The Sign Language Interchange Format

This repository contains code and documentation of the Sign Language Interchange Format (SLIF).
It accompanies the publication M. Schulder, S. Bigeard, T. Hanke and M. Kopf (2023). "The Sign Language Interchange Format: Harmonising Sign Language Datasets for Computational Processing" in Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT), Rhodos, Greece.

Main files are:
- schema.md: SLIF Schema documentation (click link for a nicely rendered version of the file)
- dgs2slif.py: Converter from Public DGS Corpus to SLIF
- bsl2slif.py: Converter from BSL Corpus to SLIF
- slif2easiernotation.py: Converter from SLIF to EASIER Notation
- compute_synchronicity.py: Automatically compute how tags and translations overlap in time.