@inproceedings{mohammed-murtagh-2023-towards,
    title = "Towards Accommodating Gerunds within the Sign Language Lexicon",
    author = "Mohammed, Zaid  and
      Murtagh, Irene",
    editor = "Shterionov, Dimitar  and
      Sisto, Mirella De  and
      Muller, Mathias  and
      Landuyt, Davy Van  and
      Omardeen, Rehana  and
      Oboyle, Shaun  and
      Braffort, Annelies  and
      Roelofsen, Floris  and
      Blain, Fred  and
      Vanroy, Bram  and
      Avramidis, Eleftherios",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages",
    month = jun,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Tampere, Finland",
    publisher = "European Association for Machine Translation",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2023.at4ssl-1.6/",
    pages = "44--47",
    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."
}