Swedish Sign Language Corpus

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Johanna Mesch - Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Lars Wallin - Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Anna-Lena Nilsson - Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Brita Bergman - Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Description

The Swedish Sign Language Corpus includes recordings and documentation of sign language texts, produced by Swedish Sign Language signers.

Subject area

MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Humanities and the Arts, Languages and Literature (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

Sign Language

Principal organisation

Stockholm University

Accessibility status

Access to data through an external actor
Data are accessible by order

Homepage

Link to exhttps://www.ling.su.se/teckenspr%C3%A5ksresurser/teckenspr%C3%A5kskorpusar/svensk-teckenspr%C3%A5kskorpus/videofilerextern resursternal resource

https://teckensprakskorpus.su.se/#/

Responsible department/unit

Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Johanna Mesch - Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Lars Wallin - Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Anna-Lena Nilsson - Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Brita Bergman - Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Identifiers

SND-ID: EXT 0409

Description

The Swedish Sign Language Corpus includes recordings and documentation of sign language texts, produced by Swedish Sign Language signers.

Time period(s) investigated

2009-01-01 — ongoing

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Data contains personal data

Yes

Funding

Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation — Ref. In2008-0276-1-IK

Subject area

MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Humanities and the Arts, Languages and Literature (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

Sign Language

Language resources

Resource type

Corpus

Foreseen use

NLP application

Video corpus

Linguality
Bilingual
Language
- Swedish Sign Language (swl)
Modality
Sign Language
Size

Hours: 24
Annotation
- Other
  
  Manual annotation
  
  Annotated elements: Other
Naturality
Natural
Conversational type
Dialogue
Subtitles or captions
Subtitles
Description of video content
Samtal, berättelser, eliciterade berättelser
Recording environment
Studio
Recording software
Tre studiokameror av hög kvalitet och två bevakningskameror på taket

Contact for questions about the data

Johanna Mesch

Associated documentation

Forskning om teckenspråk XXIV Mesch Wallin 2015.pdf

Mesch_Wallin 2015 Gloss annotations in the Swedish Sign Language corpus.pdf

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Publications

Mesch, J. (2015). Svensk teckenspråkskorpus - dess tillkomst och uppbyggnad (Forskning om teckenspråk XXIV). Avdelningen för teckenspråk, Institutionen för lingvistik, Stockholms universitet, 1-25.
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-123713

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