Documenting the Use of Iranian Sign Language (ZEI) in Kermanshah

no code implementations • SignLang (LREC) 2022 • Yassaman Choubsaz, Onno Crasborn, Sara Siyavoshi, Farzaneh Soleimanbeigi

We describe a sign language documentation project funded by the Endangered Languages Documentation Project (ELDP) in the province of Kermanshah, a city in west of Iran.

Facilitating the Spread of New Sign Language Technologies across Europe

no code implementations • SignLang (LREC) 2022 • Hope Morgan, Onno Crasborn, Maria Kopf, Marc Schulder, Thomas Hanke

Even the larger corpora available for some sign languages are tiny compared to the amounts of data used for corresponding spoken language technologies.

Translation

Measuring Lexical Similarity across Sign Languages in Global Signbank

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Carl B{\"o}rstell, Onno Crasborn, Lori Whynot

Lexicostatistics is the main method used in previous work measuring linguistic distances between sign languages.

Signbank: Software to Support Web Based Dictionaries of Sign Language

no code implementations • LREC 2018 • Steve Cassidy, Onno Crasborn, Henri Nieminen, Wessel Stoop, Micha Hulsbosch, Susan Even, Erwin Komen, Trevor Johnston

Unsupervised Feature Learning for Visual Sign Language Identification

no code implementations • ACL 2014 • Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre, Onno Crasborn, Peter Wittenburg, Sebastian Drude, Tom Heskes

Information Retrieval Language Identification +2

Improving the exploitation of linguistic annotations in ELAN

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Onno Crasborn, Han Sloetjes

This paper discusses some improvements in recent and planned versions of the multimodal annotation tool ELAN, which are targeted at improving the usability of annotated files.

Language Identification