BSL SignBank
The BSL Signbank is a dictionary built from two sources: the BSL Corpus and the British Sign Language/English Dictionary (Brien, 1992). The two resources overlap to a large extent, but not completely. The BSL Signbank was built at the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL) at the University College London and last updated mid-2014.
BSL Signbank includes the signs used to annotate conversation data from Bristol, Birmingham, London and Manchester and those of all signers from the task What's your sign
(see lexical elicitation). Further signs from more regions and tasks are planned to be added. User of the dictionary can also report missing signs which they would like to be added.
| Languages | British Sign Language, English |
|---|---|
| Size | 2500 signs |
| Linguistic Information | Citation form of variants, english translations; after login: Sign Number, ID gloss, Annotation ID Gloss, Phonology, Definitions and Notes |
| Licence | not available |
| Access | Public access via browsable homepage, for more detailed information confirmed registration needed |
| Webpage | https://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk/ |
| Institution | University College London |
Cite as
Fenlon, Jordan, Kearsy Cormier, Ramas Rentelis, Adam Schembri, Katherine Rowley, Robert Adam, & Bencie Woll. (2014). BSL SignBank: A lexical database of British Sign Language (First Edition). London: Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre, University College London.
Articles mentioned above
- David Brien (1992). "Dictionary of British Sign Language/English". 1084 pp. ISBN: 978-0-571-14346-7.
This entry was last modified on 9 January 2023.