Dr. Sung-Eun Hong

Sung-Eun Hong studied sign language at the University of Hamburg and wrote her dissertation about agreement verbs in Korean Sign Language. Before she joined the DGS-Corpus project she was a research assistant in the EU-project ViSiCAST. Her tasks were the preparation and coordination of elicitation materials. Sung-Eun Hong was a member of the DGS-Corpus team from 2009-2012.

Thimo Kleyboldt

After his studies of education in Frankfurt and Hamburg Thimo Kleyboldt started working as a research assistant in various projects on DGS grammar and sign language dictionaries for technical terms for specialised areas at the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf. His key activity within the project was technical support on the data collection sites in Germany. In parallel, he taught DGS at the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf. He is also a contact person for the Hamburg and Northern Lower Saxony. Thimo Kleyboldt belonged to the DGS-Corpus team from 2009-2011.

Rie Nishio

Rie Nishio was a member of the DGS-Corpus project team right from the start. Her tasks were training and supervising of the student assistants as well as the the monitoring and improvement of transcripts. She was also engaged in the development and testing of elicitation materials and she addressed herself to the enhancement of transcription conventions. Rie Nishio was member of the DGS-Corpus team from 2009-2012.

Stephanie Vorwerk

Stephanie Vorwerk holds a degree in computer science and was a member of the DGS-Corpus team right from the start until August 2012. Within the range of activies of her engagement in the DGS-Corpus project she supervised the technical aspects of the census with a main focus on the postproduction of the videodata. Furthermore she was responsible for the design, the technical implementation and updating the website of the project. In addition she also created the logo of the DGS-Corpus project. Another task of Stephanie Vorwerk was the design and the technical implementation of the user survey.