A website for a lexicon of Swiss German Sign Language equivalents of technical terms was developed several years ago using Flash technology. In the intervening years, the backend research database was migrated from FileMaker to iLex. Here, we report on the development of a web platform that provides access to the same technical signs by extracting the relevant information directly from iLex. This new platform has many advantages: New sets of signs for technical terms can be added or existing ones modified in iLex at any time, and changes are reflected in the web platform upon refreshing the browser. Just as importantly, the new platform can now also be accessed through all major mobile operating systems, as it does not rely on Flash. We descri be how information on the glosses, keywords, videos of citation forms, status, and uses of the technical signs is represented in iLex and how the corresponding web platform was built.
@inproceedings{ebling:16009:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Ebling, Sarah and Boyes Braem, Penny},
title = {Linking a Web Lexicon of {DSGS} Technical Signs to {iLex}},
pages = {59--62},
editor = {Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2016} 7th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining},
maintitle = {10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2016)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Portoro{\v z}, Slovenia},
day = {28},
month = may,
year = {2016},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/16009.pdf}
}