SignaMed
SignaMed is a bilingual dictionary of medical terms in LSESpanish Sign Language and Spanish. It is organised around medical concepts, each represented by a Spanish word and one or more LSESpanish Sign Language signs, plus definitions and example utterances in LSESpanish Sign Language and Spanish for a portion of concepts. The dictionary can be accessed either via an index of Spanish words or a video-based search of LSESpanish Sign Language signs. The video search is based on automatic recognition of isolated signs and limited to signs for which enough training data was available. The Spanish index can be filtered according to text search, by thematic categories and by factors such as the availability of definitions, examples or video recognition. Registered users can also donate sign recordings they produce during search or through gamified elicitation tasks to improve the sign recognition and coverage of synonymous signs further.
SignaMed is developed at the University of Vigo by the AtlanTTic Research Center and Translation and Linguistic Department, lead by José Luis Alba-Castro.
| Languages | Spanish Sign Language, Spanish |
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| Size | 373 reference signs corresponding to 312 health terms, plus 273 definitions and 120 usage examples in LSESpanish Sign Language. |
| Linguistic Information | Citation forms, translations into Spanish, concept-specific sign synonymy, definitions in LSE and Spanish, usage examples in LSE and Spanish. |
| Licence | information not available |
| Access | The dictionary and its search feature are publicly accessible. A free user account must be created to access some features, such as bookmarks and games, elicitation tasks and other functionality centred around the donation of recordings. |
| Webpages |
Project: https://signamed.uvigo.es/ 
Lexicon: https://signamed.web.app/
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| Institution | University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain |
| Publications |
https://signamed.uvigo.es/diseminacion/
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Cite as
Manuel Vázquez-Enríquez, José Luis Alba-Castro, Ania Pérez-Pérez, María del Carmen Cabeza-Pereiro, Laura Docío-Fernández (2024). "SignaMed: a Cooperative Bilingual LSE-Spanish Dictionary in the Healthcare Domain". 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. 272-280. ISBN: 978-2-493814-30-2. ACL: 2024.signlang-1.43.
This entry was last modified on 7 March 2025.