Digital Total - Computing & Data Science an der Universität Hamburg und in der Wissenschaftsmetropole Hamburg

Visualization and Sign Representation in the Digital Dictionary DGS (DW-DGS)

116

Not scheduled

20m

Von-Melle-Park 4

Poster

Description

Creating a dictionary of a visual language for diverse target groups presents unique challenges and calls for new technological solutions. We show ways of visualizing information, representing German Sign Language, and navigating the use of different languages in the Digitales Wörterbuch DGS (DW-DGS). As signs can best be represented in video form, we created a new format called a micon for the representation of DGS in the form of a moving thumbnail. The visualization of further information on a sign’s use includes maps showing regional variation directly generated from DGS corpus language data. As written language is a necessity for navigation, we discuss the use of written German as both a metalanguage and an object language in the dictionary.

Keywords

German Sign Language
Dictionary
Sign representation
Distribution maps
metalanguage