Exploring Aspects of Spontaneous Signing in the DGS Corpus
Kopf, Maria 
| Konrad, Reiner | Langer, Gabriele | Schulder, Marc | König, Lutz
- 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:
- 262–274
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Licence:
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- sign-lang ID:
- 26030
- ISBN:
- 978-2-493814-82-1
Abstract
Most use of sign language is spontaneous, unplanned, embedded in a one-to-one situation and transient. General sign language corpora aim at such naturalistic data. Thus it can be expected that they include phenomena of spontaneous language similar to the ones described for spontaneous speech in vocal languages: that is, (dis)fluencies such as pauses, hesitations, errors, false starts and repairs as well as discourse markers. In this paper we explore which of the known phenomena of spontaneous language from previous research on vocal and sign languages could be identified in the DGS Corpus using the annotations at hand. We describe our search strategies, consider additional annotation tiers for spontaneous language, and provide examples for the phenomena identified.Document Download
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Maria Kopf, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer, Marc Schulder, Lutz König. 2026. Exploring Aspects of Spontaneous Signing in the DGS Corpus. In Proceedings of the LREC2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion, pages 262–274, Palma, Mallorca, Spain. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).BibTeX Export
@inproceedings{kopf:26030:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Kopf, Maria and Konrad, Reiner and Langer, Gabriele and Schulder, Marc and K{\"o}nig, Lutz},
title = {Exploring Aspects of Spontaneous Signing in the {DGS} {Corpus}},
pages = {262--274},
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/26030.html}
}