SW to HamNoSys

[Adam Frost]

The way that Charles is using corpus is in more of a general sense in that it is a collection. It is more of a dictionary of written signs than a corpus in the sense that you are referring to. It isn't impossible for SignWriting to be used for the purpose that you are asking about. 

SignWriting could be used for lemmatizing by having a chosen way to write all first person singular pronomization with its citation form regardless of the variation in handshapes used. This is basically how ID glossing works in naming all the same lemmas with the same label. 

SignWriting can also be used to be more percise for phonological purposes in phonological analysis, but I think there are other systems that might be better for more accurate analysis. 

Adam Frost

On Jun 18, 2012, at 4:28 PM, "Adam Schembri" <A.Schembri at LATROBE.EDU.AU> wrote:

> I understand that SW corpora are machine-readable and searchable, but is there any system for lemmatising SW data in place, or do you need to add ID glosses for that purpose as other corpus projects (Auslan, BSL) are doing? Can one find all examples of the first person singular pronominal (PRO1), for example, or is that difficult given that presumably the notation varies along with variation in the handshape?
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> From: "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU>
> Reply-To: linguists interested in signed languages <SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU>
> Date: Tuesday, 19 June 2012 1:46 
> To: "SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" <SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU>
> Subject: Re: SW to HamNoSys
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> Surely you mean "for multiple sign languages", yes?
> -- Mark
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> On 12.06.17, at 8:12 AM, Charles Butler wrote:
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>> You are absolutely correct here. As writing systems, the scripts are clearly documented, and the corpus for SW is the largest in the world for multiple languages. 
>>  
>> Charles Butler
>> chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com
>> 240-764-5748
>> Clear writing moves business forward.
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