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Interlingual Index for the EASIER Project's Core Sign Languages

Bigeard, Sam; Schulder, Marc; Kopf, Maria; Hanke, Thomas; Vasilaki, Kiriaki; Vacalopoulou, Anna; Goulas, Theodor; Dimou, Athanasia-Lida; Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita; Efthimiou, Eleni; Fox, Neil; Crasborn, Onno; Westenberg, Lianne; Ebling, Sarah; Wawrinka, Laure


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The earlier deliverable D6.3 was the first<br>\nversion of this index. It included German Sign Language (DGS) and Greek Sign Language<br>\n(GSL). This deliverable is the second version of the index. It covers further core sign languages<br>\nof the project: British Sign Language (BSL), Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT), French<br>\nSign Language (LSF) and Swiss-German Sign Language (DSGS). The next version will be<br>\ndeliverable 6.5 and will include languages beyond the project&rsquo;s core languages.<br>\nThe deliverable is the index itself. This report provides background information on wordnet<br>\nresearch, explains our method and choices, and presents the resulting dataset.<br>\nOur interlingual index uses the wordnet concept of synonym sets (synsets), which define con-<br>\ncepts by gathering signs and words that can represent the same meaning. This approach is<br>\nmore resistant to translation mistakes stemming from translation pairs being only valid for cer-<br>\ntain word/sign meanings. It also provides a new way to define sign types that does not rely on<br>\napproximate translations to a single spoken language word, the way glosses do. As a basis for<br>\nour index, we build on the synset inventory of Open Multilingual Wordnet (OMW).<br>\nWe use a three-step method: The first step is automatically matching candidate synsets to signs<br>\nusing the keywords and glosses associated with the sign. The second step is automatically<br>\nvalidating links that are most likely to be correct. The final step is manual validation of the<br>\nremaining links, prioritising the most useful signs.<br>\nThis work has resulted in a dataset of 7929 signs in 6 sign languages linked to 11806 synsets.<br>\nAdditionally, a web interface has been launched to make the index accessible for the general<br>\npublic.</p>","doi":"10.25592/uhhfdm.12676","grants":[{"acronym":"EASIER","code":"101016982","funder":{"acronyms":["EC"],"doi":"10.13039/501100000780","name":"European Commission"},"program":"H2020","title":"Intelligent Automatic Sign Language Translation"}],"keywords":["multilingual wordnet","lexical resource","crosslingual resource","semi-automatic resource creation","DGS (German Sign Language)","GSL (Greek Sign Language)","BSL (British Sign Language)","NGT (Sign Language of the Netherlands)","LSF (French Sign Language)","DSGS (Swiss-German Sign Language)"],"language":"eng","license":{"id":"CC-BY-4.0"},"publication_date":"2023-06-30","related_identifiers":[{"identifier":"10.25592/uhhfdm.12675","relation":"isVersionOf","scheme":"doi"}],"relations":{"version":[{"count":1,"index":0,"is_last":true,"last_child":{"pid_type":"recid","pid_value":"12676"},"parent":{"pid_type":"recid","pid_value":"12675"}}]},"resource_type":{"subtype":"deliverable","title":"Project deliverable","type":"publication"},"title":"Interlingual Index for the EASIER Project's Core Sign Languages","version":"1.0"},"owners":[31],"revision":2,"updated":"2023-07-04T13:44:49.483157+00:00"}

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