A Colloquial Corpus of Japanese Sign Language: Linguistic Resources for Observing Sign Language Conversations

Bono, Mayumi | Kikuchi, Kouhei | Cibulka, Paul | Osugi, Yutaka

Volume:: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014)
Venue:: Reykjavik, Iceland
Date:: 26 to 31 May 2014
Pages:: 1898–1904
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC 4.0
ACL ID:: L14-1253
ISBN:: 978-2-9517408-8-4

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Languages:: Japanese Sign Language
Corpora:: Colloquial JSL Corpus

Abstract

We began building a corpus of Japanese Sign Language (JSL) in April 2011. The purpose of this project was to increase awareness of sign language as a distinctive language in Japan. This corpus is beneficial not only to linguistic research but also to hearing-impaired and deaf individuals, as it helps them to recognize and respect their linguistic differences and communication styles. This is the first large-scale JSL corpus developed for both academic and public use. We collected data in three ways: interviews (for introductory purposes only), dialogues, and lexical elicitation. In this paper, we focus particularly on data collected during a dialogue to discuss the application of conversation analysis (CA) to signed dialogues and signed conversations. Our annotation scheme was designed not only to elucidate theoretical issues related to grammar and linguistics but also to clarify pragmatic and interactional phenomena related to the use of JSL.

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Mayumi Bono, Kouhei Kikuchi, Paul Cibulka, Yutaka Osugi. 2014. A Colloquial Corpus of Japanese Sign Language: Linguistic Resources for Observing Sign Language Conversations. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014), pages 1898–1904, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{bono-etal-2014-colloquial:lrec,
  author    = {Bono, Mayumi and Kikuchi, Kouhei and Cibulka, Paul and Osugi, Yutaka},
  title     = {A Colloquial Corpus of {J}apanese {S}ign {L}anguage: Linguistic Resources for Observing Sign Language Conversations},
  pages     = {1898--1904},
  editor    = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and Choukri, Khalid and Declerck, Thierry and Loftsson, Hrafn and Maegaard, Bente and Mariani, Joseph and Moreno, Asuncion and Odijk, Jan and Piperidis, Stelios,},
  booktitle = {9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2014)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Reykjavik, Iceland},
  day       = {26--31},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2014},
  isbn      = {978-2-9517408-8-4},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/278_Paper.pdf}
}