From a3b1dcc2c1cbbd5dd8da8cec61a559d40e864eb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amit Moryossef Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:16:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Add reference to AZVD software editor (Filhol & von Ascheberg, 2024) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) --- src/index.md | 1 + src/references.bib | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/index.md b/src/index.md index fbdfbfa9..f90c1fa2 100644 --- a/src/index.md +++ b/src/index.md @@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ However, they remain a continuous, multidimensional representation that is not a represent signs as discrete visual features. Some systems are written linearly, and others use graphemes in two dimensions. While various universal [@writing:sutton1990lessons;@writing:prillwitz1990hamburg] and language-specific notation systems [@writing:stokoe1960sign;@writing:kakumasu1968urubu;@writing:bergman1977tecknad] have been proposed, no writing system has been adopted widely by any sign language community, and the lack of standards hinders the exchange and unification of resources and applications between projects. +@filhol-von-ascheberg-2024-software introduced a web-based software editor for AZVD, a graphical sign language representation system that combines 2D symbols based on observed spontaneous productions with AZee expression mappings to keep diagrams synthesizable through avatar rendering. The figure above depicts two universal notation systems: SignWriting [@writing:sutton1990lessons], a two-dimensional pictographic system, and HamNoSys [@writing:prillwitz1990hamburg], a linear stream of graphemes designed to be machine-readable. diff --git a/src/references.bib b/src/references.bib index 7be06f6b..c16401b8 100644 --- a/src/references.bib +++ b/src/references.bib @@ -4599,3 +4599,22 @@ @inproceedings{miyazaki-etal-2024-sign url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.signlang-1.29}, year = {2024} } + +@inproceedings{filhol-von-ascheberg-2024-software, + title = "A software editor for the {AZVD} graphical Sign Language representation system", + author = "Filhol, Michael and + von Ascheberg, Thomas", + editor = "Efthimiou, Eleni and + Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and + Hanke, Thomas and + Hochgesang, Julie A. and + Mesch, Johanna and + Schulder, Marc", + booktitle = "Proceedings of the LREC-COLING 2024 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources", + month = may, + year = "2024", + address = "Torino, Italia", + publisher = "ELRA and ICCL", + url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.signlang-1.8/", + pages = "77--85" +} From 5fe6501ae41b99ddd045596172aa62e809443979 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: AmitMY Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:41:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Rotate sentence: AZVD/AZee first, then editor (review feedback) --- src/index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/index.md b/src/index.md index f90c1fa2..52691055 100644 --- a/src/index.md +++ b/src/index.md @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ However, they remain a continuous, multidimensional representation that is not a represent signs as discrete visual features. Some systems are written linearly, and others use graphemes in two dimensions. While various universal [@writing:sutton1990lessons;@writing:prillwitz1990hamburg] and language-specific notation systems [@writing:stokoe1960sign;@writing:kakumasu1968urubu;@writing:bergman1977tecknad] have been proposed, no writing system has been adopted widely by any sign language community, and the lack of standards hinders the exchange and unification of resources and applications between projects. -@filhol-von-ascheberg-2024-software introduced a web-based software editor for AZVD, a graphical sign language representation system that combines 2D symbols based on observed spontaneous productions with AZee expression mappings to keep diagrams synthesizable through avatar rendering. +AZVD is a graphical sign language representation system that combines 2D symbols based on observed spontaneous productions with AZee expression mappings to keep diagrams synthesizable through avatar rendering, for which @filhol-von-ascheberg-2024-software introduced a web-based software editor. The figure above depicts two universal notation systems: SignWriting [@writing:sutton1990lessons], a two-dimensional pictographic system, and HamNoSys [@writing:prillwitz1990hamburg], a linear stream of graphemes designed to be machine-readable. From bf6b73b0ba678859608906bd906832424027ba48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: AmitMY Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:20:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Split AZVD: notation system in Representations, editor under Annotation Tools (review feedback) --- src/index.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/index.md b/src/index.md index 52691055..c39c0bf8 100644 --- a/src/index.md +++ b/src/index.md @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ However, they remain a continuous, multidimensional representation that is not a represent signs as discrete visual features. Some systems are written linearly, and others use graphemes in two dimensions. While various universal [@writing:sutton1990lessons;@writing:prillwitz1990hamburg] and language-specific notation systems [@writing:stokoe1960sign;@writing:kakumasu1968urubu;@writing:bergman1977tecknad] have been proposed, no writing system has been adopted widely by any sign language community, and the lack of standards hinders the exchange and unification of resources and applications between projects. -AZVD is a graphical sign language representation system that combines 2D symbols based on observed spontaneous productions with AZee expression mappings to keep diagrams synthesizable through avatar rendering, for which @filhol-von-ascheberg-2024-software introduced a web-based software editor. +AZVD [@filhol-von-ascheberg-2024-software] is a graphical sign language representation system that combines 2D symbols based on observed spontaneous productions with AZee expression mappings to keep diagrams synthesizable through avatar rendering. The figure above depicts two universal notation systems: SignWriting [@writing:sutton1990lessons], a two-dimensional pictographic system, and HamNoSys [@writing:prillwitz1990hamburg], a linear stream of graphemes designed to be machine-readable. @@ -1110,6 +1110,9 @@ Some special features are cross-level links, non-temporal objects, timepoint tra 3D viewing of motion capture data and a project tool for managing whole corpora of annotation files. Anvil installation is [available](http://www.anvil-software.de/download/index.html) for Windows, macOS, and Linux. +##### AZVD Editor +@filhol-von-ascheberg-2024-software introduced a web-based software editor for AZVD diagrams that produces AZee output for avatar rendering. + ##### Other {-} @battisti-etal-2024-advancing presented a transcription and annotation scheme for continuous L1 and L2 data in Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS), introducing conventions for non-manual components and L2 learner errors, and outlined an initial inter-annotator agreement validation approach.