Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

ASL Dictionary (Sign Language Dictionary, ASL Lexicon)

A reference resource for looking up American Sign Language signs and their meanings. Unlike dictionaries for written languages, ASL dictionaries face unique challenges because signs cannot be typed as…

• Sign Language
• Assistive Technology
• Reference Tools

Signbank (Auslan Signbank)

An online dictionary and lexical database for a sign language, typically providing video or image entries for each sign along with metadata such as handshape, region, and usage examples. Auslan Signba…

• Sign Language
• Reference Tools
• Accessibility Tools

WordNet

A large-scale electronic lexical database of the English language developed at Princeton University, in which nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets…

• Natural Language Processing
• Linguistics
• Reference Tools