To get an introduction to the ASL Signbank and what we're doing in ASL
visit our YouTube playlist of short explainer videos in ASL and one short interview
Here's a conference submission that explains how we set up relations between signs in the ASL Signbank.
For a guide to the ASL Signbank, our ID Glossing principles, and our annotation conventions
Hochgesang, Julie A. (2025). ASL Signbank, ID glossing, and SLAASh Annotation Conventions, Version 4.0. figshare. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30582434
Also see the following link for a template that links to ASL Signbank as ECV:
Hochgesang, Julie (2025). Collections of ASL for Research and Documentation (CARD) ELAN template file (etf). figshare. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29205617.v2
Project that supported the initial development of the ASL Signbank
Project website https://slla.lab.uconn.edu/slaaash/
"ASL Signbank" (Cambridge Element, part of Sign Language series)
Hochgesang, J. A. (2026). ASL Signbank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009734349
Thanks to Erin Wilkinson and David Quinto-Pozos, editors of Sign Language series with Cambridge Elements, for their support!
More documentation about the ASL Signbank
Visit our Figshare collection for more presentations and publications related to the ASL Signbank. Please note that we used to use Dropbox Showcase which was discontinued in January 2021.
Hochgesang, Julie; Lillo-Martin, Diane; Crasborn, Onno (2020). ASL Signbank. figshare. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5233700.v2