for theoretical reasons (paradigm on sign lexicography linked to neuroscience evidences) and technological reasons (computer implementation permitting direct cheremic sign retrieval) Novo Deit-Libras shall impact on sign language lexicography and dea

Fri Oct 9 15:50:44 UTC 2009

Dear Kim,
Thanks for your comments.
Yes, ideed, for theoretical reasons (new revolutionary paradigm on
lexicography linked to neuroscience evidences) and technological reasons
(computer implementation permitting direct cheremic sign retrieval) our Novo
Deit-Libras shall have a huge impact on sign language lexicography and deaf
education.
Best regards,
Fernando

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From: "Kimberley Shaw" <skifoot at gmail.com>
To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:00:19 -0400
Subject: Re: [sw-l] to Val, Tim, Charles: about Novo Deit-Libras, CD-Rom,
sign retrieval system, price, etc
Congrarulations, this dictionary sounds like it will be a great
resource! Even better that it will be searchable by sign, which can be
a huge help to new signers.
Kudos!
Kim from Boston

On 10/7/09, Fernando Capovilla <fcapovilla at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Valerie, Tim and Charles.
> I have just subscribed the list in the Digest format.
> Thus, I'll take the liberty of replying here to your messages, all at
> once.  I hope you do not mind. Thank you.
> Please read below.
> Best regards,
> Fernando
>
> Dear Valerie!
> Thank you so very much for your generosity and kindness in preparing such
a
> great announcement!
> Congratulations for another piece of a beautiful work of yours!
> I will subscribe to the list so to be able to reply to the questions. I
> would like to apologize in advance should I not be able to reply
immediately
> to all questions. Thank you.
> For the 2nd edition of the Novo Deit-Libras, we already have 1,700 brand
new
> signs and until 2012 shall prepare additional 7,000 brand new signs on
> college curriculum areas such as Medicine, Biology, Physics, Chemestry,
> Education, History, Geography, Anthropology, Law, Engeneering, Mathematics
> etc. We are making an effort to engage Brazilian deaf people with college
> degrees (preferably those pursuing graduate school) to contribute with
signs
> from their respective areas of study so as to obtain a Libras sign lexicon
> capable of covering a wide range of disciplines in Libras.
> We are succeeding so far, as the beautiful Novo Deit-Libras show. Thanks
to
> the cooperation of brilliant and caring people, the future for the
Brazilian
> deaf child seems quite bright, at last!
> Sincere fraternal love.
> Fernando
>
> Dear Tim,
> Thank you for writing.
> In 2001 here at the University of Sao Paulo we have created a nice system
> (named BuscaSigno - or Libras SignRetrieval System) which allows anyone to
> locate and retrieve Libras signs (from the corpus of the Trilingual
> Encyclopedic Illustrated Libras Dictionary, Capovilla & Raphael, 2001) on
> the basis of sign forms rather than on the basis of Portuguese glosses. I
> have demonstrated that system during a Gallaudet Seminar on Sign Language
> Lexicography in 2002, and a paper about that was published in Sign
Language
> Studies. Our Libras SignRetrieval System works nicely. It allows deaf
> students as well as foreigners who do not read Portuguese to locate and
> retrieve Libras signs from the dictionary without having to depend on
> Portuguese glosses. In the following years I have used BuscaSigno in order
> to understand the cognitive processes involved in retrieving signs from a
> lexicon (either mental or computerized) by hearing and deaf people. The
> findings were incredibly exciting. I have discovered that the ease with
> which someone manages to retrieve a give sign is an inverse function of
the
> logarithm of the average popularity of the cheremes that make up any given
> sign! The lower the popularity of any given chereme, the higher its
> importance as index for sign retrieval. BuscaSigno helped us to obtain the
> distribution of cheremes in the Brazilian lexicon and is a precious tool
for
> comparative linguistics and cognitive linguistics of sign language
structure
> and processing. The mathematical function fits data perfetly. Pretty cool
> original finding on cognitive neuropsycholinguistics of Sign Language
> processing. I wonder if people at Gallaudet might be interested in that.
> Anyway, now that we have doubled the size of the corpus in the Novo
> Deit-Libras (Capovilla, Raphael, Mauricio, 2001), we are working on
> BuscaSigno in order to expand its lexicon. As soon as we manage to do
that,
> we intend to publish in the CD-Rom format. However, I suspect that the 2nd
> ed. of the Novo Deit-Libras will be published before that. Thank you for
> your kind message.
> Fernando
>
> Dear Charles,
> It is very nice to hear from you after all these years.
> Thank you for the message and for your interest in our Novo Deit Libras
> (NDL). I am afraid I still do not have any idea regarding price and
> distribution. The Editora da USP Publisher is to decide all that when the
> NDL is released this coming November. They will only know in November. I
> appreciate your kind understanding.
> I am glad to know you will be visiting Brazil, and especially to know that
> you will include NDL in your comparative linguistics studies. Very nice
> indeed. I hope I can be of some help to you in next Jan-February, when I
> will have returned from a series of travels I am engaged in (I have
> evaluated 8,000 deaf chidren from 15 states during 20 hours each, and now
> the Ministry of Education is incorporating some of our tools and findings,
> which puts an enormous demand on our research agenda. Ye it is quite
> exciting. I hope we can discuss about that should you be interested too.).
> Sincerely yours,
> Fernando
>
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