Following the example of other sign language researchers, we are creating a Signbank, a usage-based lexical database, to maintain consistent and systematic annotation information for American Sign Language (ASL). This tool, which will be available to the public, is currently being used in conjunction with an on-going effort to prepare corpora of sign language acquisition to share with the research community. This paper will briefly report on the development of the ASL Signbank, focusing on the adopted lemmatization principles. Lemmatization of ASL signs has never been done on a scale like this before - one that has been continually refreshed by actual usage data.
@InProceedings{HOCHGESANG18.18048, author = {Julie Hochgesang ,Onno Crasborn and Diane Lillo-Martin}, title = {Building the ASL Signbank: Lemmatization Principles for ASL}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, date = {7-12}, location = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Mayumi Bono and Eleni Efthimiou and
Stavroula-Evita Fotinea and Thomas Hanke and
Julie Hochgesang and Jette Kristoffersen and
Johanna Mesch and Yutaka Osugi}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris, France}, isbn = {979-10-95546-01-6}, language = {english} }
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