DW-DGS
The Digitales Wörterbuch DGS (DW-DGS) is a corpus-based dictionary of DGSGerman Sign Language/German. The dictionary is built by the DGS-Korpus project at the Institute of German Sign Language (IDGS), Universität Hamburg. Its content is primarily based on the DGS Corpus, but also uses information collected through the online survey DGS-Feedback (Wähl et al., 2018) and the elicitation tool SignHunter (Hanke et al., 2020).
At the time of writing creation of the dictionary was still ongoing, so only a selection of pre-release entries is shown and the layout is not yet finalised. The dictionary is regularly updated with more signs. Signs can be searched by ID, form aspects (handshape, handedness and location), German keywords, subject groups, and via a visual graph of relatedness attributes. Signs are represented on these pages by an animated image and an ID.
| Languages | German Sign Language, German |
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| Size | 1113 entries comprising 1524 sign variants |
| Linguistic Information | ID, citation form, senses, regional distribution, related signs, similar signs, homonyms, antonyms and authentic samples, linked to the KWICkeyword in context view of transcripts in the DGS Corpus. |
| Licence |
DW-DGS Licence 
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| Access | Public access via browsable homepage |
| Webpages |
Webpage (URL): https://dw-dgs.de
Webpage (DOI): https://doi.org/10.25592/dgs.dwdgs
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| Institution | Universität Hamburg |
| Publications |
Langer et al. (2024)
https://dgs-korpus.de/publications.html?topic=lexicography_dictionary
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Cite as
Langer, G., Müller, A., Wähl, S., Otte, F., Sepke, L., Hanke, T. Digitales Wörterbuch der Deutschen Gebärdensprache. Das korpusbasierte Wörterbuch DGS – Deutsch. [Dataset: Living document]. Universität Hamburg. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25592/dgs.dwdgs
Gabriele Langer, Anke Müller, Sabrina Wähl, Felicitas Otte, Lea Sepke, Thomas Hanke (2024). "Introducing the DW-DGS – The Digital Dictionary of DGS". In: Proceedings of the LREC-COLING 2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources (Torino, Italy). Ed. by Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Johanna Mesch, Marc Schulder. Paris, France: ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL), pp. 316-325. ISBN: 978-2-493814-30-2. ACL: 2024.signlang-1.21.
References
Primary references
- Gabriele Langer, Anke Müller, Sabrina Wähl, Felicitas Otte, Lea Sepke, Thomas Hanke (2024). "Introducing the DW-DGS – The Digital Dictionary of DGS". In: Proceedings of the LREC-COLING 2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources (Torino, Italy). Ed. by Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Johanna Mesch, Marc Schulder. Paris, France: ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL), pp. 316-325. ISBN: 978-2-493814-30-2. ACL: 2024.signlang-1.21.
- Sabrina Wähl, Gabriele Langer, Anke Müller (2018). "Hand in Hand - Using Data from an Online Survey System to Support Lexicographic Work". In: Proceedings of the LREC2018 8th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Involving the Language Community (Miyazaki, Japan). Ed. by Mayumi Bono, Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch, Yutaka Osugi. Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 199-206. ISBN: 979-10-95546-01-6.
- Thomas Hanke, Elena Jahn, Sabrina Wähl, Oliver Böse, Lutz König (2020). "SignHunter – A Sign Elicitation Tool Suitable for Deaf Events". In: Proceedings of the LREC2020 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives (Marseille, France). Ed. by Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch. Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 83-88. ISBN: 979-10-95546-54-2. ACL: 2020.signlang-1.13.
This entry was last modified on 7 March 2025.