Towards a new Ontology for Sign Languages

Thierry Declerck


Abstract
We present the current status of a new ontology for representing constitutive elements of Sign Languages (SL). This development emerged from investigations on how to represent multimodal lexical data in the OntoLex-Lemon framework, with the goal to publish such data in the Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) cloud. While studying the literature and various sites dealing with sign languages, we saw the need to harmonise all the data categories (or features) defined and used in those sources, and to organise them in an ontology to which lexical descriptions in OntoLex-Lemon could be linked. We make the code of the first version of this ontology available, so that it can be further developed collaboratively by both the Linked Data and the SL communities
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2022.lrec-1.423
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
Year:
2022
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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3977–3983
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.423
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Thierry Declerck. 2022. Towards a new Ontology for Sign Languages. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3977–3983, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Towards a new Ontology for Sign Languages (Declerck, LREC 2022)
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