Contributors
ISL-LEX is the outcome of collaborations and contributions from many different people and institutions
Hope E. Morgan (Radboud University): ISL-LEX coordinator, developed phonological coding system, phonological coder
Rama Novogrodsky (University of Haifa): project advisor, contributed signs from the Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) for ISL, provided the subjective frequency ratings and iconicity ratings, Hebrew translations
Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa): project advisor
Debbie Menashe: phonological coder, gathered subjective frequency ratings, sign model in ISL-LEX videos
Ora Ohanin: gathered subjective frequency ratings, sign model in ISL-LEX videos
Roni Beit-Hallahmi: Interpreter, translator, and consultant for phonological coding and data management
Maggalei Shema [מעגלי שמע] (previously The Institute for the Advancement of Deaf Persons in Israel or IADPI): gave permission for the use of videos used in ISL-LEX from their online ISL video dictionary (website currently offline)
Sara Lanesman: Led ISL dictionary project with Yael Kakon at IADPI, language consultant and contributor to original inventory of ISL signs at IADPI
Yael Kakon (previously of IADPI): Led ISL dictionary project with Sara Lanesman
Irit Meir: Linguistic advisor for ISL dictionary project at IADPI
Rose Stamp (Bar-Ilan University): project liaison, provided support for creation of webpages and video instructions, hosted and managed ISL videos online
Naomi Caselli (Boston University): conceptualized and designed the interactive visualization, technical advisor and liaison with Hariri Institute
Zed Sevcikova Sehyr (San Diego State University): conceptualized and designed the interactive visualization
Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University): conceptualized and designed the interactive visualization
Xinyun Cao, Jeff Simeon (Boston University Software & Application Innovation Lab [SAIL] at the Hariri Institute for Computing) developed the software for the interactive visualization
Amit Elbaz, Eti Lankeri, Leah Mendelson, Maor Ben-Ze’ev, Tami Asulin sign models in ISL-LEX videos (from IADPI online dictionary)
FUNDING & DEVELOPMENT OF THE ASL-LEX AND ISL-LEX PLATFORMS:
The original work on ASL-LEX was supported by the National Institutes of Health DC010997 to Karen Emmorey and San Diego State University, a Tufts University Faculty Research Award to Ariel Cohen-Goldberg, and a Tufts University Graduate Research Award to Naomi Caselli.
NSF Award BCS-1918556 to Zed Sevcikova Sehyr and Karen Emmorey NSF Awards BCS-1625954 to Karen Emmorey
NSF Awards BCS-1625793 and BCS-1918252 to Naomi Caselli
NSF Awards BCS-1625761 and BCS-1918261 to Ariel Cohen-Goldberg
FUNDING OF CONTENT IN ISL-LEX & WEBSITE:
BIBI Project - (Understanding the Contribution of Bimodal Bilingualism to Speech Perception during the Preschool Years) Israel Science Foundation, Grant No. 1068/16. Principal Investigator, Rama Novogrodsky
Grammar of the Body - European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme, Grant agreement No. 340140. Principal Investigator, Wendy Sandler
ISL Corpus project - Israel Science Foundation (grant No. 2757/20). Principal Investigator, Rose Stamp