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Corpus Vlaamse Gebarentaal

The Corpus Vlaamse Gebarentaal is a collection of Flemish Sign Language video material from 120 signers from the Flemish Region of Belgium. The project Corpus VGT is located at the University of Gent and ran from July 2012 to November 2015. The project was lead by Mieke Van Herreweghe and Myriam Vermeerbergen.

For the recordings signers came into a studio in pairs and were place sitting in front of a blue background. In total three cameras were used, one per signer and one for a total view. A moderator was leading through the tasks.

The Corpus Vlaamse Gebarentaal is working on a link between their ELAN files and Global Signbank - VGT, where all annotated signs are stored.

Language Flemish Sign Language
Size 140 hours recorded, 5TB of data
Participants 120 participants
6 age groups: 12–18, 19–25, 26–35, 36–50, 51–70, 71–99 years
60 female, 60 male
From 5 regions: Antwerpen, Limburg, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaams-Brabant, West-Vlaanderen
Metadata Format not available
Translation Dutch, size unknown
Annotation See Verstraete et al. (2015)
Data Format ELAN
Licence CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Access Public access via browsable homepage
Restricted access for teachers to more videos and annotation requires confirmed registration
Restricted access for students to more videos requires confirmed registration
Restricted access for researchers to all videos, annotation and metadata requires confirmed registration
Webpage Project page: https://www.corpusvgt.be/
Institution Universiteit Gent

Cite as

Van Herreweghe, Mieke, Vermeerbergen, Myriam, Demey, Eline, De Durpel, Hannes, Nyffels, Hilde, Verstraete, Sam (2015). Het Corpus VGT. Een digitaal open access corpus van video's and annotaties van Vlaamse Gebarentaal, ontwikkeld aan de Universiteit Gent ism KU Leuven. www.corpusvgt.be

Common tasks used in this corpus

Task Describe process
# recordings – open access 3
# recordings – restricted access 0
Data available https://www.corpusvgt.be/nl/corpussearch?field_geslacht_v1_value=All&field_geslacht_v1_value_1=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value_1=All&field_regio_v1_value=All&field_regio_v1_value_1=All&field_thema_tid=19 (Beschrijven van procedures)
Task Diachronic changes
# recordings – open access 2
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available https://www.corpusvgt.be/nl/corpussearch?field_geslacht_v1_value=All&field_geslacht_v1_value_1=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value_1=All&field_regio_v1_value=All&field_regio_v1_value_1=All&field_thema_tid=28 (Oude vs. nieuwe gebaren)
Task Free conversation
# recordings – open access 2
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available https://www.corpusvgt.be/nl/corpussearch?field_geslacht_v1_value=All&field_geslacht_v1_value_1=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value_1=All&field_regio_v1_value=All&field_regio_v1_value_1=All&field_thema_tid=18 (Vrije conversatie)
Task Frog Story
# recordings – open access 37
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available https://www.corpusvgt.be/nl/corpussearch?field_geslacht_v1_value=All&field_geslacht_v1_value_1=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value_1=All&field_regio_v1_value=All&field_regio_v1_value_1=All&field_thema_tid=10 (Kikker, waar ben je?)
Task Retelling of fables
# recordings – open access 35 (tortoise and hare)
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available https://www.corpusvgt.be/nl/corpussearch?field_geslacht_v1_value=All&field_geslacht_v1_value_1=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value_1=All&field_regio_v1_value=All&field_regio_v1_value_1=All&field_thema_tid=8 (Schildpad & haas)
Task Route description
# recordings – open access 5
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available https://www.corpusvgt.be/nl/corpussearch?field_geslacht_v1_value=All&field_geslacht_v1_value_1=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value_1=All&field_regio_v1_value=All&field_regio_v1_value_1=All&field_thema_tid=20 (Wegbeschrijving)
Task Sign Name
# recordings – open access 36
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available https://www.corpusvgt.be/nl/corpussearch?field_geslacht_v1_value=All&field_geslacht_v1_value_1=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value_1=All&field_regio_v1_value=All&field_regio_v1_value_1=All&field_thema_tid=12 (Naamgebaar)
Task Subject areas
# recordings – open access 3 (education)
# recordings – restricted access not available (home, family, hobby)
Data available https://www.corpusvgt.be/nl/corpussearch?field_geslacht_v1_value=All&field_geslacht_v1_value_1=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value_1=All&field_regio_v1_value=All&field_regio_v1_value_1=All&field_thema_tid=11 (Schooltijd)
Task Volterra picture task
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available none
Task Warning and prohibition signs
# recordings – open access 36
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available none

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This entry was last modified on 6 January 2023.