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| Title | A Bilingual Dictionary Mexican Sign Language-Spanish/Spanish-Mexican Sign Language |
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| Authors | Antoinette Hawayek, Riccardo Del Gratta and Giuseppe Cappelli |
| Abstract | We present a three-part bilingual specialized dictionary Mexican SignLanguage-Spanish / Spanish-Mexican Sign Language. This dictionary will be theoutcome of a three-years agreement between the Italian “Consiglio Nazionaledelle Ricerche” and the Mexican Conacyt. Although many other sign languagedictionaries have been provided to deaf communities, there are no Mexican SignLanguage dictionaries in Mexico, yet. We want to stress on the specializedfeature of the proposed dictionary: the bilingual dictionary will containfrequently used general Spanish forms along with scholastic course specificspecialized words whose meanings warrant comprehension of school curricula. Weemphasize that this aspect of the bilingual dictionary can have a deep socialimpact, since we will furnish to deaf people the possibility to get competencein official language, which is necessary to ensure access to school curriculumand to become full-fledged citizens. From a technical point of view, thedictionary consists of a relational database, where we have saved the signparameters and a graphical user interface especially designed to allow deafchildren to retrieve signs using the relevant parameters and,thus, the meaningof the sign in Spanish. |
| Language | Acquisition |
| Topics | Sign Language Recognition/Generation, Lexicon, lexical database, Acquisition |
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A Bilingual Dictionary Mexican Sign Language-Spanish/Spanish-Mexican Sign Language |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{HAWAYEK10.27, author = {Antoinette Hawayek, Riccardo Del Gratta and Giuseppe Cappelli}, title = {A Bilingual Dictionary Mexican Sign Language-Spanish/Spanish-Mexican Sign Language}, 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} } |