Building the first comprehensive machine-readable Turkish sign language resource: methods, challenges and solutions

Gülşen Eryiğit; Cihat Eryiğit; Serpil Karabüklü; Meltem Kelepir; Aslı Özkul; Tuğba Pamay; Dilara Torunoğlu-Selamet; Hatice Köse

doi:10.1007/s10579-019-09465-5

Building the first comprehensive machine-readable Turkish sign language resource: methods, challenges and solutions

Gülşen Eryiğit^*
, Cihat Eryiğit
, Serpil Karabüklü
, Meltem Kelepir
, Aslı Özkul
, Tuğba Pamay
, Dilara Torunoğlu-Selamet
, Hatice Köse

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering

Istanbul Technical University
Bogazici University
Purdue University
Istanbul Bilgi University

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Abstract

This article describes the procedures employed during the development of the first comprehensive machine-readable Turkish Sign Language (TiD) resource: a bilingual lexical database and a parallel corpus between Turkish and TiD. In addition to sign language specific annotations (such as non-manual markers, classifiers and buoys) following the recently introduced TiD knowledge representation (Eryiğit et al. 2016), the parallel corpus contains also annotations of dependency relations, which makes it the first parallel treebank between a sign language and an auditory-vocal language.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	97-121
Number of pages	25
Journal	Language Resources and Evaluation
Volume	54
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-019-09465-5
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2020

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Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	693349

Keywords

Machine-readable
Parallel corpus
Parallel dependency treebank
TiD
Turkish
Turkish sign language

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