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Segmentation of Signs for Research Purposes: Comparing Humans and Machines

Woll, Bencie; Fox, Neil; Cormier, Kearsy; (2022) Segmentation of Signs for Research Purposes: Comparing Humans and Machines. In: Efthimiou, Eleni and Stavroula-Evita, Fotinea and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna and Schulder, Marc, (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the representation and processing of sign languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources [workshop part of International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2022, Marseilles, France]. (pp. pp. 198-201). European Language Resources Association: Marseille, France. Green open access

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Abstract

Wordnets have been a popular lexical resource type for many years. Their sense-based representation of lexical items and numerous relation structures have been used for a variety of computational and linguistic applications. The inclusion of different wordnets into multilingual wordnet networks has further extended their use into the realm of cross-lingual research. Wordnets have been released for many spoken languages. Research has also been carried out into the creation of wordnets for several sign languages, but none have yet resulted in publicly available datasets. This article presents our own efforts towards an inclusion of sign languages in a multilingual wordnet, starting with Greek Sign Language (GSL) and German Sign Language (DGS). Based on differences in available language resources between GSL and DGS, we trial two workflows with different coverage priorities. We also explore how synergies between both workflows can be leveraged and how future work on additional sign languages could profit from building on existing sign language wordnet data. The results of our work are made publicly available.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Segmentation of Signs for Research Purposes: Comparing Humans and Machines
Event: 110th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages
ISBN-13: 979-10-95546-86-3
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/work...
Language: English
Additional information: © European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC 4.0
Keywords: Multilingual Wordnet, Sign Language Wordnet, Semi-automatic resource creation
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10157401
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