Corpus of Finnish Sign Language
The Corpus of Finnish Sign Language (CFinSL) is a collection of FinSLFinnish Sign Language and FinSSLFinland-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 |
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| Size | 91 hours recorded (estimate), 107000 tokens annotated |
| Participants |
104 participants
92 patricipants for FinSLFinnish Sign Language 12 participants for FinSSLFinland-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://www.kielipankki.fi/download/cfinsl/
Meta share entry: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2019012321
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| Institution | University of Jyväskylä |
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Common tasks used in this corpus
Hide/Show tasks
| Task | Free conversation |
|---|---|
| Corpus Languages | Finnish Sign Language , Finland-Swedish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | none |
| Task | Frog Story |
| Corpus Languages | Finnish Sign Language , Finland-Swedish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | none |
| Task | Mr. Bean |
| Corpus Languages | Finnish Sign Language , Finland-Swedish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | none |
| Task | Snowman Story |
| Corpus Languages | Finnish Sign Language , Finland-Swedish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | none |
| Task | Subject areas |
| Corpus Languages | Finnish Sign Language , Finland-Swedish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 (work, hobby) |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | none |
References
Primary references
- Juhana Salonen, Tuija Wainio, Antti Kronqvist, Jarkko Keränen (2019). "Suomen Viittomakielten Korpusprojektin (CFINSL) Annotointiohjeet". Annotation Convention. 40 pp.
This entry was last modified on 27 March 2025.