New SignBank Features added...

Angus B. Grieve-Smith grvsmth at UNM.EDU
Sat Oct 4 21:02:56 UTC 2003


On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Valerie Sutton wrote:

> ... or you could actully create "sign-definitions" of the sign in
> question, giving us, for the first time, the ability to create
> dictionaries without ANY spoken language, with the definitions for the
> sign in Sign Language, not spoken language...it would be a dictionary
> that is on ASL, described in ASL! No English for that format...

        This is very exciting, Valerie!  I believe it is the first
opportunity to create monolingual sign language dictionaries (unless a
character-based writing system is used), as you say.  Is the idea that the
author would write the definition in SignWriter, then export to a graphics
file, and paste the graphics file into SignBank?


                                        -Angus B. Grieve-Smith
                                        grvsmth at panix.com



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