I for one have an embarrassingly vast lack of knowledge sign language. It seems that the tide is turning a bit and sign (should it be sign? See? I don’t even know that!) is starting to get more attention in basic linguistics classes.
So, my question: what kind of software do sign researchers rely on? Video, certainly, but what video software? Are there any custom-made tools out there?
Any pointers to good overview papers?
No one would be surprised to see me suggest that there are a lot of interesting possibilities for documenting sign with web platform technology, or at least, it seems that way to my uniformed .
…a lot of folks use the mpi-developed ELAN for video annotation (https://juliehochgesang.com/elan/). doc projects are relatively small and ppl maintain their own databases. ASL, ironically, is pretty far behind some other sign languages. check out this paper:
there is also the long-running sign language processing workshop attached to LREC (https://sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec-ws/workshops.html), but i have not attended and always found the proceedings too short and tantalizing
It certainly seems that Julie Hochgesang is someone to follow in this domain:
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