Phonological Transcription of the Canadian Dictionary of ASL as a Language Resource

Published in Proceedings of the LREC-COLING 2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources, 2024

Recommended citation: Hall, K. C., Asthana, A., Reid, M., Gao, Y., Hobby, G., Tkachman, O., & Vesik, K. (2024). Phonological Transcription of the Canadian Dictionary of ASL as a Language Resource. Proceedings of the LREC-COLING 2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources, Torino, Italy, 81-89. https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/24010.html

This paper introduces the ongoing project of digitizing and phonologically transcribing the The Canadian Dictionary of ASL to be used as a language resource. We describe the contents of the dictionary and the procedure used for creating the transcribed version, using the Sign Language Phonetic Annotator-Analyzer software. We also outline the benefits of creating a resource with such a detailed representation of the formational structure of signs.

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