Week 4 (June 8 - June 14)

less than 1 minute read | Written by Nickil Maveli

Since this being the start of the coding period, I did get in touch with my primary mentor, Tiago. We mutually agree that querying the Red Hen dataset that have a particular gesture type can be a good way to investigate construal meaning relationships between the different linguistic elements. To narrow down the numerous possibilities of gesture types, we only consider hand gestures for our ablation.

We choose the following parameters:

Gesture Type	Values
Body part	left hand, right hand, both hands
Axis	vertical, horizontal/lateral
Direction	upward, downward, leftward, rightward, diagonal right up, diagonal left up, diagonal right down, diagonal left down
Shape	straight, arced

To begin with, we want the algorithm to be capable of understanding only the Prominence dimension which is relevant in the case of gestures and more widespread.