Lars Wallin: Use of sign language materials in teaching [PDF]
12:00-13:30Poster session (see below)
13:30-14:30Lunch break
14:30-16:00Poster session (contd., see below)
16:00-16:30Coffee break
16:30-17:00Elena Antinoro Pizzuto, Isabella Chiari, Paolo Rossini: The Representation Issue and its Multifaceted Aspects in Constructing Sign Language Corpora: Questions, Answers, Further Problems
17:00-17:30Onno Crasborn: Open Access to Sign Language Corpora [PDF]
17:30-18:00Adam Schembri: British Sign Language Corpus Project: Open Access Archives and the Observer’s Paradox
18:00-18:30Cat Fung H-M, Scholastica Lam, Felix Sze, Gladys Tang: Simultaneity vs. Sequentiality: Developing a transcription system of Hong Kong Sign Language acquisition data [PDF]
18:30-18:50General discussion
18:50-19:00Workshop closing [PDF]

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

  • Patricia Álvarez Sánchez, Inmaculada C. Báez Montero, Ana Mª Fernández Soneira: Linguistic, sociological and technical difficulties in the development of a Spanish Sign Language (LSE) corpus [PDF] [PDF]
  • Louise de Beuzeville: Pointing and verb modification: the expression of semantic roles in the Auslan Corpus
  • Cat Fung H-M, Scholastica Lam, Joe Mak, Gladys Tang: Establishment of a corpus of Hong Kong Sign Language acquisition data: from ELAN to CLAN [PDF]
  • Emilie Chételat-Pelé, Annelies Braffort, Jean Véronis: Annotation of Non Manual Gestures: Eyebrow movement description
  • Onno Crasborn, Han Sloetjes: Enhanced ELAN functionality for sign language corpora [PDF]
  • Philippe Dreuw, Hermann Ney: Towards Automatic Sign Language Annotation for the ELAN Tool [PDF]
  • Paul Dudis, Kristin Mulrooney, Clifton Langdon, Cecily Whitworth: Annotation for Depicting Real Space Blends [PDF]
  • Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea: Annotation and Management of the Greek Sign Language Corpus (GSLC) [PDF]
  • Thomas Hanke, Jakob Storz: iLex – A database tool integrating sign language corpus linguistics and sign language lexicography [PDF]
  • Annika Herrmann: Sign language corpora and the problems with ELAN and the ECHO annotation conventions [PDF]
  • Jens Heßmann, Meike Vaupel: Building up digital video resources for sign language interpreter training [PDF]
  • Marek Hrúz, Pavel Campr: Semi-automatic Annotation of Sign Language Corpora [PDF]
  • Jakub Kanis, Pavel Campr, Marek Hrúz, Zdeněk Krňoul, Miloš Železný: Interactive HamNoSys Notation Editor for Signed Speech Annotation [PDF]
  • Lutz König, Susanne König, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer: Corpus-based Sign Dictionaries of Technical Terms – Dictionary Projects at the IDGS in Hamburg [PDF]
  • Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, Tommi Jantunen, Ritva Takkinen, Päivi Rainò, Antti Raike: Content-based video analysis and access for Finnish Sign Language – a multidisciplinary research project [PDF]
  • Klaudia Krammer, Elisabeth Bergmeister, Silke Bornholdt, Franz Dotter, Claus Liebenberger, Christian Hausch, Marlene Hilzensauer, Anita Pirker, Andrea Skant, Natalie Unterberger: The Klagenfurt lexicon database for sign languages as a web application: A free sign language database for international use [PDF]
  • François Lefebvre-Albaret, Frederick Gianni, Patrice Dalle: Toward an automatic segmentation of sign language corpora
  • Cédric Moreau, Bruno Mascret: LexiqueLSF
  • Yuji Nagashima, Mina Terauchi, Kaoru Nakazono: Construction of Japanese Sign Language Dialogue Corpus: KOSIGN
  • Victoria Nyst: Documenting an Endangered Language: Creating a Corpus of Langue des Signes Malienne (CLaSiMa)
  • Siegmund Prillwitz, Thomas Hanke, Susanne König, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer, Arvid Schwarz: DGS corpus project – Development of a corpus based electronic dictionary German Sign Language / German [PDF]
  • Sandrine Schwartz: Tactile sign language corpora: capture and annotation issues
  • Jérémie Segouat, Annelies Braffort, Laurence Bolot, Annick Choisier, Michael Filhol, Cyril Verrecchia: Building 3D French Sign Language lexicon [PDF]
  • Saori Tanaka, Yosuke Matsusaka: Interface Development for sign language as second language: mobile version of CASLL
  • Inge Zwitserlood, Asli Özyürek, Pamela Perniss: Annotation of sign and gesture cross-linguistically [PDF]