Non-manual features: the right to indifference

• Main Authors: Filhol, Michael, Hadjadj, Mohamed, Choisier, Annick
• Other Authors: Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (LIMSI), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Sorbonne Université - UFR d'Ingénierie (UFR 919), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Saclay (COmUE)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2014
• Subjects: Sign Language modelling; Non-manual features; Synchronisation; AZee; [INFO]Computer Science [cs]; [INFO.INFO-CL]Computer Science [cs]/Computation and Language [cs.CL]; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01849040; https://hal.science/hal-01849040/document; https://hal.science/hal-01849040/file/LREC2014-SLworkshop-FINAL.pdf

International audience This paper discusses the way Sign Language can be described with a global account of the visual channel, not separating manual articulators in any way. In a first section section it shows that non-manuals are often either ignored in favour of manual focus, or included but given roles that are mostly different from the mainly hand-assigned lexical role. A second section describes the AZee model as a tool to describe Sign Language productions without assuming any separation, neither between articulators nor between grammatical roles. We conclude by giving a full AZee description for one of the several examples populating the paper.