writing multi-party conversation

[eghoffma at UMICH.EDU]

Hi - Thanks. I will look into that reference.
Best,
Erika

Quoting Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa <rocha at ATLAS.UCPEL.TCHE.BR>:

> Hi,
>
>   I know that the sign language research group of Elena Pizzuto (at 
> ISTC, Rome) has some experience in the representation of two-party 
> dialogues using SignWriting. They have written one or two papers 
> talking about that.
>
>   All the best,
>
>   Antônio Carlos
>
>
> eghoffma at UMICH.EDU wrote:
>
>> Hi - I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience writing 
>> multi-party conversations with SSW. I'm working on linguistic 
>> transcripts of naturally occuring conversation/interviews/etc in 
>> Nepali Sign Language. I've only done transcripts of single signers 
>> so far, to get used to Signwriting. Now I want to start doing these 
>> multiparty interactions. Does anyone have any tips about this? I 
>> figure that I will have each party's signing going down side-by-side 
>> vertical strips (which is nice because I can visually represent 
>> overlap and all that). I am writing from the receptive point of view 
>> for these transcripts as that seems more suited to what I am working 
>> on here (though I agree that expressive makes more sense for 
>> personal writing). In most of these conversations the signers are 
>> facing one another (and are therefore at 3/4 to the camera). Does it 
>> make any sense to represent the way that looks in the sign writing 
>> or does it make more sense to write the signs as if the signers were 
>> directly facing the camera? Also, I have a lot of home signers in my 
>> data, who often incorporate the physical environment in their 
>> communication (reaching out to physically manipulate objects, trace 
>> on table tops, etc). I don't suppose sign writing has any means of 
>> representing contact with external physical objects? If not I can 
>> always describe these actions along with the glosses. I think most 
>> of these questions will work themselves out as I keep working, but I 
>> thought I'd throw some of these questions out there so I won't 
>> reinvent the wheel if someone has already worked through all this.
>> Best,
>> Erika
>>
>> Quoting Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>:
>>
>>> SignWriting List
>>> August 1, 2006
>>>
>>> On Jul 20, 2006, Kimberley Shaw wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've attached a picture of the first run of "ASL Story Book" as it 
>>>>  was being assembled! The first 20 copies are spoken for already,  
>>>> leaving 30 up for sale to whomever ...Best, Kim
>>>
>>>
>>> --------------
>>>
>>> Hello Kim!
>>> This is very exciting. The ASL Anthology looks great. I can see  
>>> several stories I know. Congrats!
>>>
>>> Look forward to hearing about your time at Gallaudet this summer -
>>>
>>> And thanks for this photo of the ASL Anthology while it was being 
>>> put  together...what fun ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa
> Escola de Informática
> Coord. Mestrado em Ciência da Computação
> Programa de Pós-graduação em Informática
> Universidade Católica de Pelotas
> http://ppginf.ucpel.tche.br
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