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Coding for 7 years.
ASL-LEX is a database of lexical and phonological properties of nearly 3,000 signs in American Sign Language. This project is a collaboration between the Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience at San Diego State University and the Psycholinguistics and Linguistics Lab at Tufts University. ASL-LEX is a searchable database of subjective frequency ratings, iconicity ratings, lexical properties (e.g., initialized signs; lexical class), and six phonological features from which neighborhood densities have been calculated. ASL-LEX also provides, reference video clips, English translations and, for a subset of signs, alternative translations.
The visualization is currently hosted on Github Pages.
View the older interface at the ASL 1.0 Link
It consists of two visualizations, a Network Graph that depicts the lexicon as a network graph where nodes are connected if they have phonological and lexical similarities. Hover on a node to view it's neighbors

Click on it for more information about that sign.

You can also filter the network by applying various filtering criteria.

Hover over any property to view more info about that property

Hover over a sign to view more quick info about that sign

There is also a Pair Plots visualization which depcits distribution of signs across various pairs of properties such as Lexical Class, Neighborhood Density, Iconicity and Frequency.
You can drag to select a subset of signs on either visualization and view the subset in the other view.
For more ways to explore the data, please reach out to the team at hicsail@bu.edu
We use BU's Shared Computing cluster to run the graoh generation scripts.
To run it on the SCC:
qsub -o /project/hariri/asl-lex/logs/ -N RUN_PYND /project/hariri/asl-lex/data-analysis/scripts/default-job.sh
You can change this by using another edge criterion file from the scripts folder.asl-playground.ipynb file under notebooks, run the notebook to obtain the JSON files for the visualization, namely graph.json, constraints.json and sign-props.jsonThe content on this website is available under a CC-By-NC license, meaning you can reuse and remix this content with attribution for non-commercial purposes. If you would like to cite it, please use the following: Caselli, N., Sevcikova, Z., Cohen-Goldberg, A., Emmorey, K. (in prep). ASL-LEX: A Lexical Database for ASL.
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