Abstract
This paper presents a corpus of AZee discourse expressions, i.e. expressions which formally describe Sign Language utterances of any length using the AZee approach and language. The construction of this corpus had two main goals: a first reference corpus for AZee, and a test of its coverage on a significant sample of real-life utterances. We worked on productions from an existing corpus, namely the “40 breves”, containing an hour of French Sign Language. We wrote the corresponding AZee discourse expressions for the entire video content, i.e. expressions capturing the forms produced by the signers and their associated meaning by combining known production rules, a basic building block for these expressions. These are made available as a version 2 extension of the “40 breves”. We explain the way in which these expressions can be built, present the resulting corpus and set of production rules used, and perform first measurements on it. We also propose an evaluation of our corpus: for one hour of discourse, AZee allows to describe 94% of it, while ongoing studies are increasing this coverage. This corpus offers a lot of future prospects, for instance concerning synthesis with virtual signers, machine translation or formal grammars for Sign Language.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lrec-1.167
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- 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
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1560–1565
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.167
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Camille Challant and Michael Filhol. 2022. A First Corpus of AZee Discourse Expressions. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1560–1565, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- A First Corpus of AZee Discourse Expressions (Challant & Filhol, LREC 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2022.lrec-1.167.pdf