SignHunter – A Sign Elicitation Tool Suitable for Deaf Events

Thomas Hanke, Elena Jahn, Sabrina Wähl, Oliver Böse, Lutz König


Abstract
This paper presents SignHunter, a tool for collecting isolated signs, and discusses application possibilities. SignHunter is successfully used within the DGS-Korpus project to collect name signs for places and cities. The data adds to the content of a German Sign Language (DGS) – German dictionary which is currently being developed, as well as a freely accessible subset of the DGS Corpus, the Public DGS Corpus. We discuss reasons to complement a natural language corpus by eliciting concepts without context and present an application example of SignHunter.
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2020.signlang-1.13
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Proceedings of the LREC2020 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives
Month:
May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch
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SignLang
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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83–88
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.signlang-1.13
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Thomas Hanke, Elena Jahn, Sabrina Wähl, Oliver Böse, and Lutz König. 2020. SignHunter – A Sign Elicitation Tool Suitable for Deaf Events. In Proceedings of the LREC2020 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives, pages 83–88, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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SignHunter – A Sign Elicitation Tool Suitable for Deaf Events (Hanke et al., SignLang 2020)
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