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Corpus of Finnish Sign Language

The Corpus of Finnish Sign Language (CFinSL) is a collection of Finnish Sign Language and Finland-Swedish Sign Language from 104 signers of Finland. The Corpus of FinSL is based at the University of Jyväskylä and was constructed under the lead of Tommi Jantunen in a five-year project from 2013–2018.

The recordings took place in a studio of the Audio-visual Research Centre filming two signers sitting opposite each other in front of a blue background. The recordings were made with seven HD cameras placed in five different angles. One camera filming the interviewer, one the total of the two signers, one the bird-view, one per signer filming in a 45-degree angle and one per signer for a close-up of the upper body. A native signer is leading through the tasks.

Languages Finnish Sign Language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language
Size 91 hours recorded (estimate), 107000 tokens annotated
Participants 104 participants
92 patricipants for Finnish Sign Language
12 participants for Finland-Swedish Sign Language
Metadata Format IMDI
Translation Finnish, size unknown
Annotation ID-glosses, codes for lexicalised, depicting, gestural, numeral signs and fingerspelling, see Salonen et al. (2019)
15.25 hours (17%)
Data Format ELAN, SLMotion
Licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Access Open access to 15.25 hours of video with annotation and translation
Webpages Project page: https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/kivi/opiskelu/tutkinto-ohjelmat-ja-oppiaineet/viittomakieli/tutkimus-2/suomen-viittomakielten-korpusprojekti
Dataset: https://korp.csc.fi/download/cfinsl/
Meta share entry: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2019012321
Institution University of Jyväskylä

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Common tasks used in this corpus

Task Free conversation
Corpus Languages Finnish Sign Language , Finland-Swedish Sign Language
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Data available none
Task Frog Story
Corpus Languages Finnish Sign Language , Finland-Swedish Sign Language
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Task Mr. Bean
Corpus Languages Finnish Sign Language , Finland-Swedish Sign Language
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Task Snowman Story
Corpus Languages Finnish Sign Language , Finland-Swedish Sign Language
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Task Subject areas
Corpus Languages Finnish Sign Language , Finland-Swedish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0 (work, hobby)
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This entry was last modified on 7 August 2023.