Public deliverable D6.2 Specification for the harmonization of SL annotations, authored by Maria Kopf, Marc Schulder, Thomas Hanke, and Sam Bigeard (University of Hamburg) was submitted to the European Commission for review on January 31, 2022.
The document has been developed as part of the work performed by the Resources Harmonization Working Group and compiles information required for the joint use of several specific sign language corpora. It compares the annotations of 17 different corpora (some covering multiple languages) that include data for 17 signed languages. The comparison addresses annotation standards for manual and non-manual signs, describing their basic annotation format, formats for various specific phenomena and handshape coding approaches. This information is then used to formulate a strategy for the harmonization of these annotation standards that will result in a corpus-independent interchange format for the representation of all considered corpora.
The full deliverable is available here.
