This paper introduces the ongoing project of digitizing and phonologically transcribing the The Canadian Dictionary of ASL to be used as a language resource. We describe the contents of the dictionary and the procedure used for creating the transcribed version, using the Sign Language Phonetic Annotator-Analyzer software. We also outline the benefits of creating a resource with such a detailed representation of the formational structure of signs.
Kathleen Currie Hall, Anushka Asthana, Maggie Reid, Yiran Gao, Grace Hobby, Oksana Tkachman, Kaili Vesik. 2024. Phonological Transcription of the Canadian Dictionary of ASL as a Language Resource. In Proceedings of the LREC-COLING 2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources, pages 81–89, Torino, Italy. ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL).
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@inproceedings{hall:24010:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Hall, Kathleen Currie and Asthana, Anushka and Reid, Maggie and Gao, Yiran and Hobby, Grace and Tkachman, Oksana and Vesik, Kaili},
title = {Phonological Transcription of the Canadian Dictionary of {ASL} as a Language Resource},
pages = {81--89},
editor = {Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Mesch, Johanna and Schulder, Marc},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC-COLING} 2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources},
maintitle = {2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC-COLING} 2024)},
publisher = {{ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)}},
address = {Torino, Italy},
day = {25},
month = may,
year = {2024},
isbn = {978-2-493814-30-2},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/24010.pdf}
}