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.
@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}
}