The Sign Language Dataset Compendium


Data Collection Task

Sign Name

For this task the participants are asked to show their sign name and explain where it comes from. Sign names are an inherent part of Deaf culture and therefore interesting to collect. This task works as well as a warm up for the participants.

Stimulus Signed instruction
Target Documentation of Deaf culture, warm up
Degree of Interaction Low (monologue)
Duration 2–3 min

Task uses in corpora

Corpus Auslan Corpus
Corpus Language Auslan
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 191
Data available https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_a93b67cc-7339-4f08-8f09-8648791d0c3d/?pg=1&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.topic/Name signs
Corpus Corpus LSFB
Corpus Language French Belgian Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 50
Data available none
Corpus Corpus Vlaamse Gebarentaal
Corpus Language Flemish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 36
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available https://www.corpusvgt.be/nl/corpussearch?field_geslacht_v1_value=All&field_geslacht_v1_value_1=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value_1=All&field_regio_v1_value=All&field_regio_v1_value_1=All&field_thema_tid=12 (Naamgebaar)
Corpus DGS Corpus
Corpus Language German Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 168
Data available none
Corpus PJM Corpus
Corpus Language Polish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available none
Corpus Swedish Sign Language corpus
Corpus Language Swedish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available none

This entry was last modified on 29 July 2021.