Asian Signbank
The Asian Signbank is a lexical database constructed in the context of the Asia-Pacific Sign Linguistics Research and Training Program
to store signs collected within the project.
A wide range of linguistic information is given for each sign, using a phonetic notational system based on Brenatri's Prosodic Model (Brentari, 1998). Signs can be searched with different combinations of linguistic features.
| Languages | Sri Lankan Sign Language, Jakarta Sign Language, Yogyakarta Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language, Hong Kong Sign Language, Ho Chi Minh City Sign Language, Yangon Sign Language, English |
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| Size | 4750 signs |
| Linguistic Information | Sign ID, citation form, gloss in English and other language(s) with grammatical category, handshape, country or/and city the sign belongs to, sign category (three categories: monomorphemic, bimorphemic, polymorphemic), sign type (five types: 1-handed, 2-handed type 1, 2-handed type 2, 2-handed type 3, 2-handed) |
| Licence |
Asian Signbank licence 
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| Access |
Public access via browsable homepage for 4750 signs
Confirmed registration needed for advanced functions and further information Via personal contact further transcribed data can be asked for |
| Webpages |
http://www.cslds.org/asb/welcome.jsp
http://cslds.org/asiansignbank/
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| Institution | Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Publications |
Sze et al. (2012)
See http://www.cslds.org/v4/publications.php
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Cite as
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References
Primary references
- Felix Sze, James Woodward, Gladys Tang, Jafi Lee, Ka-Yiu Cheng, Joe Mak (2012). "Sign Language Documentation in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Deaf-centred approach". In: Proceedings of the LREC2012 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon (Istanbul, Turkey). Ed. by Onno Crasborn, Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch. Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 155-158.
References to other works
- Diane Brentari (1998). "A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology". 408 pp. ISBN: 978-0-262-02445-7.
This entry was last modified on 27 March 2025.