Eliciting Spatial Reference for a Motion-Capture Corpus of American Sign Language Discourse
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We seek computational models of the referential use of signing space and of spatially inflected verb forms for use in American Sign Language (ASL) animations for accessibility applications for deaf users. We describe our collection and annotation of an ASL motion-capture corpus to be analyzed for our research. We compare alternative prompting strategies for eliciting single-signer multi-sentential ASL discourse that maximizes the use of pronominal spatial reference yet minimizes the use of classifier predicates.
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