The project Sign Language Acquisition, Annotation, Archiving and Sharing (SLAAASh) is a model for working with diverse ASL Deaf communities in all stages of the project. In this presentation, I highlight key steps in achieving this level of collaboration. First, I discuss the importance of sharing work with the community—a key form of reciprocity recognized by Deaf community members. Second, I discuss the importance of reflecting diversity, e.g., ensuring that ASL Signbank actors vary in age, gender, ethnicity, body type, and language experience. Third, I discuss the importance of incorporating feedback from stakeholders and show how the ASL Signbank actors have expressed different views that have impacted our development of the Signbank. Finally, I discuss the crucial component of building substantive community connections and maintaining them long-term. I end by discussing our own efforts to build community connections to date as well as planned future ones.
@InProceedings{HOCHGESANG18.18049, author = {Julie Hochgesang}, title = {SLAAASh and the ASL Deaf communities (or “so many gifs!”)}, 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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