Workshop Proceedings: 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon

This collection of papers stems from the Fifth Workshop on the Representation and Processing of
Sign Languages, held in May 2012 as a satellite to the Language Resources and Evaluation
Conference in Istanbul. While there has been occasional attention for sign languages at the main
LREC conference, the main focus there is on spoken languages in their written and spoken forms.
This series of workshops, however, offers a forum for researchers focussing on sign languages. For
the third time, the workshop had sign language corpora as its main topic. This time, the focus was
on the interaction between corpus and lexicon. More than half of the papers presented contribute to
this topic. Once again, the papers at this workshop clearly identify the potentials of even closer
cooperation between sign linguists and sign language engineers, and we think it is events like this
that contribute a lot to a better understanding between researchers with completely different
backgrounds.