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ECHO Corpus

The European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO) corpus is a multilingual corpus containing video material from three SLssign languages: Sign Language of the Netherlands, British Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language. Eight signers were recorded for 1.5 hours following the same tasks in each language. For Sign Language of the Netherlands and British Sign Language sign language poetry was added to the corpus. Additionally annotated segments of the Gehörlos So! corpus of German Sign Language (Heßmann, 2001) were added to the corpus. The Echo project was a 18-month EU funded project dedicated to bring Essential Cultural Heritage online. The ECHO corpus was built from 2003–2004 by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Radboud University and University of Lund.

Filming took place in a studio with one or two signers at the same time. The signers were sitting or standing and depending on the task, recorded separately or closely next to each other. A single-coloured background was used.

Languages British Sign Language, Sign Language of the Netherlands, Swedish Sign Language, German Sign Language
Size 1.5 hours recorded
Participants 8 participants
Native signers
20–40 years old
Metadata Format IMDI, OLAC
Translation Dutch, English and Swedish, size unknown
Annotation See Nonhebel et al. (2004)
Data Format ELAN
Licence CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Access Open access to videos and transcripts via Language Archive
Webpages Project page: https://www.ru.nl/cls/our-research/research-groups/sign-language-linguistics/completed-projects/completed-projects/echo/
Dataset: https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0001-4892-C
Institution Max Planck Insitute for Psycholinguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen, University of Lund

Cite as

Barbara Cassin, Wim Emmerik, Annika Nonhebel, Els van der Kooij, Johanna Mesch, Annemieke van Kampen, Onno Crasborn, Rachel Sutton-Spence, Rachel Sutton-Spence / Dafydd Waters, Anja Hiddinga, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Dafydd Waters, and Leendert Pot. (2003 - 2005). Collection "ECHO". The Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0001-4892-C. (Accessed [insert date])

Common tasks used in this corpus

Task Lexical elicitation
Corpus Language British Sign Language
# recordings – open access 1
# recordings – restricted access 0
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0001-49AF-B
Task Lexical elicitation
Corpus Language Sign Language of the Netherlands
# recordings – open access 4
# recordings – restricted access 0
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0001-4A68-0
Task Lexical elicitation
Corpus Language Swedish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 1
# recordings – restricted access 0
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0001-4AE2-C
Task Retelling of fables
Corpus Language British Sign Language
# recordings – open access 10
# recordings – restricted access 0
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0001-4950-1
Task Retelling of fables
Corpus Language Sign Language of the Netherlands
# recordings – open access 20
# recordings – restricted access 0
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0001-49C8-8
Task Retelling of fables
Corpus Language Swedish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 10
# recordings – restricted access 0
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0001-4AD9-1

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This entry was last modified on 6 January 2023.