Swedish Sign Language Corpus

SND-ID: EXT 0409

Description Data and documentation

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.

The corpus material is freely available via the web-based corpus tool STS corpus, for use in teaching, research, and sign language lexicography. By logging in, additional material and files are available.

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Stockholm University

Responsible department/unit

Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Funding

Funding agency: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation
Funding agency's reference number: In2008-0276-1-IK

Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

Method and time period

Sampling procedure

During 2009-2011, recordings of 42 informants aged between 20 and 82 from different regions in Sweden were made. The recordings consist of a number of free conversations and storytelling, as well as retellings of “Frog, where are you?” and “The Snow Man”, some comic strips and comedies.

Time period(s) investigated

2009-01-01–ongoing

Language resources

Resource type

Corpus

Foreseen use

NLP application

Video corpus

Linguality
Bilingual
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

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Topic and keywords

Research 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

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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Access to data via

Homepage

Information about The Swedish Sign Language Corpus at Stockholm Universty

The Swedish Sign Language Corpus - STS corpus

Contact

Johanna Mesch

Information about using data

Dataset

Swedish Sign Language Corpus, version 1

Associated documentation

Forskning om teckenspråk XXIV Mesch Wallin 2015.pdf

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