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 |
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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 |
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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],{}] |
Articles mentioned above
- 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.
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