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| Title | The Sign Linguistics Corpora Network: Towards Standards for Signed Language Resources |
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| Authors | Onno Crasborn |
| Abstract | The Sign Linguistics Corpora Network is a three-year network initiative thataims to collect existing knowledge and practices on the creation and use ofsigned language resources. The concrete goals are to organise a series of fourworkshops in 2009 and 2010, create a stable Internet location for suchknowledge, and generate new ideas for employing the most recent technologiesfor the study of signed languages. The network covers a wide range of subjects:data collection, metadata, annotation, and exploitation; these are the topicsof the four workshops. The outcomes of the first two workshops are summarisedin this paper; both workshops demonstrated that the need for dedicatedknowledge on sign language corpora is especially salient in countries whereresearchers work alone or in small groups, which is still quite common in manyplaces in Europe. While the original goal of the network was primarily to focuson corpus linguistics and language documentation, human language technology hasgradually been incorporated as a user group of signed language resources. |
| Language | Sign Language Recognition/Generation |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), LR national/international projects, organizational/policy issues, Sign Language Recognition/Generation |
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The Sign Linguistics Corpora Network: Towards Standards for Signed Language Resources |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{CRASBORN10.25, author = {Onno Crasborn}, title = {The Sign Linguistics Corpora Network: Towards Standards for Signed Language Resources}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |