Carol Neidle

Prof. Neidle taught courses in general linguistics and French linguistics, and she also directs the American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project (ASLLRP). She has been conducting research on ASL linguistics and the development of computational tools (including SignStream®) to facilitate linguistic analysis of signed languages; she has collaborated with computer scientists on sign language recognition from video and development of applications based on this research. Several different types of experimental resources and analyzed data are shared publicly (see the ASL Sign Bank, e.g.: https://dai.cs.rutgers.edu/dai/s/signbank). This research has been funded by NSF for the last 30 years (https://www.bu.edu/asllrp/nsf.html). She is co-PI on a current NSF grant, “Collaborative Research: Linguistically-Driven Sign Recognition from Continuous Signing for American Sign Language (ASL).” Books include The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure and The Role of Case in Russian Syntax. A brief bio is available here: https://www.bu.edu/asllrp/carol-bio.html. See her home page (https://www.bu.edu/asllrp/carol.html) and the ASLLRP website (https://www.bu.edu/asllrp/) for further details about her research.