Compiling the Slovene Sign Language Corpus

Vintar, Špela | Jerko, Boštjan | Kulovec, Marjetka

Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC2012 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon
Venue:: Istanbul, Turkey
Date:: 27 May 2012
Pages:: 159–162
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC
sign-lang ID:: 12007

Content Categories

Languages:: Slovene Sign Language
Corpora:: SIGNOR Corpus

Abstract

We report on the project of compiling the first corpus of the Slovene Sign Language. The paper describes the procedures of data collection, the decisions regarding informant selection and plans for transcription and annotation. We outline the particularities of the Slovene situation, especially the high variability of the language, issues concerning language competence and the attitutes of the deaf community towards such data collection. At the time of writing, the data collection stage is nearly finished with over 70 recorded persons, and trancriptions with iLex are underway. The aim of the project is to use the corpus for explorations into the grammatical properties of SSL.

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Špela Vintar, Boštjan Jerko, Marjetka Kulovec. 2012. Compiling the Slovene Sign Language Corpus. In Proceedings of the LREC2012 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon, pages 159–162, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{vintar:12007:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Vintar, {\v S}pela and Jerko, Bo{\v s}tjan and Kulovec, Marjetka},
  title     = {Compiling the {Slovene} {Sign} {Language} Corpus},
  pages     = {159--162},
  editor    = {Crasborn, Onno and Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2012} 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon},
  maintitle = {8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2012)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Istanbul, Turkey},
  day       = {27},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2012},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/12007.pdf}
}