Towards Accommodating Gerunds within the Sign Language Lexicon

Zaid Mohammed, Irene Murtagh


Abstract
This work is part of ongoing research work that focuses on the linguistic analysis and computational description of five different Sign Languages (SLs), namely Irish Sign Language (ISL), Flemish Sign Language (VGT), Dutch Sign Language (NGT), Spanish Sign Language (LSE), and British Sign Language (BSL). This work will be leveraged to inform the development of SL lexicon entries for a Sign Language Machine Translation (SLMT) system. In particular, this research focuses on ISL. We investigate the existence of constructions similar to or equivalent in functionality to gerunds in spoken language, in particular, English. The initial findings indicate that such constructions do indeed exist and that they can take many forms.
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2023.at4ssl-1.6
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Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages
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June
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2023
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Tampere, Finland
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Dimitar Shterionov, Mirella De Sisto, Mathias Muller, Davy Van Landuyt, Rehana Omardeen, Shaun Oboyle, Annelies Braffort, Floris Roelofsen, Fred Blain, Bram Vanroy, Eleftherios Avramidis
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European Association for Machine Translation
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44–47
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Zaid Mohammed and Irene Murtagh. 2023. Towards Accommodating Gerunds within the Sign Language Lexicon. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages, pages 44–47, Tampere, Finland. European Association for Machine Translation.
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