Subject areas
Different subject areas are presented to the signers with pictures, written subject titles or in signed instructions. Commonly used subject areas are family, home, work, hobbies, childhood, education and travel. The signers are asked to describe the topics or their personal family, work, home, etc. This task aims at collecting a solid basis of basic vocabulary additionally the Deaf culture is documented. Some projects collect discussions on this task afterwards and provide them bundled together across different tasks.
| Stimulus | Written phrases, pictures and/or signed instruction |
|---|---|
| Target | Basic vocabulary, documentation of Deaf culture |
| Degree of Interaction | Low – middle |
| Duration | 5–15 min |
| Source | See for example Nishio et al. (2010) |
Task uses in corpora
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| Corpus | CORLSE |
|---|---|
| Corpus Language | Spanish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 104 (childhood), 106 (education), 102 (work) |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available |
https://corpuslse.es/corpus#b_start=0&c9=infan_codigo (Childhood – Anéctodas de la infancia)
https://corpuslse.es/corpus#b_start=0&c9=edu_codigo (Education – Experiencia educativa) https://corpuslse.es/corpus#b_start=0&c9=tya_codigo (Work – Trabajo y aficiones) |
| Corpus | Corpus LSFB |
| Corpus Language | French Belgian Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 11 (family), 18 (education) |
| Data available | none |
| Corpus | Corpus of Finnish Sign Language |
| Corpus Languages | Finnish Sign Language , Finland-Swedish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 (work, hobby) |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | none |
| Corpus | Corpus Vlaamse Gebarentaal |
| Corpus Language | Flemish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 3 (education) |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available (home, family, hobby) |
| 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=11  (Schooltijd)
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| Corpus | DGS Corpus |
| Corpus Language | German Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 26 (25 subject areas) |
| # recordings – restricted access | 349 |
| Data available |
https://meine-dgs.de/formats/format13_en.html
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| Corpus | Dicta-Sign Corpus |
| Corpus Language | British Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 8 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 8 |
| Data available |
https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/dicta-sign/portal/task.html
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| Corpus | Dicta-Sign Corpus |
| Corpus Language | German Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 7 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 7 |
| Data available |
https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/dicta-sign/portal/task.html
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| Corpus | Dicta-Sign Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Greek Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 8 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 8 |
| Data available |
https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/dicta-sign/portal/task.html
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| Corpus | Dicta-Sign Corpus |
| Corpus Language | French Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 8 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 8 |
| Data available |
https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/dicta-sign/portal/task.html
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| Corpus | Dicta-Sign-GSL-v2 |
| Corpus Language | Greek Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 8 |
| Data available | none |
| Corpus | Dicta-Sign-LSF-v2 |
| Corpus Language | French Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 8 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 8 |
| Data available |
https://hdl.handle.net/11403/dicta-sign-lsf-v2/v1
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| Corpus | PJM Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Polish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | none |
| Corpus | VIDI Sign Space Corpus |
| 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)
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| Corpus | VIDI Sign Space Corpus |
| 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)
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| Corpus | Visibase Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Sign Language of the Netherlands |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available (work) |
| Data available | none |
References
Primary references
- Rie Nishio, Sung-Eun Hong, Susanne König, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer, Thomas Hanke, Christian Rathmann (2010). "Elicitation methods in the DGS (German Sign Language) Corpus Project". 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. 178-185.
This entry was last modified on 29 July 2021.