In the DGS-Korpus project the corpus is being used as the basis for lexicographic descriptions of signs in dictionary entries. In this process the lexicographers start from the data and type entry structures as found in the annotation database. While preparing a dictionary entry much of the work consists of manually going through a number of single tokens viewing the original data and available annotations. Findings are then categorised and summarised. However, a number of decisions and descriptions are also supported by pre-defined searches and views on the data. Supported areas include lexicographic lemmatisation (lemma sign establishment), selection of citation forms and variants, grammatical behaviour of signs, collocational patterns of use, regional distribution patterns and distribution of lexical or formational variants over different age groups. While we are still in the process of exploring the possibilities of a sign language corpus for lexicography, searches and views that have proven useful for our work are exemplified in this paper with regard to dictionary entries.
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Experiences from linguistic research using corpora
@inproceedings{langer:18026:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Langer, Gabriele and M{\"u}ller, Anke and W{\"a}hl, Sabrina},
title = {Queries and Views in {iLex} to Support Corpus-based Lexicographic Work on {German} {Sign} {Language} ({DGS})},
pages = {107--114},
editor = {Bono, Mayumi and Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna and Osugi, Yutaka},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2018} 8th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Involving the Language Community},
maintitle = {11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2018)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Miyazaki, Japan},
day = {12},
month = may,
year = {2018},
isbn = {979-10-95546-01-6},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/18026.pdf}
}
| Müller, Anke