This paper presents SignHunter, a tool for collecting isolated signs, and discusses application possibilities. SignHunter is successfully used within the DGS-Korpus project to collect name signs for places and cities. The data adds to the content of a German Sign Language (DGS) – German dictionary which is currently being developed, as well as a freely accessible subset of the DGS Corpus, the Public DGS Corpus. We discuss reasons to complement a natural language corpus by eliciting concepts without context and present an application example of SignHunter.
Keywords
Language documentation and long-term accessibility for sign language data
Crowd and community sourcing for corpus work
In the Service of the Language Community – What is the value of sign language resources for the sign language community?
@inproceedings{hanke:20030:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Hanke, Thomas and Jahn, Elena and W{\"a}hl, Sabrina and B{\"o}se, Oliver and K{\"o}nig, Lutz},
title = {{SignHunter} -- A Sign Elicitation Tool Suitable for Deaf Events},
pages = {83--88},
editor = {Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2020} 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives},
maintitle = {12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2020)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Marseille, France},
day = {16},
month = may,
year = {2020},
isbn = {979-10-95546-54-2},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/20030.pdf}
}
| Jahn, Elena