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Neidle, C., J. Kegl, D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, and R.G. Lee (2000)
The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.Journal articles and book chapters
Carol Neidle [2016] "Syntax" in Genie Gertz and Patrick Boudreault, eds., The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia. SAGE Publications. 650-656.
BU Open Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27497Carol Neidle and Joan Nash [2015], "Chapter 1. American Sign Language," in Julie Bakken Jepsen, Goedele De Clerck, Sam Lutalo Kiingi, and William B. McGregor, eds., Sign Languages of the World: A Comparative Handbook. Mouton de Gruyter. Joan Nash [2015], "Chapter 25. Martha's Vineyard Sign Language," in Julie Bakken Jepsen, Goedele De Clerck, Sam Lutalo Kiingi, and William B. McGregor, eds., Sign Languages of the World: A Comparative Handbook. Mouton de Gruyter. Jingjing Liu, Bo Liu, Shaoting Zhang, Fei Yang, Peng Yang, Dimitris N. Metaxas, and Carol Neidle [2014] Non-manual Grammatical Marker Recognition based on Multi-scale, Spatio-temporal Analysis of Head Pose and Facial Expressions. Image and Vision Computing 30:10 (special issue: Best of Face and Gesture 2013 ).
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262885614000468
http://webpages.charlotte.edu/~szhang16/paper/IVC_ASL_2014.pdfCarol Neidle and Joan Nash [2012] "Noun Phrase." Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach, and Bencie Woll, eds., Sign Language: An International Handbook.Walter de Gruyter. Zucchi, S., C. Neidle, C. Geraci, Q. Duffy, and C. Cecchetto (2010) "Functional markers in sign languages: The case of FATTO and FINISH." In Diane Brentari, ed., Sign Languages: A Cambridge Language Survey. Cambridge University Press. C. Neidle (2009) "Now we see it, now we don't: Agreement puzzles in ASL." Linda Uyechi and Lian Hee Wee, eds., Reality Exploration and Discovery: Pattern Interaction in Language & Life. Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University. Neidle, C. and R.G. Lee (2008) WELL, WHAT Is It? Discovery of a New Particle in ASL." In K. A. Lindgren, D. DeCLuca, and D.J. Napoli, eds., Signs & Voices: Deaf Culture, Identity, Language, and Arts. Gallaudet University Press. pp. 100-116. Tsechpenakis, G., D. Metaxas, and C. Neidle (2008) "Combining Discrete and Continuous 3D Trackers," In B. Rosenhahn, R. Klette, and D. Metaxas, eds., Human Motion - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation. Springer. pp. 133-158. Neidle, C. (2007) "Interplay between manual and non-manual expressions in American Sign Language (ASL)." In Jane Grimshaw, Joan Maling, Chris Manning, Jane Simpson, and Annie Zaenen, eds., Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: A Festschrift for Joan Bresnan. pp. 127-138. Tsechpenakis, G., D. N. Metaxas, and C. Neidle (2006) "Learning-based Dynamic Coupling of Discrete and Continuous Trackers." Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 104 (2-3), Nov/Dec 2006. pp. 140-156, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077314206001068. Neidle, C. and R.G. Lee (2006) "Syntactic Agreement across Language Modalities: American Sign Language." João Costa and Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva, eds., Studies on agreement. John Benjamins.
Neidle, C. and R.G. Lee (2004) "Language, Gestural." Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (third edition). Elsevier. Neidle, C. (2003) "Language across modalities: ASL focus and question constructions." Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2, pp. 71-98.
Conlin, F., P. Hagstrom, and C. Neidle (2003) "A particle of indefiniteness in American Sign Language." Linguistic Discovery volume 2, 2003. Neidle, C. and D. MacLaughlin (2002) "The Distribution of Functional Projections in ASL: Evidence from Overt Expressions of Syntactic Features." In G. Cinque, ed., Functional Structure in the DP and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press. pp. 195-224. Neidle, C. (2002) SignStream: A Database Tool for Research on Visual-Gestural Language.
In Brita Bergman, Penny Boyes-Braem, Thomas Hanke, and Elena Pizzuto, eds., Sign Transcription and Database Storage of Sign Information, a special issue of Sign Language and Linguistics 4 (2001):1/2, pp. 203-214.Neidle, C., S. Sclaroff, and V. Athitsos (2001) SignStream: A Tool for Linguistic and Computer Vision Research on Visual-Gestural Language Data. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers 33:3,pp. 311-320. MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, B. Bahan, and R. G. Lee (2000) Morphological Inflections and Syntactic Representations of Person and Number in ASL. In M. Blondel and L. Tuller (eds), Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes 29 : Langage et surdité, pp. 73-100. Bahan, B., J. Kegl, R.G. Lee, D. MacLaughlin, and C. Neidle (2000) The Licensing of Null Arguments in American Sign Language. Linguistic Inquiry 31:1, pp. 1-27. Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, R.G. Lee, B. Bahan, and J. Kegl (1998) The Rightward Analysis of Wh-movement in ASL: A Reply to Petronio and Lillo-Martin 1997. Language 74:4, pp. 819-831.
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- There is also a longer article on this subject, by the same authors, that may be downloaded over the Internet: Wh-Questions in ASL: A Case for Rightward Movement.
Neidle, C. and D. MacLaughlin (1998) SignStream: A Tool for Linguistic Research on Signed Languages. Sign Language and Linguistics 1:1, pp. 111-114. Neidle, C., B. Bahan, D. MacLaughlin, R.G. Lee, and J. Kegl (1998) Realizations of Syntactic Agreement in American Sign Language: Similarities between the Clause and the Noun Phrase.
Studia Linguistica 52:3, pp. 191-226.Neidle, C., J. Kegl, B. Bahan, D. Aarons, and D. MacLaughlin (1997) Rightward Wh-Movement in American Sign Language. In D. Beerman [sic], D. LeBlanc, and H. van Riemsdijk (eds), Rightward Movement. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 247-278. [errata] Lee, R.G., C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, and J. Kegl (1997) Role Shift in ASL: A Syntactic Look at Direct Speech. In C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, and R.G. Lee (eds), Syntactic Structure and Discourse Function: An Examination of Two Constructions in American Sign Language. American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project Report No. 4, Boston University, Boston, MA. May 1997, pp. 24-45. Hoza, J., C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, J. Kegl, and B. Bahan (1997) A Unified Syntactic Account of Rhetorical Questions in American Sign Language. In C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, and R.G. Lee (eds), Syntactic Structure and Discourse Function: An Examination of Two Constructions in American Sign Language. American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project Report No. 4,
Boston University, Boston, MA. May 1997,pp. 1-23.Kegl, J., C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, J. Hoza, and B. Bahan (1996) The Case for Grammar, Order and Position in ASL: A Reply to Bouchard and Dubuisson. Sign Language Studies 90, 1996, pp. 1-23. Bahan, B., J. Kegl, D. MacLaughlin, and C. Neidle (1995) Convergent Evidence for the Structure of Determiner Phrases in American Sign Language. In L. Gabriele, D. Hardison and R. Westmoreland (eds), FLSM VI, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America, Volume Two. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications, pp. 1-12. Aarons, D., B. Bahan, J. Kegl, and C. Neidle (1995) Lexical Tense Markers in American Sign Language. In K. Emmorey, and J. Reilly (eds), Language, Gesture, and Space. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 225-253. Shepard-Kegl, J., C. Neidle, and J. Kegl (1995) Legal Ramifications of an Incorrect Analysis of Tense in ASL. Journal of Interpretation, 7: 1,pp. 53-70. Aarons, D., B. Bahan, J. Kegl, and C. Neidle (1994) Subjects and Agreement in American Sign Language. In I. Ahlgren, B. Bergman and M. Brennan (eds), Perspectives on Sign Language Structure: Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Sign Language Research, Volume 1. Durham, England: International Sign Linguistics Association, pp. 13-28. Aarons, D., B. Bahan, J. Kegl, and C. Neidle (1992) Clausal Structure and a Tier for Grammatical Marking in American Sign Language. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 15:103-142. For more recent articles, and further details, please see http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/talks.html.
Dimitris Metaxas, Mark Dilsizian, and Carol Neidle, Linguistically Driven Framework for Computationally Efficient and Scalable Sign Recognition, Proceedings of LREC 2018. Miyagawa, Japan, May 2018.
BU Open Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2144/30048
Carol Neidle, Augustine Opoku, Gregory Dimitriadis, and Dimitris Metaxas, NEW Shared & Interconnected ASL Resources: SignStream® 3 Software; DAI 2 for Web Access to Linguistically Annotated Video Corpora; and a Sign Bank. 8th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Involving the Language Community. pp. 147-154. LREC 2018. Miyagawa, Japan, May 2018.
BU Open Access: https://open.bu.edu/handle/2144/30047
Dimitris Metaxas, Mark Dilsizian, and Carol Neidle, Scalable ASL Recognition using Model-based Machine Learning and Linguistically Annotated Corpora. 8th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Involving the Language Community. pp. 127-132. LREC 2018. Miyagawa, Japan, May 2018.
BU Open Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2144/30049
Polina Yanovich, Carol Neidle, and Dimitris Metaxas, Detection of Major ASL Sign Types in Continuous Signing for ASL Recognition. Proceedings of LREC 2016. Portoroz, Slovenia, May 2016.
BU Open Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27492Mark Dilsizian, Zhiqian Tang, Dimitris Metaxas, Matt Huenerfauth, and Carol Neidle, The Importance of 3D Motion Trajectories for Computer-based Sign Recognition. Proceedings of the 7th Wor.kshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining. LREC 2016 Portoroz, Slovenia. May 28, 2016.
BU Open Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27494Hernisa Kacorri, Ali Raza Syed, Matt Huenerfauth, and Carol Neidle, Centroid-based Examplar Selection of ASL Non-Manual Expressions using Multidimensional Dynamic Time Warping and MPEG-4 Features. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining. LREC 2016. Portoroz, Slovenia. May 28, 2016.
BU Open Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27493Carol Neidle, Jingjing Liu, Bo Liu, Xi Peng, Christian Vogler, and Dimitris Metaxas, Computer-based Tracking, Analysis, and Visualization of Linguistically Significant Nonmanual Events in American Sign Language (ASL). Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel, LREC 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 31, 2014.
Bo Liu, Jingjing Liu, Xiang Yu, Dimitris Metaxas and Carol Neidle, 3D Face Tracking and Multi-Scale, Spatio-temporal Analysis of Linguistically Significant Facial Expressions and Head Positions in ASL. Proceedings of LREC 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 30, 2014. Mark Dilsizian, Polina Yanovich, Shu Wang, Carol Neidle and Dimitris Metaxas, A New Framework for Sign Language Recognition based on 3D Handshape Identification and Linguistic Modeling. Proceedings of LREC 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 29, 2014.
Jingjing Liu, Bo Liu, Shaoting Zhang, Fei Yang, Peng Yang, Dimitris N. Metaxas, and Carol Neidle, "Recognizing Eyebrow and Periodic Head Gestures Using CRFs for Non-Manual Grammatical Marker Detection in ASL." Proceedings of FG 2013: 10th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Shanghai China, April 2013.
Carol Neidle and Christian Vogler, "A New Web Interface to Facilitate Access to Corpora: Development of the ASLLRP Data Access Interface," Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon, LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.
Carol Neidle, Ashwin Thangali, and Stan Sclaroff, "Challenges in the Development of the American Sign Language Lexicon Video Dataset (ASLLVD) Corpus," Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon, LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey. Dimitris Metaxas, Bo Liu, Fei Yang, Peng Yang, Nicholas Michael, and Carol Neidle, "Recognition of Nonmanual Markers in American Sign Language (ASL) Using Non-Parametric Adaptive 2D-3D Face Tracking," Proceedings of LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey. Zoya Gavrilov, Stan Sclaroff, Carol Neidle, and Sven Dickinson, "Detecting Reduplication in Videos of American Sign Language," Proceedings of LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey. Nicholas Michael, Peng Yang, Qinqshan Liu, Dimitris Metaxas, and Carol Neidle, "A Framework for the Recognition of Nonmanual Markers in Segmented Sequences of American Sign Language," British Machine Vision Conference 2011, Dundee, Scotland, August 31, 2011. Ashwin Thangali, Joan P. Nash, Carol Neidle, and Stan Sclaroff (2011) "Exploiting Phonological Constraints for Handshape Inference in ASL Video," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vol. (to appear), 2011. Haijing Wang, Alexandra Stefan, Sajjad Moradi, Vassilis Athitsos, Carol Neidle, and Farhad Kamangar (2010) "A System for Large Vocabulary Sign Search." Proceedings of the Workshop on Sign, Gesture and Activity (SGA), September 2010.
Vassilis Athitsos, Carol Neidle, Stan Sclaroff, Joan Nash, Alexandra Stefan, Ashwin Thangali, Haijing Wang, and Quan Yuan (2010), "Large Lexicon Project: American Sign Language Video Corpus and Sign Language Indexing/Retrieval Algorithms." Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies. LREC, Malta, May 22-23, 2010. Nicholas Michael, Carol Neidle, and Dimitris Metaxas (2010), "Computer-based recognition of facial expressions in ASL: from face tracking to linguistic interpretation." Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies.LREC, Malta, May 22-23, 2010.
Nicholas Michael, Dimitris Metaxas, and Carol Neidle (2009), "Spatial and Temporal Pyramids for Grammatical Expression Recognition of American Sign Language." Proceedings of the Eleventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Philadelphia, PA, October 26-28. 2009.
Carol Neidle, Nicholas Michael, Joan Nash, and Dimitris Metaxas (2009) "A Method for Recognition of Grammatically Significant Head Movements and Facial Expressions, Developed through use of a Linguistically Annotated Video Corpus." Proceedings of the Workshop on Formal Approaches to Sign Languages, held as part of the 21st European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Bordeaux, France, July 20-31, 2009.
Vassilis Athitsos, Carol Neidle, Stan Sclaroff, Joan Nash, Alexandra Stefan, Quan Yuan, and Ashwin Thangali (2008) "The ASL lexicon video dataset." IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis. June 2008.
Philippe Dreuw, Carol Neidle, Vassilis Athitsos, Stan Sclaroff, and Hermann Ney (2008) "Benchmark Databases for Video-Based Automatic Sign Language Recognition," the sixth international Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Morocco. May 2008. Tsechpenakis, G., D. Metaxas, O. Hadjiliadis, and C. Neidle (2006) "Robust Online Change-point Detection in Video Sequences." 2nd IEEE Workshop on Vision for Human Computer Interaction (V4HCI), in conjunction with IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '06), New York, NY, June 2006. Castelli, T., M. Betke, and C. Neidle (2006) "Facial feature tracking and occlusion recovery in American Sign Language." In A. Fred and A. Lourenço, editors, Pattern Recognition in Information Systems: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Pattern Recogntion in Information Systems - PRIS 2006, pages 81-90, Paphos, Cyprus, May 2006.
He, W., X. Huang, G. Tsechpenakis, D. Metaxas, and C. Neidle (2005) Discovery of Informative Unlabeled Data for Improved Learning. In the Modeling People and Human Interaction Workshop of ICCV 2005: the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (Beijing, China). Tsechpenakis, G., D. Metaxas, and C. Neidle (2005) Learning-based dynamic coupling of discrete and continuous trackers. In the Modeling People and Human Interaction Workshop of ICCV 2005: the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (Beijing, China). Bahan, B., J. Kegl, D. MacLaughlin, and C. Neidle (1995) Convergent Evidence for the Structure of Determiner Phrases in American Sign Language. In L. Gabriele, D. Hardison and R. Westmoreland (eds), FLSM VI, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America, Volume Two. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications, 1-12.
For more recent reports, and further details, please see: http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/reports.html.
No. 18 Neidle, C. and A. Opoku (2020)
A User's Guide to the American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project (ASLLRP) Data Access Interface (DAI)2 — Verion 2with an addendum about newly available data as of March 2021, available from http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/about-datasets.pdf
No. 17 Neidle, C. (2020)
What's New in SignStream® 3.3.0?No. 16 Neidle, C. (2018)
What's New in SignStream® 3.1.0?No. 15 Neidle, C. (2017)
A User's Guide to SignStream® 3No. 14 Duffy, Q. (2007)
The ASL Perfect Formed by Preverbal FINISHNo. 13 Neidle, C. (2007)
SignStream Annotation: Addendum to Conventions used for the American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project.
No. 12 Neidle, C. and R.G. Lee (2005)
The Syntactic Organization of American Sign Language: A SynopsisNo. 11 Neidle, C. (2002)
SignStream Annotation: Conventions used for the American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project.No. 10 Neidle, C. (2000)
SignStream: A Database Tool for Research on Visual-Gestural Language.No. 9 MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, and D. Greenfield (2000)
SignStream User's Guide, Version 2.0.No. 8 MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, and D. Greenfield (1999)
SignStream User's Guide, Version 1.5.No. 7 MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, R.G. Lee, and D. Greenfield (1998)
SignStream User's Guide, Version 1.0.No. 6 Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, R.G. Lee, B. Bahan, and J. Kegl (1998)
Wh-Questions in ASL: A Case for Rightward Movement.No. 5 Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, R.G. Lee, and J. Kegl (1997)
The SignStream Project.No. 4 Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, and R.G. Lee, eds. (1997)
Syntactic Structure and Discourse Function: An Examination of Two Constructions in American Sign Language.No. 3 MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, and R.G. Lee (1996)
Design Specifications for SignStream, A Multimedia Database Tool for Language Research.MacLaughlin, D., D. Greenfield, and C. Neidle (1997)
Addendum I to the SignStream Design Specifications.No. 2 Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, J. Kegl, and B. Bahan (1996)
Non-Manual Correlates of Syntactic Agreement in American Sign Language.
Computer Science Technical Reports No. 2005-024 Castelli, T. J., M. Betke, and C. Neidle (July 7, 2005).
Facial Feature Tracking and Occlusion Recovery in American Sign Language