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Swedish Sign Language Corpus

SND-ID: ext0383-1.

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Johanna Mesch - Stockholm University

Research principal

Stockholm University - Department of Linguistics rorId

Description

The corpus project lasted for three years, 2009-2011. Between June 2009 and March 2011, recordings were made with 42 informants aged 20 to 82 years old from different regions in the country. The recordings contain a variety of free conversations and stories, plus retellings of "Var är du, grodan?" and "Snögubben", some slide shows and comedies.

(The resource contains personal data in the form of filmed individuals. All participants have consented the films being made available to the public domain).

24 hours of video with 42 speakers. Around 70 of a total of 300 files have been edited and glossed and in some cases translated into Swedish. Dialogue and monologue (tales).

Data contains personal data

No

Language

Method and outcome

Time period(s) investigated

2009-01-01 – 2011-01-01

Number of individuals/objects

42

Data format / data structure

Data collection
Geographic coverage
Administrative information

Responsible department/unit

Department of Linguistics

Topic and keywords

Research area

Humanities and the arts (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Languages and literature (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Media, communication and language (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Keywords

Sign language, Corpus linguistics

Publications

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Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages, pages 177–180.
Handle: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.signlang-1.29.pdf

Stockholm: Institutionen för lingvistik, Stockholms universitet , 2015. , p. 25
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-123713

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