Practice and Research on Construction of Corpus for Natural Sign Language

Author

Xiaomei Zhang ; Gang Zhao ; Yongyang Xu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Literature, Northeast Normal Univ., Changchun, China

fYear

2014

fDate

24-27 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

542

Lastpage

545

Abstract

Natural sign language is the language form widely used by hearing impaired peoples for daily communication and the establishment of dynamic Chinese natural sign language corpus is the major content for accelerating Chinese sign language research and popularizing the use of sign language. In this thesis, the development situation of sign language corpus both at home and abroad is summarized, the major existing problems are indicated and the corpus collection, corpus annotation, corpus establishment and corpus programming during the construction of dynamic Chinese natural sign language corpus are discussed.

Keywords

handicapped aids; natural language processing; sign language recognition; Chinese sign language research; corpus annotation; corpus collection; corpus establishment; corpus programming; daily communication; dynamic Chinese natural sign language corpus; hearing impaired people; Assistive technology; Educational institutions; Gesture recognition; Materials; Pragmatics; Vocabulary; Corpus; Natural Sign Language; Practice and Research;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), 2014 IEEE 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5078-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2014.105

Filename

6945750