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VIDI Sign Space Corpus

The Vidi Sign Space Corpus is a corpus of German Sign Language and Turkish Sign Language data collected by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics under the lead of Asli Özyürek from March 2007 to September 2012.

The signers were recorded in pairs in a studio sitting at a table. Three Sony DV cameras were used, one per signer and one for a top view.

Languages German Sign Language, Turkish Sign Language
Size 135 hours of recording planned
Participants 30 participants (approximate)
native, early and late signers
male and female
Metadata Format IMDI, OLAC
Translation not available
Annotation Descriptive and analytic annotation
Data Format ELAN
Licence not available
Access Restricted access for researchers requires individual license agreement
Webpages Project page: https://www.nwo.nl/en/projects/276-70-009
Dataset: https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-68DB-A
Institution Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Publications https://www.nwo.nl/en/projects/276-70-009

Cite as

Aslı Özyürek, UZ, Pamela Perniss, Engin Arik, Deniz Ilkbasaran, and Daniela Happ. (2002 - 2009). Collection "VIDI Sign space project". The Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-68DB-A. (Accessed [insert date])

Common tasks used in this corpus

Task Charlie Chaplin
Corpus Language German Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 39
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0009-2BB5-1
Task Charlie Chaplin
Corpus Language Turkish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 42
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0009-4513-5
Task Free conversation
Corpus Language German Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 5
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0009-38E3-3
Task Free conversation
Corpus Language Turkish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 23
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0009-6FB4-5, https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0009-4B5B-9
Task Frog Story
Corpus Language Turkish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 7
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-42CA-0
Task Present yourself
Corpus Language German Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 20
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0009-2B4E-5
Task Present yourself
Corpus Language Turkish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 23
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0009-6FC4-0
Task Route description
Corpus Language German Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 10
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0000-C7D4-6
Task Route description
Corpus Language Turkish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 1
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-4448-0
Task Subject areas
Corpus Language German Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 17 (family, house)
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-AC09-5 (House), https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-AC0B-9 (Family)
Task Subject areas
Corpus Language Turkish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 32 (house), 3 (family), 1 (room)
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0009-6FBC-6 (House — collection 1), https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-4439-6 (House — collection 2), https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-444B-5 (Room), https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-4432-9 (Family)
Task Sylvester and Tweety
Corpus Language German Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 112
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0000-C71E-8
Task Sylvester and Tweety
Corpus Language Turkish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 109
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-430C-6
Task Volterra picture task
Corpus Language German Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 14
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-AC0C-C
Task Volterra picture task
Corpus Language Turkish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 14
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0009-4526-0
Task Zwitserlood Picture Task
Corpus Language Turkish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 42
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0009-4520-5
Task Zwitserlood Picture Task
Corpus Language German Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 42
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-C05D-B

This entry was last modified on 30 January 2023.