Woordenboek Vlaamse Gebarentaal
The Woordenboek Vlaamse Gebarentaal is a dictionary for VGTFlemish Sign Language and Dutch.
The content is based on the Global Signbank - VGT; at the moment approximately half of the signs from the Signbank are published in the dictionary. A committee of deaf near-native signers meets regularly and decides which signs should be added to the dictionary. Quanitative data from the Corpus Vlaamse Gebarentaal is used to support the decisions.
Signs can be searched via Dutch keywords, handshapes and locations. Signs can also be searched by regional variant or semantic category, as signs are assigned to one or more semantic categories.
| Languages | Flemish Sign Language, Dutch |
|---|---|
| Size | 10000 entries |
| Linguistic Information | Citation form, phonological information, semantic category, lexical variants, related signs, similar signs, Dutch translations |
| Licence | information not available |
| Access | Public access via browsable homepage |
| Webpage |
https://woordenboek.vlaamsegebarentaal.be 
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| Institution | Flemish Sign Language Center (VGTC) |
| Publications |
Vermeerbergen and Van Herreweghe (2018)
Brosens et al. (2022) |
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References
Primary references
- Caro Brosens, Margot Janssens, Sam Verstraete, Thijs Vandamme, Hannes De Durpel (2022). "Moving towards a Functional Approach in the Flemish Sign Language Dictionary Making Process". In: Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources (Marseille, France). Ed. by Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch, Marc Schulder. Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 24-28. ISBN: 979-10-95546-86-3. ACL: 2022.signlang-1.4.
- Myriam Vermeerbergen, Mieke Van Herreweghe (2018). "Looking back while moving forward: The impact of societal and technological developments on Flemish sign language lexicographic practices". In: International Journal of Lexicography 31(2), pp. 167-195. ISSN: 0950-3846, 1477-4577. DOI: 10.1093/ijl/ecy008.
Further information sources
- sign-lang@LREC Anthology:
- Dataset "VGT Dictionary"
This entry was last modified on 11 April 2025.