Title :

Issues underlying a common Sign Language Corpora annotation scheme

Author(s) :

Balvet, Antonio [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Conference title :

LREC 2010

City :

Valetta

Country :

Malte

Start date of the conference :

2010-05-19

Book title :

4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies, LREC 2010

Publication date :

2010-05-19

English keyword(s) :

Annotation Scheme
Sign Language Corpora
Sign Language Linguistics

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

English abstract : [en]

Corpus-based Sign Language linguistics has emerged as a new linguistic domain, and as a consequence large-scale and controlled video data repositories are under construction for different Sign Languages. Nevertheless, as ...
Show more >Corpus-based Sign Language linguistics has emerged as a new linguistic domain, and as a consequence large-scale and controlled video data repositories are under construction for different Sign Languages. Nevertheless, as pointed by (Johnston, 2008) no unified annotation scheme is yet available, which compromises any chance of comparing or reusing corpora across research teams. Another related issue is the comparability of descriptions and formalizations between SL linguistics and mainstream linguistics. In this paper, we address the issue of the definition of a common annotation scheme for Sign Language corpora annotation, distribution, exchange and comparison. In section 2. we discuss the challenge of building inter-operable corpora for corpus-based linguistics. We also examine existing annotation schemes or strategies proposed for SL linguistics. In section 3. we propose a small set of annotation tiers, based on Frame-Semantics, as a common annotation scheme. We also propose to add text-level as well as utterance-level metadata to this common annotation scheme, in order to broaden the range of future uses of SL corpora.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

Harvested from HAL