| SignWriting List Archive 1 October 1997 - May 1998 |
February 25, 1998
MESSAGE TO THE SIGNWRITING EMAIL LIST
SUBJECT: Transcription
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:44:12 -0500
From: Mark Mandel <Mark@dragonsys.com>
To: DAC@SignWriting.org
Subject: Re: Help In Research
PLEASE POST THE FOLLOWING:
ASCII-Stokoe Notation for American Sign Language -- on the Web
While writing my dissertation at UC Berkeley, in the late 70s
and early 80s, I used Stokoe, Casterline, & Croneberg's Dictionary
of American Sign Language as a data base, and I developed a way
to transcribe its notation system ("Stokoe notation")
into ASCII. I've written that system up and here it is. Although
several people have sent me cogent and valuable comments on it,
I have for some reason never gotten around to editing them in;
but, from the interest that has been expressed in it, I think
that there's more value to the sign language research community
in having it available, even poorly described, than in waiting
for me to make improvements or corrections that may never come.
The URL is: https://world.std.com/~mam/ASCII-Stokoe.txt
Mark A. Mandel
Senior Linguist
mark@dragonsys.com
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02160, USA : https://www.dragonsys.com/
Personal home page: https://world.std.com/~mam/