The Sign Language Dataset Compendium


Data Collection Task

Deaf life experiences

Many SL corpora contain a task to document typical experiences of Deaf people, such as Deaf schools and education, Deaf retirement homes, associations of the Deaf, Deaf sports clubs, and so on. Participants are asked to share their experiences from Deaf schools, residential schools, Deaf retirement homes, Deaf sports clubs, associations of the Deaf, etc. The collected data is expected to be spontaneous and lively.

Stimulus Pictures, comic strips or no material
Target Documentation of Deaf culture
Degree of Interaction Low (monologue)
Duration 5–15 min
Source Possibly: That Deaf Guy, available at https://thatdeafguy.com/

Task uses in corpora

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Corpus Auslan Corpus
Corpus Language Auslan
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 100
Data available https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_a93b67cc-7339-4f08-8f09-8648791d0c3d/?pg=4&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.topic/Attitudes+survey
Corpus Catalan Sign Language Corpus
Corpus Language Catalan Sign Language
# recordings – open access 28
# recordings – restricted access information not available
Data available https://corpuslsc.iec.cat/en/explanation-of-an-anecdote-related-to-deafness/
Corpus Corpus LSFB
Corpus Language French Belgian Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 76 (deafclub), 61 (childhood), 50 (hobbies)
Data available none
Corpus Corpus NGT
Corpus Language Sign Language of the Netherlands
# recordings – open access 60
# recordings – restricted access 3
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0009-06F6-0
Corpus DGS Corpus
Corpus Language German Sign Language
# recordings – open access 63
# recordings – restricted access 259
Data available https://meine-dgs.de/formats/format3_en.html
Corpus PJM Corpus
Corpus Language Polish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access information not available
Data available none
Corpus Swedish Sign Language corpus
Corpus Language Swedish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 12
# recordings – restricted access information not available
Data available https://ling33.ling.su.se/sslc/video/ (Döv ...)

This entry was last modified on 29 July 2021.