TY - GEN
T1 - Building AslNet, a wordNet for American sign language
AU - Lualdi, Colin
AU - Hudson, Jack
AU - Fellbaum, Christiane
AU - Buchholz, Noah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright by Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej, Wrocław 2019.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We discuss the creation of ASLNet by aligning the Princeton WordNet (PWN) with SignStudy, an online database of American Sign Language (ASL) signs. This alignment will have many immediate benefits for first- and second- sign language learners as well as ASL researchers by highlighting semantic relations among signs. We begin to address the interesting theoretical question of to what extent the wordnet-style organization of the English lexicon (and those of wordnets in other spoken languages) is applicable to ASL, and whether ASL requires positing additional, language- or modality-specific relations among signs. Significantly, the mapping of SignStudy and PWN provides a bridge between ASL and the worldwide wordnet community, which comprises speakers of dozens of languages working in academic and language technology settings.
AB - We discuss the creation of ASLNet by aligning the Princeton WordNet (PWN) with SignStudy, an online database of American Sign Language (ASL) signs. This alignment will have many immediate benefits for first- and second- sign language learners as well as ASL researchers by highlighting semantic relations among signs. We begin to address the interesting theoretical question of to what extent the wordnet-style organization of the English lexicon (and those of wordnets in other spoken languages) is applicable to ASL, and whether ASL requires positing additional, language- or modality-specific relations among signs. Significantly, the mapping of SignStudy and PWN provides a bridge between ASL and the worldwide wordnet community, which comprises speakers of dozens of languages working in academic and language technology settings.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85082448101
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85082448101#tab=citedBy
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85082448101
T3 - Proceedings of the 10th Global WordNet Conference
SP - 315
EP - 322
BT - Proceedings of the 10th Global WordNet Conference
A2 - Fellbaum, Christiane
A2 - Vossen, Piek
A2 - Rudnicka, Ewa
A2 - Maziarz, Marek
A2 - Piasecki, Maciej
PB - Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawskiej
T2 - 10th Global WordNet Conference, GWC 2019
Y2 - 23 July 2019 through 27 July 2019
ER -