Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: lexicographic matters and didactic scenario
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On the occasion of LREC2004, the first workshop on the Representation
and Processing of Sign Languages was held with good attendance.
A great variety of topics and approaches was discussed, but since this field is considerably younger
than the processing of spoken and written languages, a vast number of important questions still remain to be answered.
The workshop will centre on the crucial question of representing a sign language electronically and,
in this perspective, it will serve to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in sign language research,
thus stimulating the exchange of information and resources. In particular, we would like to pay specific attention to the
lexicographic treatment of sign languages, thus hinting at the problem of collecting sign language corpora and of describing
sign languages through a (new?) metalinguistic code that really suits them.
Besides the lexicographic questions, we would also like to discuss possible interactive didactic scenarios
(i.e. e-learning modules) that will promote sign language learning on the one hand, and support deaf people
in their learning path on the other. The discussion will possibly cover topics which act at the boundary of these
two research fields such as the question of the articulation between the different layers of a sign language
(lexical, textual etc.) and the related question of how to conceive didactic tools to illustrate and teach this articulation.
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