Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Sign Language Classifier (Classifier Sign, Depicting Sign, Classifier Predicate)
- A type of sign in sign languages that is not part of a fixed vocabulary but is created dynamically during discourse to represent a class of objects sharing a common shape, size, or physical characteri…
- 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 Dictionary (SL Dictionary, ASL Dictionary)
- A reference tool that allows users to look up signs in a sign language, providing video demonstrations, definitions, and usage examples. Sign language dictionaries can be organized by English gloss (w…
- Sign Language Generation (Sign Language Synthesis, Signing Generation)
- The automatic production of sign language content, typically through computer-generated animations of signing avatars or video synthesis. Sign language generation systems convert text or symbolic repr…
- 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 Language Interpretation (Sign Language Interpreting, SLI)
- The process of conveying spoken or written language into a sign language (or vice versa) by a trained interpreter, enabling communication access for Deaf and hard of hearing individuals. In digital me…
- Sign Language Interpreter (SLI, Interpreter)
- A professional who facilitates communication between Deaf or hard of hearing individuals and hearing individuals by translating between a sign language and a spoken language. Interpreters must be flue…
- Sign Language Interpreting (Sign Language Interpretation, ASL Interpreting)
- The professional practice of translating bidirectionally between a signed language (such as American Sign Language) and a spoken language (such as English) to facilitate communication between Deaf or …
- Sign Language Learning (Sign Language Education, Sign Language Acquisition)
- The process by which people learn a sign language as a first or second language, through instruction, immersion, or self-directed study. For hearing second-language learners, reading back fingerspelli…
- Sign Language Machine Translation (English-to-ASL Translation, Sign Language MT, Text-to-Sign Translation)
- The automatic translation of written or spoken text into a signed language (or vice versa) using computational methods, typically producing output as an animated signing avatar or, less commonly, as r…
- Sign Language Phonology
- The study of the smallest meaningful units that make up signs in signed languages, analogous to phonemes in spoken languages. In American Sign Language, signs are composed of phonological parameters i…
- Sign Language Processing (SLP, Sign Language Technology)
- A field of artificial intelligence and computer science focused on developing computational systems that can understand, generate, and translate sign languages. Sign language processing encompasses si…
- Sign Language Recognition (SLR, Automatic Sign Recognition)
- A computer vision and machine learning task focused on automatically detecting and classifying signs from video input. Sign language recognition ranges from isolated sign recognition (identifying indi…
- Sign Language Synthesis (Sign Language Generation, Sign Language Avatar, Signing Avatar)
- Sign language synthesis is the automated generation of sign language output, typically through 3D animated avatars or computer graphics, from text or other input. The technology involves translating w…
- Sign Language Translation (SLT, Sign-to-Text Translation, Sign-to-Speech Translation)
- The task of converting between a sign language and a spoken or written language, in either direction. Sign-to-spoken/written translation (e.g., ASL to English) involves recognizing signs from video an…
- Sign Language Video (Sign Language Interpretation Video)
- Pre-recorded or live video content presenting information in sign language, used to augment or replace written text for deaf and hard of hearing users. In reading support contexts, sign language video…
- Sign Language Writing System (Sign Language Script, Sign Language Notation, Sign Language Character System)
- A system of symbols or characters designed to represent sign language in written form. Unlike spoken languages, which have well-established writing systems, sign languages generally lack a standard wr…
- Sign Linguistics (Sign Language Linguistics)
- The scientific study of the structure and properties of sign languages. Sign linguistics examines the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic components of visual-gestural languages. Key …
- 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…
- Sign Phoneme (cheremes, sign language phoneme)
- The smallest contrastive units in sign language that bear meaning and distinguish one sign from another, analogous to phonemes in spoken language. Sign phonemes include hand shapes, movements, locatio…