In the prospect of animating virtual signers, this article addresses the issue of representing Sign, in particular on levels not restricted to the language lexicon. In order to choose and design a suitable model, we illustrate the main steps of our corpus-based methodology for linguistic structure identification and formal description with the example of a specific structure we have named “qualification/naming”. We also discuss its similarity and difference with other Sign properties described in the literature such as compound signs. Consequently we explain our choice for a description model that does not separate lexicon and grammar in two disjoint levels for virtual signer input.
@inproceedings{filhol:12024:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Filhol, Michael and Braffort, Annelies},
title = {A Study on Qualification/Naming Structures in Sign Languages},
pages = {63--66},
editor = {Crasborn, Onno and Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2012} 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon},
maintitle = {8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2012)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Istanbul, Turkey},
day = {27},
month = may,
year = {2012},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/12024.pdf}
}
| Braffort, Annelies