This paper describes the annotation scheme that has been used for research on mouth actions in the Corpus NGT. An orthographic representation of the visible part of the mouthing is supplemented by the citation form of the word, a categorisation of the type of the mouth action, the number of syllables in the mouth action, (non)alignment of a corresponding sign, and a layer representing some special functions. The scheme has been used for a series of studies on Sign Language of the Netherlands. The structure and vocabularies for the annotation scheme are described, as well as the experiences in its use so far. Annotations will be published in the second release of the Corpus NGT annotations in late 2014.
@inproceedings{crasborn:14034:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Crasborn, Onno and Bank, Richard},
title = {An annotation scheme for mouth actions in sign languages},
pages = {23--28},
editor = {Crasborn, Onno and Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2014} 6th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel},
maintitle = {9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2014)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Reykjavik, Iceland},
day = {31},
month = may,
year = {2014},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/14034.pdf}
}
| Bank, Richard