Dictionary Deit-Libras in ELiS project: analyzing ELiS

Abstract

In 2014, Reading and Writing Laboratory of Sign Languages developed an ambitious research project which consisted in writing in ELiS all the signs from the dictionary Novo DEIT-Libras. ELiS is the Brazilian system of sign language writing and Novo DEIT-Libras is the largest dictionary of Brazilian Sign Language nowadays. The main goal of the project was, by writing all of the dictionary’s entries, to accomplish possible adjustments to ELiS, in respect to its rules or visographemes. Besides this, as a  esearch product, we planned to create a data base with the signs  resented in the dictionary and written in ELiS, in order to enable electronic search of Libras data, via visographemes or visographeme  roups. To the realization of the research, we developed specific methodology based on writing and ensuing review stages. Even though  e needed to enhance some changes in some of the rules and  isographemes, these were minor changes, which only serves to prove  he already known efficiency of ELiS in representing Libras.