Introducing the signglossR Package

Carl Börstell


Abstract
The signglossR package is a library written in the programming language R, intended as an easy-to-use resource for those who work with signed language data and are familiar with R. The package contains a variety of functions designed specifically towards signed language research, facilitating a single-pipeline workflow with R when accessing public language resources remotely (online) or a user’s own files and data. The package specifically targets processing of image and video files, but also features some interaction with software commonly used by researchers working on signed language and gesture, such as ELAN and OpenPose. The signglossR package combines features and functionality from many other libraries and tools in order to simplify and collect existing resources in one place, as well as adding some new functionality, and adapt everything to the needs of researchers working with visual language data. In this paper, the main features of this package are introduced.
Anthology ID:
2022.signlang-1.3
Volume:
Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources
Month:
June
Year:
2022
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch, Marc Schulder
Venue:
SignLang
SIG:
Publisher:
European Language Resources Association
Note:
Pages:
16–23
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.signlang-1.3
DOI:
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Carl Börstell. 2022. Introducing the signglossR Package. In Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, pages 16–23, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
Cite (Informal):
Introducing the signglossR Package (Börstell, SignLang 2022)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.signlang-1.3.pdf
Code
 borstell/signglossr