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Italian Sign Language Corpus

The Italian Sign Language Corpus is a collection of Italian Sign Language data from 180 signers of Italy. The core part of the project involved three universities: University of Milan-Bicocca, University Ca’Foscari and Sapienza University.

The data collection followed the main lines of the tasks used in the American Sign Language Corpus (Lucas et al., 2002) and the Auslan Corpus (Johnston and Schembri, 2006).

Signers were recorded in pairs or groups of three, sitting opposite each other with one camera filming each signer. Each recording session was approximately one hour.

Language Italian Sign Language
Size 100 hours recorded (estimate), 16500 tokens annotated
Participants 180 participants
Native and later-exposed signers
3 age groups: 18–30, 31–54, 55 years and older
90 female, 90 male
From 10 cities
Metadata Format CMD
Translation not available
Annotation Annotation based on research projects (different bundles of annotation)
The first 100 signs of each signer have been anotated (16500 tokens in total)
See Santoro and Geraci (2015) for more information
Data Format ELAN
Licence CC BY-NC-SA (version unspecified)
Access Restricted access for researchers requires individual license agreement
Webpage Dataset: https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-57EA1164-AC96-4541-8B1D-252673D6152A
Institution University of Milan-Bicocca, University Ca’Foscari, Sapienza University

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Common tasks used in this corpus

Task Diachronic changes
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available none
Task Free conversation
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# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available none

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This entry was last modified on 6 January 2023.