Italian Sign Language Corpus
The Italian Sign Language Corpus is a collection of LISItalian 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 | information 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 |
Elicitation materials: https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-57EA1164-AC96-4541-8B1D-252673D6152A 
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| Institution | University of Milan-Bicocca, University Ca’Foscari, Sapienza University |
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Common tasks used in this corpus
Hide/Show tasks
| Task | Diachronic changes |
|---|---|
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | none |
| Task | Free conversation |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | none |
References
Primary references
- Mirko Santoro, Carlo Geraci (2015). "Italian Sign Language (LIS) Corpus".
References to other works
- Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, Clayton Valli (2002). "Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language". 237 pp. ISBN: 978-1-56368-113-4.
- Trevor Johnston, Adam Schembri (2006). "Issues in the creation of a digital archive of a signed language". In: Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork: "From creation to archive and back" (Sydney, Australia). Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press, pp. 7-16. ISBN: 978-1-920898-50-2.
This entry was last modified on 24 March 2025.