The Sign Language Dataset Compendium


Data Collection Task

Warning and prohibition signs

Unusual warning and prohibition signs from all around the world are shown to the participants. They are invited to discuss what the signs could possibly mean. This task is a good warm up for the participants. Target of this task is to elicit negated sentences in a coherent context. 16 warning and prohibition signs are used in the DGS Corpus.

Stimulus Signed instruction and pictures
Target Warm up, negation in context
Degree of Interaction High (discussion with disagreement)
Duration 15 min
Source See Nishio et al. (2010)

Task uses in corpora

Corpus Corpus Vlaamse Gebarentaal
Corpus Language Flemish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 36
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available none
Corpus DGS Corpus
Corpus Language German Sign Language
# recordings – open access 16
# recordings – restricted access 152
Data available https://meine-dgs.de/formats/format14_en.html
Corpus PJM Corpus
Corpus Language Polish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 71
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available https://www.korpuspjm.uw.edu.pl/en/videos?q=[[13,14,17,18],{}]

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