Russian Sign Language Corpus
The Russian Sign Language Corpus is a collection of signers of RSLRussian 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 | information not available |
| Translation | Russian, size unknown |
| Annotation | Gloss annotation for left and right hand |
| Data Format | ELAN |
| Licence | RSL Corpus Licence |
| Access | Restricted access requires confirmed registration |
| Webpage |
http://rsl.nstu.ru/ 
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| 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).
References
Primary references
- Svetlana Burkova, Elizaveta Filimonova, Vadim Kimmelman, Viktoriia Kopylova, Nina Semushina (2019). "Lexical Expressions of Time in Russian Sign Language". In: Sign Language Studies 19(2). Gallaudet University Press, pp. 175-203. ISSN: 0302-1475. DOI: 10.1353/sls.2018.0031.
This entry was last modified on 24 March 2025.