SW-HamNoSys

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
What I do not understand is how you can do a frequency analysis and make it
work. I expect that you concentrate on one sign language. SignWriting is
used by many sign languages and consequently the logic escapes me. It is
like comparing the Latin script and the Arabic script; you cannot do a two
way transcription it is impossible because of the architecture of the two
scripts. Likewise with SW and HS; HS is the poor cousin who lacks many
features SignWriting provides.
Thanks,
      Gerard

On 28 June 2012 16:55, Penny Boyes Braem <boyesbraem at fzgresearch.org> wrote:

> Hallo all,
>
> We just wanted to thank everyone who has contributed comments on this list
> to our previous email concerning our pilot project for SignWriting-HamNoSys
> notation conversion.  As a result of the posting, we’ve had helpful
> correspondence with some groups who are also interested in working on
> conversion between different types of sign notation or coding systems.
> (Just to be clear, we are working with individual lexical items and not a
> corpus of signed texts.)
>
> Clearly, the fact that there are more SW than HNS symbols will make any
> conversion not straightforward.  The non manuals are also a special
> concern.  At the moment, we’re hoping that some of the new two letter codes
> for HNS manuals developed by the recent EU Visicast project will be of help
> here.
>
> In our pilot project, we are  trying to establish mappings between SW and
> HNS symbols (or combination of symbols)  based on frequencies of
> occurrences - i.e. a ‘bottom-up’ approach.  A  ‘first pass’ comparison we
> are currently making will help us focus on those areas of notation which
> pose particular problem for conversions, and on which we will concentrate
> in the next steps.
>
> We’d be happy to share our first pass results with any of you who are
> interested - please contact us at our individual emails.
>
> Thanks again to all,
> Penny & Sarah
>
> Penny Boyes Braem (*boyesbraem at fzgresearch.org*) and  Sarah Ebling (*
> ebling at cl.uzh.ch*)
>
>  *
> Dr. Penny Boyes Braem
> boyesbraem at fzgresearch.org
> www.fzgresearch.org*
> Switzerland
>
>
>      *Dr. Penny Boyes Braem, Director*
> *Forschungszentrum für Gebärdensprache (FZG)*
> *(Center for Sign Language Research)*
> *CH-4059 Basel, Switzerland*
> *
> boyesbraem at fzgresearch.org*
> *www.fzgresearch.org*
>
>
>
>
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