DGS-BIGEKO: A Dataset for Hypothetical Emergency Scenarios in German Sign Language

Luna-Jimenez, Cristina | Eing, Lennart | Withanage Don, Daksitha | González, Marco | Nunnari, Fabrizio | Perniss, Pamela | Gebhard, Patrick | André, Elisabeth

Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion
Venue:: Palma, Mallorca, Spain
Date:: 16 May 2026
Pages:: 306–314
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Licence:: CC BY-NC 4.0
sign-lang ID:: 26011
ISBN:: 978-2-493814-82-1

Abstract

In this article, we describe DGS-BIGEKO, a sign language dataset containing a conversation in a crisis scenario signed by a professional interpreter in German Sign Language (DGS). The dataset comprises 14 sentences with common questions and answers from protocols occurring in emergency call scenarios translated into DGS. Additionally, the dataset contains signs for an additional 108 concepts that are relevant to emergency call scenarios. The dataset is intended to support research in sign language linguistics and sign language machine translation by providing resources in a very specific domain, where no previous resources are available in DGS. The dataset is freely available for research purposes at the following address: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18458557

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Cristina Luna-Jimenez, Lennart Eing, Daksitha Withanage Don, Marco González, Fabrizio Nunnari, Pamela Perniss, Patrick Gebhard, Elisabeth André. 2026. DGS-BIGEKO: A Dataset for Hypothetical Emergency Scenarios in German Sign Language. In Proceedings of the LREC2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion, pages 306–314, Palma, Mallorca, Spain. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{lunajimenez:26011:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Luna-Jimenez, Cristina and Eing, Lennart and Withanage Don, Daksitha and Gonz{\'a}lez, Marco and Nunnari, Fabrizio and Perniss, Pamela and Gebhard, Patrick and Andr{\'e}, Elisabeth},
  title     = {{DGS-BIGEKO}: A Dataset for Hypothetical Emergency Scenarios in {German} {Sign} {Language}},
  pages     = {306--314},
  editor    = {Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Mesch, Johanna and Schulder, Marc},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2026} 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion},
  maintitle = {15th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2026)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Palma, Mallorca, Spain},
  day       = {16},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2026},
  isbn      = {978-2-493814-82-1},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/26011.html}
}