Discourse & Pragmatics is a subfield of Semantic Text Processing that deals with the analysis and understanding of language use in context, beyond the surface-level meaning of individual words or sentences. Discourse Analysis focuses on the organization and structure of text and conversation, and how they convey coherence, cohesion, and discourse relations, such as topic shifts, references, and implicatures. Pragmatics focuses on the study of language use in social and communicative situations, and how speakers and listeners use context, knowledge, and inference to convey meaning and achieve their communicative goals.

Semantic Text Processing is a subfield of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that attempts to derive meaning from natural language and helps machines interpret textual data semantically. It involves developing algorithms and models that can understand and represent the semantics of words and sentences, and the relationships between them.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data. The goal is a computer capable of 'understanding' the contents of documents, including the contextual nuances of the language within them. The technology can then accurately extract information and insights contained in the documents as well as categorize and organize the documents themselves.

This paper describes a tool that combines features found in empirical sign language lexicography and in sign language discourse transcription. It supports the user in lexicon building while working on the transcription of a corpus. While it tries to reach a certain level of compatibility with upcoming multimedia annotation tools, it offers a number of unique features considered essential due to the specific nature of sign languages.

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iLex - A tool for Sign Language Lexicography and Corpus Analysis

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