Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- ASL Dictionary(also: Sign Language Dictionary, ASL Lexicon)
- A reference resource for looking up American Sign Language signs and their meanings. Unlike dictionaries for written languages, ASL dictionaries face unique challenges because signs cannot be typed as search queries. Traditional ASL dictionaries organize signs alphabetically by…
- Signbank(also: Auslan Signbank)
- An online dictionary and lexical database for a sign language, typically providing video or image entries for each sign along with metadata such as handshape, region, and usage examples. Auslan Signbank is the preeminent online Auslan dictionary and serves trainee interpreters,…
- WordNet
- A large-scale electronic lexical database of the English language developed at Princeton University, in which nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets) linked by semantic and lexical relations. WordNet is designed to model how…
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