Towards Accommodating Gerunds within the Sign Language Lexicon

Authors

Zaid Mohammed, Technological University DublinFollow
Irene Murtagh, Technological University DublinFollow

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Technological University Dublin

Description

This work is part of ongoing research work that focuses on the linguistic analysis and computational description of five different Sign Languages (SLs) namely Irish Sign Language (ISL), Flemish Sign Language (VGT), Dutch Sign Language (NGT), Spanish Sign Language (LSE), and British Sign Language (BSL) as part of the SignON project. This work will be leveraged to inform the development of SL lexicon entries for a Sign Language Machine Translation (SLMT) system. In particular, this research focuses on ISL. We investigate the existence of constructions similar to or equivalent in functionality to gerunds in spoken language, in particular, English. The initial findings indicate that such constructions do indeed exist and that they can take many forms.

Publication Date

2023

Keywords

sign languages, linguistic analysis, computational description

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Conference

First Annual Teaching and Research Showcase 2023

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/K35P-7751

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

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Mohammed, Z., & Murtagh, I. (2023). Towards Accommodating Gerunds within the Sign Language Lexicon. Technological University Dublin. DOI: 10.21427/K35P-7751