Signs of Ireland
The Signs of Ireland Corpus is a collection of ISLIrish Sign Language video data from 40 signers of Ireland. The project was based at the Trinity College Dublin, took place in 2004 and was led by Lorraine Leesson.
Data collection was done by a deaf researcher, who is a established member of the Irish Deaf community. SLsign language teachers were not recorded for the Corpus.
| Language | Irish Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Size | 10 hours recorded (estimate) |
| Participants |
40 participants
Deaf, native and early signers 4 age groups: 18–30, 30–45, 45—60, 65 years and older 24 female, 16 male From 5 regions: Galway, Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Cork |
| Metadata Format | information not available |
| Translation | information not available |
| Annotation |
all self selected stories and a quarter of the Frog stories
Following Nonhebel et al. (2004) See Matthews and Sheridan (2015) for more information |
| Data Format | ELAN |
| Licence | information not available |
| Access | No public access |
| Webpage | information not available |
| Institution | Trinity College Dublin |
Cite as
information not available
Common tasks used in this corpus
Hide/Show tasks
| Task | Frog Story |
|---|---|
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | none |
| Task | Pear Story |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | none |
| Task | Retelling of fables |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | none |
| Task | Volterra picture task |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | none |
References
Primary references
- Patrick Matthews, Sarah Sheridan (2015). "Digging into Signs Workshop".
References to other works
- Annika Nonhebel, Onno A. Crasborn, Els van der Kooij (2004). "Sign language transcription conventions for the ECHO Project". Annotation Convention. 11 pp.
This entry was last modified on 4 March 2025.