Dr. Julie Hochgesang

Dr. Julie Hochgesang, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Gallaudet University. 

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She is a Deaf linguist who works on documentation of signed languages, ethics of working with signed language communities and making linguistics accessible to the communities. 

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She has contributed to ongoing efforts to create accessible collections for the ASL communities, such as Sign Language Annotation, Archiving, and Sharing project, which led to the creation of ASL Signbank, a publicly accessible website of signs linked to ID glosses to be used for annotation of ASL video datasets.

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