Your region
The informants are asked to talk about the specialities of the region they live in. Examples named are typical culinary specialities, sites, landscapes, products, customs, etc. In the DGS Corpus signers were grouped by region to facilitate the exchange on this topic. The aim of the task is to collect signs for names of places, famous happening, etc. and a discourse type of text.
| Stimulus | Signed instruction |
|---|---|
| Target | Signs for names of places and famous happenings |
| Degree of Interaction | High (discourse) |
| Duration | 20 min |
| Source | See Nishio et al. (2010) |
Task uses in corpora
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| Corpus | DGS Corpus |
|---|---|
| Corpus Language | German Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 13 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 67 |
| Data available |
https://meine-dgs.de/formats/format10_en.html 
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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 |
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.