Prof. Dr. Christian Rathmann

Christian Rathmann is the project leader of the DGS-Corpus project. He is a member of the executive team and acts in management. To his wide scope of duties belongs the linguistic supervision of the project, data collection building up a network of contact persons and the promotion of junior scientists. His further field of tasks are public relations on various stages and representing the DGS-Corpus project on international meetings.

Thomas Hanke

Thomas Hanke is a member of the executive team since the project started. He holds the position of the project manager and is primarily responsible for the development of transcription tools and -conventions and the technical implementation of HamNoSys in these systems. Within his scope of duties he is also engaged in legal and ethic aspects of sign language corpora.

Susanne König

Susanne König has worked in the development of sign language dictionaries for technical terms for specialised areas since 1997. She has been a scientific project worker at the Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf of the University of Hamburg since 2002. Since the DGS-Corpus project started she has been a member of the executive team. Her tasks are public relations, supervision and training of regional contact persons and training of student assistants amongst others.

Dr. Reiner Konrad

Reiner Konrad has been a research assistant at the Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf of the University of Hamburg since 1993. He has been a member of the executive team of the DGS-Corpus project since the project started. His key activities are language documentation, corpus linguistic, lexicography and lexicology of sign languages and corpus-based lexicography of sign language dictionaries for technical terms for specialised areas. In 2009 he received his doctor´s degree.

Gabriele Langer

Gabriele Langer belongs to the executive team of the DGS-Corpus project from the very first. Her tasks within this project are the development of elicitation materials and -methods. She is also busy with conceptional enhancements in transcription, analysis and lexicographical description. Futhermore she develops training materials, does training courses and supervises the student assistants. Another task of hers is the documentation of the DGS-Corpus project.

Patricia Barbeito Rey-Geißler

Patricia Barbeito Rey-Geißler is state approved lecturer for Sign Language. She has taught German Sign Language and International Sign at various universities and other institutes.

Dolly Blanck

Dolly Blanck has been a member of the DGS-Corpus team since 2009. Before that she worked in the development of sign language dictionaries for technical terms for specialised areas at the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf at the University of Hamburg.

She is engaged in HamNoSys, a transciption system for signs and offers trainings in that. Moreover she is working in transcription within the DGS-Corpus project and is supervising and training student assistants working in that field.

Andreas Hanß

Andreas Hanß has been working for the DGS Corpus project since December 2012. He is responsible for IT support as well as for the maintenance of database and video server infrastructure. Additionally, editing and archiving digital videos, co-developing of transcription tools and SQL querying the transcription database also fall into his scope of work.

Ilona Hofmann

Ilona Hofmann has worked as a lecturer for sign language and in various projects on sign language dictionaries for technical terms for specialised areas at the Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf of the University of Hamburg. Her focuses were census, transcription and analysis. She was also an actor for sign language videos. She joined the DGS-Corpus team at the project start in 2009. Her tasks are transcription and supervising the student assistants.

Rekha jayaprakash

Rekha Jayaprakash joined the DGS-corpus project as a research assistant at the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf in April 2012. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering and a Master’s in Mechatronics Engineering. She worked as a Computer Vision scientist in sign language gesture recognition and analysis at CSIR-CMERI, India from August 2010 until March 2012. Her responsibilities in the DGS-corpus project are developing Computer Vision techniques for continuous sign language segmentation in video data in order to speed up the annotation process.

Olga Jeziorski

Olga Jeziorski is a member of the DGS-Corpus team right from the start. Her activities within the project besides transcription are the training and supervising of the student assistants working in the field of transcription. Furthermore she does the illustrations for the elicitation materials.

Lutz König

Lutz König has been a member of the DGS-Corpus team since 2009. His tasks are the training and supervision of contact persons and the support at censuses regarding technical issues and content. He supervises the student assistants and does quality checks of the transcriptions. Before he joined the team of the DGS-Corpus project he had worked in the development of various sign language dictionaries for technical terms for specialised areas at the Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf of the University of Hamburg.

Silke Matthes

Silke Matthes studied Sign Languages at the university of Hamburg and holds a Master's degree. Since 2009 she has been a research assistant at the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf. At first, she worked in the EU project Dicta-Sign. In April 2012 she joined the DGS-corpus team. The focus of her work is on the development of a dictionary of basic vocabulary in DGS. Also, she is engaged in the development and refinement of transcription conventions.

Anja Regen

Anja Regen holds a Master's degree in Sign Languages, Russian and Business Administration from the university of Hamburg. In 2010 she joined the EU project Dicta-Sign and has been part of the DGS-corpus team since April 2012. She is primarily involved in transcription and especially in the development and documentation of transcription methods. Also, the realization of the transcription conventions in the transcripts, the classification of problems and the work of the student co-workers are supervised by her.

Uta Salden

Since 2007 Uta Salden holds a diploma as sign language interpreter (University of Hamburg). As a researcher she was involved in a sign language project and since August 2012 she has been part of the DGS Corpus staff. Her task is to manage the translation of a substantial part of the DGS data into written German.

Sven Wagner

Sven Wagner received his degree in phonetics from the University of Hamburg at the end of 2008. He joined the DGS-Corpus project in February 2010. His key activities within the project are the iLex-database and the development of complex SQL queries. He is also busy with the management of the corpus. This covers the enhancement of the iLex database (esp. metadata) and the development of mechanisms for consistency checks.