Abstract
The essential characteristic of a signed language corpus is that it has been annotated, and not, contrary to the practice of many signed language researchers, that it has been transcribed. Annotations are necessary for corpus-based investigations of signed or spoken languages. Multi-media annotation software can now be used to transform a recording into a machine-readable text without it first being necessary to transcribe the text, provided that linguistic units are uniquely identified and annotations subsequently appended to these units. These unique identifiers are here referred to as ID-glosses. The use of ID-glosses is only possible if a reference lexical database (i.e., dictionary) exists as the result of prior foundation research into the lexicon. In short, the creators of signed language corpora should prioritize annotation above transcription, and ensure that signs are identified using unique gloss-based annotations. Without this the whole rationale for corpus-creation is undermined.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 22 |
| Place of Publication | Manila |
| Publisher | De la Salle University |
| Pages | 16-29 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
| Event | 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 22 - Cebu, Philippines Duration: 20 Nov 2008 → 22 Nov 2008 |
Other
| Other | 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 22 |
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| Country/Territory | Philippines |
| City | Cebu |
| Period | 20/11/08 → 22/11/08 |
Keywords
- Annotation
- Auslan (Australian Sign Language)
- Corpora
- Corpus linguistics
- Language documentation
- Sign language