Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
11 results found in American Sign Language.
- Hybrid Search (Hybrid sign-language search)
- A sign-language dictionary search pattern that combines search-by-video (a user performs the sign into a camera for sign recognition to match) with search-by-feature (manual filtering of the candidate…
- Lexical Signing (Lexical Sign, LS)
- In American Sign Language and related signed languages, the production of meaning by syntactically combining individual lexical signs drawn from the language's vocabulary — analogous to combining word…
- MPEG-4 Facial Action Parameter (MPEG-4 FAP, FAP, Facial Action Parameter, ISO/IEC 14496-2 facial animation)
- A standard for 3D face animation defined in ISO/IEC 14496-2 (MPEG-4), which parameterises a face through 68 feature points whose displacements (scaled relative to the character's own facial proportion…
- Pronominal Reference (Pronoun Reference, Anaphoric Reference)
- The use of pronouns or pronoun-like expressions to refer back to entities previously introduced in a discourse. In spoken and written languages this is typically achieved with words such as "he," "she…
- Rhetorical Question (ASL) (ASL Rhetorical Question, RHQ)
- In American Sign Language, a grammatical construction in which the signer poses a question and then immediately answers it, used as a cohesive rhetorical device rather than as a genuine inquiry. ASL r…
- Search-by-Feature (Feature-based sign search, Linguistic-property search)
- A sign-language dictionary search technique in which a user manually selects linguistic properties of the target sign — typically handshape, body-relative location, movement type, orientation, and num…
- Search-by-Video (Video-based search, Search by video)
- A sign-language dictionary search technique in which a user performs a sign into a webcam or camera and computer-vision-based sign recognition returns a ranked list of candidate dictionary entries. Se…
- Sign Language Corpus (ASL Corpus, Signed Language Corpus)
- A structured collection of recorded signed-language performances — typically video, and increasingly motion-capture data — annotated by expert signers with time-stamped linguistic information such as …
- Sign Language Interface (Sign-language interface, Signing interface)
- A computing interface that accepts input from, or presents output to, a user in a signed language such as American Sign Language (ASL) or British Sign Language (BSL), rather than assuming a spoken or …
- Sign Name (ASL name sign, Name sign)
- A unique sign in American Sign Language (or another signed language) used to uniquely identify an individual person or, in some proposals, an object or device, in place of fingerspelling their English…
- Spatial Reference (ASL) (Spatial Reference Point, Locus, ASL Spatial Reference)
- In American Sign Language and other signed languages, the use of points in the signing space in front of the signer as invisible placeholders for entities under discussion — people, objects, or concep…