ZEI Corpus
The ZEI Corpus is a collection of ZEIIranian Sign Language signers collected within the project Western ZEI: Iranian Sign Language in Kermanshah by Yassaman Choubsaz in 2019/20.
Based on the ZEI Corpus the Global Signbank - ZEI was built, which is linked to the ELAN annotation files.
A deaf moderator lead through the sessions. The tasks contained showing the alphabet, fingerspelling, elicitation of signs, retelling of a story and conversations. Recordings took place in the Deaf Center of Kermanshah.
| Language | Iranian Sign Language |
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| Size | 25.7 hours of recording |
| Participants |
38 native signers
Three age groups (young, middle, old) From Kermanshah |
| Metadata Format | ELAR HTML |
| Translation | English and Persian, 1 hour |
| Annotation | 1 hour annotated, glossed in English and Persian |
| Data Format | ELAN |
| Licence | information not available |
| Access | Restricted access requires registration |
| Webpages |
Resource: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/fd9bf6fb-8ba9-4cd9-b598-8662ee66d7d1 
Dataset: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0014-09EB-A
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| Institution | Razi University of Kermanshah, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme |
| Publications | Choubsaz et al. (2022) |
Cite as
Choubsaz, Yassaman. 2020. Western ZEI: Iranian Sign Language in Kermanshah. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0014-09EB-A. Accessed on [insert date here].
Common tasks used in this corpus
Hide/Show tasks
| Task | Free conversation |
|---|---|
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 18 |
| Data available |
https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_b66f9eac-c64a-4cb1-b750-050dcde5701c/?&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.genre/Interactive discourse
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| Task | Lexical elicitation |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 108 |
| Data available |
https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_b66f9eac-c64a-4cb1-b750-050dcde5701c/?hh_cmis_filter=imdi.genre/Elicitation
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| Task | Pear Story |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 18 |
| Data available |
https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_b66f9eac-c64a-4cb1-b750-050dcde5701c/?&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.topic/The pear story
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References
Primary references
- Yassaman Choubsaz, Onno Crasborn, Sara Siyavoshi, Farzaneh Soleimanbeigi (2022). "Documenting the Use of Iranian Sign Language". In: Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources (Marseille, France). Ed. by Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch, Marc Schulder. Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 37-41. ISBN: 979-10-95546-86-3. ACL: 2022.signlang-1.6.
This entry was last modified on 7 March 2025.