Ordering Signs in Dictionaries

Thu Aug 14 05:04:01 UTC 2014

Actually, I did not give enough information for a complete listing. 

1) Single hand - BaseSymbol order 
2) Orientation - Fill and Rotation
3) Second hand - BaseSymbol order
4) Second hand orientation - Fill and Rotation
5) Contacts (default is hand to hand contact first) (however many contacts in the sequence) 
- hand to body (head, shoulders, waist not shown)
- hand to other hand
- hand to head (head arc ordered including eyes, nose, ears, etc. lots of individual markers for location)
- hand to body
6) Movements (vertical, horizontal, arcs - as listed in the SignPuddle)
7) Speed
8) Facial Expression (these are always being added)

Put this into the Sign Spelling Sequence for each syllable and you have what i am trying to do. Sometimes any of the parameters may be null, so a head movement alone would have no hands or contacts, but might have movement, speed and facial expressions. Crinkling one's nose like Samantha from Bewitched would be one of these. Carmen Miranda dancing would use all eight parameters. 

Carmen-Miranda 

Carmen Miranda dancing            

Charles Butler
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 From: Stephen E Slevinski Jr <slevin at SIGNPUDDLE.NET>
To: SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU 
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: Ordering Signs in Dictionaries

On 8/12/14, 3:47 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote:

Hi Charles,
    I enjoyed your symposium “Ordering Signs in Dictionaries” http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0010.html
 I was wondering if Steve and Val had been able to find you a solution.  Val mentioned that she thought that Steve would have an easy way for you to do your sorting.

There are 2 different issues involved here: the sorting mechanics
    and the sorting theory.

Sorting Mechanics
============
The mechanics are simple.  A linear ordered sequence of symbols can
    be assigned to any sign.  The symbols automatically sort according
    to the ISWA 2010 default order using a binary string comparison.  In
    our programs we can use > greater than or < less than
    comparisons.  From a database, we can use a simple "order by"
    clause.

For each symbol, there are 2 kinds of mechanical sorting.  The major
    sorting between symbols and the minor sorting within symbol bases.

For the major sorting between symbols, the list below is sorted by
    the default ISWA 2010 order.  Order other than this are possible,
    but require an additional step of creating a custom ordering of the
    symbols.  Only the default ISWA 2010 order has been implemented. 
    Unicode has a way to reorder the major sorting issues involving
    special weights for each symbol base.

For the minor sorting within the symbols, the default order starts
    with Fill 1 and Rotation 1.  Next is Fill 1 with Rotation 2, then
    the rest of the rotations for Fill 1.  After that are the symbols
    with Fill 2.  Only the default ISWA 2010 order has been
    implemented.  This may be an issue when the default ISWA 2010 order
    is not the desired order.  Unicode may possibly have a way to
    reorder the minor sorting, but I'm not sure.

Sorting Theory
=========
For sorting, the linear ordered list of symbols can be created using
    any writing symbols and any detailed location symbols.

Creating the special sorting requires crafting a special sequence.

If I understood Charles correctly, he would want to use Head Rims.

Head Rims have a default sort order of the following...

So the first symbol in the ordered sequence would be the dominant
    hand shape.  The next would be the appropriate Head Rim.  The third
    symbol would be the non-dominant hand.

Regards,

-Steve

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