Fire Alarm Story
The Fire Alarm
(Matthes et al., 2010) is a short clip of a Deaf person retelling what happened during their last holiday trip to Italy.
After the travel group arrived late at the hotel, the person had a drink at the bar then went to bed and slept all night. The next morning the others tell them that they tried to wake him because the fire alarm went off during the night.
The clip is shown to one of the informants, who then is asked to retell it to the other informant.
Aim of the task is to collect a high amount of sign language characteristic features, e.g. constructed action, nonmanuals, etc.
| Stimulus | Signed Story |
|---|---|
| Target | Sign language characteristic features |
| Degree of Interaction | Low (monologue) |
| Duration | 2–3 min |
| Source | See Matthes et al. (2010) |
Task uses in corpora
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| Corpus | DGS Corpus |
|---|---|
| Corpus Language | German Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 1 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 67 |
| Data available |
https://meine-dgs.de/formats/format7_en.html 
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| Corpus | PJM Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Polish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 64 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available |
https://www.korpuspjm.uw.edu.pl/en/videos?q=[[1,2,3,4],{}]
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References
Primary references
- Silke Matthes, Thomas Hanke, Jakob Storz, Eleni Efthimiou, Athanasia-Lida Dimou, Panagiotis Karioris, Annelies Braffort, Annick Choisier, Julia Pelhate, Eva Safar (2010). "Elicitation tasks and materials designed for Dicta-Sign's multi-lingual corpus". In: Proceedings of the LREC2010 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies (Valletta, Malta). Ed. by Philippe Dreuw, Eleni Efthimiou, Thomas Hanke, Trevor Johnston, Gregorio Martínez Ruiz, Adam Schembri. Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 158-163.
This entry was last modified on 24 March 2025.