Open AccessTowards a dependency treebank for Spanish Sign Language (LSE)
Author(s) -
José Manuel Enríquez de Salamanca García,
Carmen Cabeza
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
hesperia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2952-3990
pISSN - 1139-3181
DOI - 10.35869/hafh.v23i0.1657
Subject(s) - treebank , dependency (uml) , syntax , computer science , sign (mathematics) , linguistics , sign language , modality (human–computer interaction) , natural language processing , expression (computer science) , artificial intelligence , programming language , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy
This paper presents the foundations, procedures, tests and first results of a dependency treebank of the Spanish Sign Language (LSE). Dependency syntax offers many advantages over other alternatives for the systematic and exhaustive syntactic analysis of a corpus. Nevertheless, the visual modality that is characteristic of sign languages poses unique challenges for their syntactic analysis, among which the most prominent is the simultaneity of expression: both hands, face and other non-manual components. Taking into account these and other particularities of sign languages, the paper explores the main difficulties faced when one tries to apply some usual categories and relations from the syntactic analysis of spoken and written languages to LSE.