The use of the specificities related to the visuo-gesual modality of SL, such as the use of the signing space and the simultaneous articulation of multiple channels allows the signer to express structures in a more illustrative way. The description of this structure goes beyond the linear linguistic organization initially applied to describe spoken languages. In this paper, we are interested in modeling structures that rely on the signing space to designate the location of one object relative to another. We are particularly interested in the study of location of one place in relation to another one in French Sign Language (LSF). After a presentation of the corpus and the methodology followed to analyze it, we present the study carried out as well as the results obtained.
Keywords
“Internet as a Corpus” for sign languages
Experiences from linguistic research using corpora
@inproceedings{hadjadj:18047:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Hadjadj, Mohamed Nassime},
title = {Modeling of Geographical Location in {French} {Sign} {Language} from a Semantically Compositional Grammar},
pages = {59--62},
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/18047.pdf}
}