What is the Multilingual Sign Languages Wordnet?
This is an ongoing effort to build wordnet structures for several sign languages and connect them with each other and with the Open Multilingual Wordnet. It was started as part of the EASIER project and is now continuing to grow after the project's completion. The goal of this multi-lingual wordnet is to establish meaning-based structures for representing sign languages and connecting signs across languages based on their shared meanings.
The current release covers German Sign Language, Greek Sign Language, British Sign Language, Sign Language of the Netherlands, French Sign Language, Swiss German Sign Language, Swedish Sign Language and Polish Sign Language. It contains 24,367 links between 14,028 signs and 16,534 synsets. It is a work in progress and the coverage for individual languages is still limited. For more information, see EASIER report D6.5
Publication / How to cite
When referencing the Multilingual Sign Language Wordnet, please cite one of the following:- Marc Schulder, Sam Bigeard, Maria Kopf, Thomas Hanke, Anna Kuder, Joanna Wójcicka, Johanna Mesch, Thomas Björkstrand, Anna Vacalopoulou, Kyriaki Vasilaki, Theodore Goulas, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea and Eleni Efthimiou. 2024. Signs and Synonymity: Continuing Development of the Multilingual Sign Language Wordnet. In Proceedings of the LREC-COLING2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources, pages 281–291, Turin, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). URL: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/24034.html
- Sam Bigeard, Marc Schulder, Maria Kopf, Thomas Hanke, Kiki Vasilaki, Anna Vacalopoulou, Theodoros Goulas, Athanasia-Lida Dimou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, and Eleni Efthimiou. 2022. Introducing Sign Languages to a Multilingual Wordnet: Bootstrapping Corpora and Lexical Resources of Greek Sign Language and German Sign Language. In Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, pages 9–15, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). URL: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/22036.html