Development of a bilingual corpus of Arabic and Arabic Sign Language based on a signed content

This paper deals with the creation process of a bilingual corpus of Arabic and Arabic Sign Language. This work will be concerned with a challenging research approach that aims to develop a solution that meets communication need of the Arab deaf community. Many sign language corpora have been proposed, but unfortunately, none of them is adapted to Arabic Sign Language (ArSL). To tackle this problem we designed a methodology for developing a bilingual Arabic and Arabic Sign Language corpus. To achieve this, the study will rely on sign content exported from Aljazeera Mubachir Egypt [1] TV news for deaf and hearing-impaired people.