TY - GEN
T1 - Towards Accommodating Gerunds within the Sign Language Lexicon
AU - Mohammed, Zaid
AU - Murtagh, Irene
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - 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 sign language (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 preliminary findings indicate that in order to interpret if gerund constructions do indeed exist within ISL, further analysis and investigation is necessary, in particular within the domain of aspect and aspectual marking in signed languages.
AB - 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 sign language (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 preliminary findings indicate that in order to interpret if gerund constructions do indeed exist within ISL, further analysis and investigation is necessary, in particular within the domain of aspect and aspectual marking in signed languages.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85184519737&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.21427/K35P-7751
DO - 10.21427/K35P-7751
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85184519737
T3 - AT4SSL 2023 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages
SP - 49
EP - 52
BT - AT4SSL 2023 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages
A2 - Shterionov, Dimitar
A2 - De Sisto, Mirella
A2 - Muller, Mathias
A2 - Van Landuyt, Davy
A2 - Omardeen, Rehana
A2 - O'boyle, Shaun
A2 - Braffort, Annelies
A2 - Roelofsen, Floris
A2 - Blain, Frederic
A2 - Vanroy, Bram
A2 - Avramidis, Eleftherios
PB - European Association for Machine Translation
T2 - 2nd International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages, AT4SSL 2023
Y2 - 15 June 2023
ER -