The Italian Sign Language Sign Bank: Using WordNet for Sign Language corpus creation

Author

Prinetto, Paolo ; Shoaib, Umar ; Tiotto, Gabriele

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Autom. e Inf., Politec. di Torino, Turin, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

29-31 March 2011

Firstpage

134

Lastpage

137

Abstract

Sign languages are visual-gestural languages used by deaf people to communicate with others. As with spoken languages, Sign languages vary among countries and have their own vocabulary and grammar. Since they suffer of an extreme variability within the same country as they don´t have a standard lexicon. This paper describes a LIS Sign Bank, a large scale LIS lexicon automatically linked to Word Net, that allows a rich extension with meanings. The development of large parallel corpus between Italian and Italian Sign Language (Lingua Italiana dei Segni, LIS) is described.

Keywords

graphical user interfaces; information retrieval systems; natural languages; Italian sign language sign bank; LIS lexicon; LIS sign bank; Lingua Italiana dei Segni; WordNet; graphical user interfaces; parallel corpus; sign language corpus creation; visual-gestural languages; Animation; Databases; Dictionaries; Handicapped aids; Pragmatics; Semantics; Weather forecasting; E-learning; Eaccessibility; Sign languages; knowledge management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Aqaba

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0401-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCITECHNOL.2011.5762664

Filename

5762664