Published April 17, 2019 | Version v1
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Building the first comprehensive machine-readable Turkish sign language resource: methods, challenges and solutions

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Istanbul Technical University
  • 2. Bogazici University
  • 3. Bogazici University and Bilgi University

Description

This article describes the procedures employed during the development of the first comprehensive machine-readable Turkish Sign Language (TiD) resource: a bilingual lexical database and a parallel corpus between Turkish and TiD. In addition to sign language specific annotations (such as non-manual markers, classifiers and buoys) following the recently introduced TiD knowledge representation (Eryiğit et al. 2016), the parallel corpus contains also annotations of dependency relations, which makes it the first parallel treebank between a sign language and an auditory-vocal language.

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Funding

European Commission
SIGN-HUB - The Sign Hub: preserving, researching and fostering the linguistic, historical and cultural heritage of European Deaf signing communities with an integral resource 693349