OLAC Record
oai:compendium.lr.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de:dictasign

Metadata
Title:Dicta-Sign Corpus
Contributor (sponsor):Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Universität Hamburg, University of East Anglia, University of Surrey, Laboratoire d'informatique pour la mécanique et les sciences de l'ingénieur (LIMSI), Université Paul Sabatier, National Technical University of Athens, WebSourd
Description:The Dicta-Sign Corpus is a multilingual corpus of the four SLssign languages British Sign Language, German Sign Language, Greek Sign Language and French Sign Language covering the topic of European travel. The corpus collects at least 14 informants per language. The recording sessions took approximately two hours and the same elicitation materials were used across languages. Dicta-Sign was a three-years project from the European's seventh framework programme. The consortium conducting the project consisted of eight partners: Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Universität Hamburg, University of East Anglia, University of Surrey, Laboratoire d'informatique pour la mécanique et les sciences de l'ingénieur (Limsi), Université Paul Sabatier, National Technical University of Athens, WebSourd. In total 1000 concepts with a SLsign language equivalent in each language were collected (see Dicta-Sign Lexicon) as well as training data for isolated signs and elicitation material for corpus collections. Recordings were made with seven cameras recording the signers from different perspectives: front, side and top view as well as additional stereo cameras.
https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lr/compendium/corpus/dictasign.html
Format:25 hours recorded, 1000 types per language elicited
Identifier (URI):https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/dicta-sign/portal/
Subject:Multilingual sign language corpus
British Sign Language language
German Sign Language language
Greek Sign Language language
French Sign Language language
Subject (ISO639):bfi
gsg
gss
fsl
Subject (OLAC):text_and_corpus_linguistics
Type (DCMI):Collection
MovingImage
Type (OLAC):primary_text

OLAC Info

Archive:  The Sign Language Dataset Compendium
Description:  http://www.language-archives.org/archive/compendium.lr.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de
GetRecord:  OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
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OAI Info

OaiIdentifier:  oai:compendium.lr.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de:dictasign
DateStamp:  2023-01-27
GetRecord:  OAI-PMH request for simple DC format

Search Info

Citation: Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Universität Hamburg, University of East Anglia, University of Surrey, Laboratoire d'informatique pour la mécanique et les sciences de l'ingénieur (LIMSI), Université Paul Sabatier, National Technical University of Athens, WebSourd (sponsor). n.d. The Sign Language Dataset Compendium.
Terms: area_Europe country_DE country_FR country_GB country_GR dcmi_Collection dcmi_MovingImage iso639_bfi iso639_fsl iso639_gsg iso639_gss olac_dialogue olac_primary_text olac_text_and_corpus_linguistics

Inferred Metadata

Country: GermanyFranceUnited KingdomGreece
Area: Europe


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