GlossLexer: A multimedia lexical database for sign language dictionary compilation

Hanke, Thomas; Konrad, Reiner; Schwarz, Arvid

doi:10.1075/sll.4.1-2.12han

Article published In: Sign Transcription and Database Storage of Sign Information
Edited by Brita Bergman, Penny Boyes Braem, Thomas Hanke and Elena Antinoro Pizzuto
[Sign Language & Linguistics 4:1/2] 2001
► pp. 171–189

GlossLexer

A multimedia lexical database for sign language dictionary compilation

Thomas Hanke | University of Hamburg, Germany

Reiner Konrad | University of Hamburg, Germany

Arvid Schwarz | University of Hamburg, Germany

Published online: 18 October 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.4.1-2.12han

GlossLexer is a multi-user sign language lexical database integrating digital video that has been designed to support the compilation process for specialist dictionaries from data collection to production. Sign entries are identified by HamNoSys notations as well as glosses, but the user always has immediate access to video clips showing the signs as uttered by the informants.

Keywords: lexical database, Sign language, multimedia database, corpora, digital video

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