Swiss German Sign Language Lexicon
The Lexicon of Swiss German Sign Language is arranged into different sub-lexicons. Two of them, containing 685 technical terms in the domains of nutrition and economy, are described in more detail. The lexicon was built at the University of Zurich under the lead of Penny Boyes-Braem.
Signs can be searched by German keywords, by domain restrictions, by a given status (used, known, new) or by glosses.
To automatically obtain candidates for semantic relations in DSGSSwiss-German Sign Language the German-language wordnet Germanet 
(Hamp and Feldweg, 1997) was linked to the DSGSSwiss-German Sign Language lexicon (see Ebling et al., 2012).
| Languages | Swiss-German Sign Language, German |
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| Size | 9000 signs |
| Linguistic Information | For 3000 signs: citation form, meaning, morphological and syntactic characteristics, usage, drawings, HamNoSys and SignWriting transcription, German translations |
| Licence | Individual license agreement may be possible |
| Access | Temporarily unavailable at the time of writing |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
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References
Primary references
- Sarah Ebling, Katja Tissi, Martin Volk (2012). "Semi-Automatic Annotation of Semantic Relations in a Swiss German Sign Language Lexicon". 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. 31-36.
References to other works
- Birgit Hamp, Helmut Feldweg (1997). "GermaNet - a Lexical-Semantic Net for German". In: Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Automatic Information Extraction and Building of Lexical Semantic Resources for NLP Applications (Madrid, Spain). Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 9-15.
This entry was last modified on 27 March 2025.