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title = "Formalising Sign Language Depiction, Characterising Categories and Measuring Iconicity with {AZ}ee",
author = "Filhol, Michael and
Martinod, Emmanuella",
editor = "Efthimiou, Eleni and
Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and
Hanke, Thomas and
Hochgesang, Julie A. and
Mesch, Johanna and
Schulder, Marc",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the {LREC} 2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.signlang-1.18/",
doi = "10.63317/5a8jvximd4ki",
pages = "164--173",
abstract = "This paper deals with depiction in (French) Sign Language, the formal account AZee can provide, and how it compares, validates or simplifies the linguistic notions of classifiers and iconic structures. It reports on a partial encoding work on ``Mocap1'', a corpus with a high density of depicting structures, following the same method that led to the first AZee reference corpus ``40 br{\`e}ves''. The approach does not postulate classifiers or iconic structures as entities separate from lexical signs, and nonetheless manages to model the corpus data. We discuss the entailed possibility to rediscover some of the useful categories, and if so define them from AZee{'}s premises. We also specify how a formal metric can be specified to measure iconicity in signed data. While this paper is of linguistic interest as it compares to existing theories, it also provides a concrete step to covering depicting discourse with AZee, therefore enable automatic SL animation of depiction."
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%T Formalising Sign Language Depiction, Characterising Categories and Measuring Iconicity with AZee
%A Filhol, Michael
%A Martinod, Emmanuella
%Y Efthimiou, Eleni
%Y Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita
%Y Hanke, Thomas
%Y Hochgesang, Julie A.
%Y Mesch, Johanna
%Y Schulder, Marc
%S Proceedings of the LREC 2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
%F filhol-martinod-2026-formalising
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Markdown (Informal)
[Formalising Sign Language Depiction, Characterising Categories and Measuring Iconicity with AZee](https://aclanthology.org/2026.signlang-1.18/) (Filhol & Martinod, SignLang 2026)
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