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, Semi-Planned, Elicited
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

Available 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

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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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