Sign Language Phonetic Annotator-Analyzer: Open-Source Software for Form-Based Analysis of Sign Languages
Published in Proceedings of the LREC 2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, 2022
Recommended citation: Hall, K. C., Aonuki, Y., Vesik, K., Poy, A., & Tolmie, N. (2022). Sign Language Phonetic Annotator-Analyzer: Open-Source Software for Form-Based Analysis of Sign Languages. Proceedings of the LREC 2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, Marseille, France, 59-66. https://aclanthology.org/2022.signlang-1.10/
This paper provides an introduction to the Sign Language Phonetic Annotator-Analyzer (SLP-AA) software, a free and open-source tool currently under development, for facilitating detailed form-based transcription of signs. The software is designed to have a user-friendly interface that allows coders to transcribe a great deal of phonetic detail without being constrained to a particular phonetic annotation system or phonological framework. Here, we focus on the ‘annotator’ component of the software, outlining the functionality for transcribing movement, location, hand configuration, orientation, and contact, as well as the timing relations between them.