SW to HamNoSys

Adam Frost adam at FROSTVILLAGE.COM
Fri Jun 15 21:29:56 UTC 2012


I believe that Charles was using computer talk when he said the two languages, but you are right that it is better to refer to SignWriting and HamNoSys as writing systems. :-)

Adam

On Jun 15, 2012, at 12:37 PM, "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU> wrote:

> That's good information. Just a terminological point: these are writing systems, not languages.
> 
> --
> Mark A. Mandel
> Linguistic Data Consortium
> University of Pennsylvania
> 
> 
> 
> On 12.06.15, at 12:54 PM, Cherie Wren wrote:
> 
>> Your best bet would be to check with Rachel Channon as she has been working on a multi-conversion program between SignWriting, HamNoSys and a third system which she presented at TISLR in Indiana.  She has the largest corpus available in both languages, to the best of my knowledge. 
>> 
>> HamNoSys does not have as many parameters as SW so there may be some things missing. 
>>  
>> Charles Butler
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