Signs and Synonymity: Continuing Development of the Multilingual Sign Language Wordnet

Schulder, Marc; Bigeard, Sam; Kopf, Maria; Hanke, Thomas; Kuder, Anna; Wójcicka, Joanna; Mesch, Johanna; Björkstrand, Thomas; Vacalopoulou, Anna; Vasilaki, Kyriaki; Goulas, Theodoros; Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita; Efthimiou, Eleni

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Signs and Synonymity: Continuing Development of the Multilingual Sign Language Wordnet

Schulder, Marc | Bigeard, Sam | Kopf, Maria | Hanke, Thomas | Kuder, Anna | Wójcicka, Joanna | Mesch, Johanna | Björkstrand, Thomas | Vacalopoulou, Anna | Vasilaki, Kyriaki | Goulas, Theodoros | Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita | Efthimiou, Eleni

Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC-COLING 2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources
Venue:: Torino, Italy
Date:: 25 May 2024
Pages:: 281–291
Publisher:: ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)
License:: CC BY-NC 4.0
sign-lang ID:: 24034
ACL ID:: 2024.signlang-1.38
ISBN:: 978-2-493814-30-2

Abstract

The Multilingual Sign Language Wordnet is the first publicly available wordnet resource for sign languages. It is a growing multilingual resource providing data for eight sign languages to date. During the initial phase of its creation, the focus lay on producing the infrastructure to support various languages and to produce initial sets of content for them. This article represents the start of the second phase, in which the focus is moved to establishing overlapping coverage across the different sign languages. Building on the data produced so far, a new feature to assist annotation is introduced which leverages established partial synonymy between signs (inter- and cross-lingually) to discover likely additional synonymies. Other improvements to the annotation interface and workflow build directly on the experiences from the first phase. Working with the updated annotation interface, new data is produced for Polish Sign Language, Greek Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language.

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@inproceedings{schulder:24034:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Schulder, Marc and Bigeard, Sam and Kopf, Maria and Hanke, Thomas and Kuder, Anna and W{\'o}jcicka, Joanna and Mesch, Johanna and Bj{\"o}rkstrand, Thomas and Vacalopoulou, Anna and Vasilaki, Kyriaki and Goulas, Theodoros and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Efthimiou, Eleni},
  title     = {Signs and Synonymity: Continuing Development of the Multilingual Sign Language Wordnet},
  pages     = {281--291},
  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/24034.pdf}
}

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