Signbank: Software to Support Web Based Dictionaries of Sign Language

Cassidy, Steve | Crasborn, Onno | Nieminen, Henri | Stoop, Wessel | Hulsbosch, Micha | Even, Susan | Komen, Erwin | Johnston, Trevor

Volume:: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)
Venue:: Miyazaki, Japan
Date:: 7 to 12 May 2018
Pages:: 2359–2364
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Licence:: CC BY-NC 4.0
ACL ID:: L18-1374
ISBN:: 979-10-95546-00-9

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Languages:: American Sign Language, Auslan, British Sign Language, Finnish Sign Language, Sign Language of the Netherlands, Flemish Sign Language, English, Finnish

Abstract

Signbank is a web application that was originally built to support the Auslan Signbank on-line web dictionary, it was an Open Source re-implementation of an earlier version of that site. The application provides a framework for the development of a rich lexical database of sign language augmented with video samples of signs. As an Open Source project, the original Signbank has formed the basis of a number of new sign language dictionaries and corpora including those for British Sign Language, Sign Language of the Netherlands and Finnish Sign Language. Versions are under development for American Sign Language and Flemish Sign Language. This paper describes the overall architecture of the Signbank system and its representation of lexical entries and associated entities.

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Steve Cassidy, Onno Crasborn, Henri Nieminen, Wessel Stoop, Micha Hulsbosch, Susan Even, Erwin Komen, Trevor Johnston. 2018. Signbank: Software to Support Web Based Dictionaries of Sign Language. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), pages 2359–2364, Miyazaki, Japan. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{cassidy-etal-2018-signbank:lrec,
  author    = {Cassidy, Steve and Crasborn, Onno and Nieminen, Henri and Stoop, Wessel and Hulsbosch, Micha and Even, Susan and Komen, Erwin and Johnston, Trevor},
  title     = {{S}ignbank: Software to Support Web Based Dictionaries of Sign Language},
  pages     = {2359--2364},
  editor    = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and Choukri, Khalid and Cieri, Christopher and Declerck, Thierry and Goggi, Sara and Hasida, Koiti and Isahara, Hitoshi and Maegaard, Bente and Mariani, Joseph and Mazo,  H{\'e}l{\`e}ne and Moreno, Asuncion and Odijk, Jan and Piperidis, Stelios and Tokunaga, Takenobu},
  booktitle = {11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2018)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Miyazaki, Japan},
  day       = {7--12},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2018},
  isbn      = {979-10-95546-00-9},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/L18-1374}
}