Towards the Linking of a Sign Language Ontology with Lexical Data

Proceedings of Globalex Workshop on Linked Lexicography within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Abstract

We describe our current work for linking a new ontology for representing constitutive elements of Sign Languages with lexical data encoded within the OntoLex-Lemon framework. We first present very briefly the current state of the ontology, and show how transcriptions of signs can be represented in OntoLex-Lemon, in a minimalist manner, before addressing the challenges of linking the elements of the ontology to full lexical descriptions of the spoken languages.