sign databases

[Ingvild Roald]

The SignBank, using the Sutton's SignWriting system and FileMaker, is just
being completed. This does not mean that all of DASL is transcribed into
it, but it does give a system that can sort by handshape etc. as well as
by words. I do not know how many signs will initially be entered.

URLS for the system and for the sign bank:

http://www.SignWriting.org

http://www.SignBank.org

Ingvild Roald
Dr. philos / lektor

Vestlandet Resource Centre
               for Deaf Education
National Support System for Special Education
POB 6039 Bergen Postterminal
N-5892 BERGEN
Norway


SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA skriver:
>Does anyone have or know about any transcription of some or all of the
>Stokoe Casterline and Croneberg ASL dictionary (DASL) into something that
>is
>machine readable, so that one could get frequency counts of handshapes,
>places, etc.?  Is anyone aware of any other phonetic or phonological sign
>language database of any sign language?  I am aware of the SignPhon
>database
>for SLN, but not of any other.
>
>Rachel Channon
>University of Maryland Linguistics Department
>rchannon at speakeasy.net
>