ASL Video Corpora Sign Bank: Resources Available through the American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project (ASLLRP)

01/19/2022
by   Carol Neidle, et al.
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The American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project (ASLLRP) provides Internet access to high-quality ASL video data, generally including front and side views and a close-up of the face. The manual and non-manual components of the signing have been linguistically annotated using SignStream(R). The recently expanded video corpora can be browsed and searched through the Data Access Interface (DAI 2) we have designed; it is possible to carry out complex searches. The data from our corpora can also be downloaded; annotations are available in an XML export format. We have also developed the ASLLRP Sign Bank, which contains almost 6,000 sign entries for lexical signs, with distinct English-based glosses, with a total of 41,830 examples of lexical signs (in addition to about 300 gestures, over 1,000 fingerspelled signs, and 475 classifier examples). The Sign Bank is likewise accessible and searchable on the Internet; it can also be accessed from within SignStream(R) (software to facilitate linguistic annotation and analysis of visual language data) to make annotations more accurate and efficient. Here we describe the available resources. These data have been used for many types of research in linguistics and in computer-based sign language recognition from video; examples of such research are provided in the latter part of this article.

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