Auslan Corpus
The Auslan Corpus collects 100 Auslan signers from Australia. The project is led by Trevor Johnston; the recordings were made between 2004 and 2007, annotation work is still ongoing.
Each session took three hours and contained an interview, retelling stories, recalling personal events, responding to a questionnaire, engaging in spontaneous conversation, and responding in Auslan to various stimuli. The participants were recorded in pairs, sitting in front of a blue background. Data collection was co-ordinated and organised with the local deaf community. A deaf native signers and long-term resident of the city of collection led through the recording sessions.
Two digital video cameras were used for recording. The data has been split up into 1700 video clips ranging between 2 and 20 minutes.
| Language | Auslan |
|---|---|
| Size |
300 hours recorded
3 terabyte of data |
| Participants |
100 participants
Deaf Native and near-native signers 4 age groups: <30, 31–50, 51–70, >70 5 sites: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth (20 signer in each site) 7 dialects: Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Northern, Perth, Southern, Sydney |
| Metadata Format | IMDI, ELAR HTML |
| Translation | not available |
| Annotation |
See Johnston (2019)
Further information at https://auslan.org.au/about/annotations/ 357 movies annotated in various levels of detail |
| Data Format | ELAN |
| Licence | not available |
| Access |
463 files require registration
385 files require confirmed registration Annotation restricted to Aesop's fables |
| Webpages |
Project page: https://auslan.org.au/about/corpus/
Dataset: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/d8a991a5-d8cc-4f85-a5ff-c37279ebb625 |
| Institution | Macquarie University |
| Publications |
Johnston and Schembri (2006)
https://auslan.org.au/about/corpus/ |
Cite as
Johnston, Trevor. 2008. Auslan Corpus. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0000-D7CF-8. Accessed on [insert date here].
Common tasks used in this corpus
Articles mentioned above
- Trevor Johnston (2019). "Auslan Corpus Annotation Guidelines". Annotation Convention. 105 pp.
- Trevor Johnston, Adam Schembri (2006). "Issues in the creation of a digital archive of a signed language". In: Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork: "From creation to archive and back" (Sydney, Australia). Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press, pp. 7-16. ISBN: 978-1-920898-50-2.
This entry was last modified on 6 January 2023.