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Russian Sign Language Corpus

The Russian Sign Language Corpus is a collection of signers of Russian Sign Language. Represented are two different local variations of RSL, one from the Siberian and one from the Moscow region.

The corpus was created between 2012 and 2014 at the Novosibirsk State Technical University under the lead of Svetlana Burkova. It comprises spontaneous speech in the form of monologues and dialogues and elicited data. For elicitation cartoons, picture stories, and a linguistic questionnaire were used.

Recordings were done in a studio, in classrooms and at signers homes. A deaf addressee was present.

Language Russian Sign Language
Size 240 videotexts
5 hours and 28 minutes recorded
65000 annotations, 25000 signs (estimate)
Participants 45 signers
Deaf, hard-of-hearing, deaf-blind and CODA
18 to 63 years old
Living in Novosibirsk and Moscow, earlier long-term residents from 10 regions: Tomsk, Kemerovo, Sverdlovsk regions, Altai region, the Republic of Altai, Krasnoyarsk region, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Republic of Buryatia, the Republic of Khakassia and the north-eastern part of Kazakhstan
Metadata Format not available
Translation Russian, size unknown
Annotation Gloss annotation for left and right hand
Data Format ELAN
Licence http://rsl.nstu.ru/site/access
Access Restricted access requires confirmed registration
Webpage http://rsl.nstu.ru/
Institution Novosibirsk State Technical University
Publications Burkova et al. (2019)

Cite as

Corpus: Russian Sign Language Corpus. Novosibirsk, 2012-2015. Project leader: Svetlana Burkova http://rsl.nstu.ru/ Accessed (date of last access).

Corpus specific pages: Burkova, Svetlana. Russian sign language: general information. Russian Sign Language Corpus. Novosibirsk, 2012-2015. Project leader: Svetlana Burkova http://rsl.nstu.ru/site/signlang Accessed (date of last access).

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This entry was last modified on 4 July 2023.