Sign Linguistics Corpora Network
The Sign Linguistics Corpora Network (SLCN) was a three-year project funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and led by Onno Crasborn at Radboud University Nijmegen. Its last activity took place in 2011, but the Sign Linguistics Corpora wiki will be maintained and updated as the one place for collecting data on sign language corpora and related methodologies world-wide. Also, the presentations from the four workshops can be found on this web site.
The aim of the network was to collect and strengthen existing knowledge on the creation and exploitation of sign language corpora, and draw a map of what is needed for high-quality research in the decades to come. The mission statement makes these aims more explicit and puts them into context.
A series of four small-scale international workshops has been organised in 2009 and 2010. The outcome of the workshops will be published on this web site and on the wiki. The final workshop, in December 2010 in Berlin, also included a public event for the deaf organisations in Europe.
The lasting outcome of the project is the Sign Language Corpora Wiki which aims to collect information on all different aspects of sign corpora. Everyone is invited to contribute to this wiki site!
The first workshop took place in London, 26-27 July 2009. The workshop was an introduction to the SLCN network and focused on different aspects of data collection for sign language corpora.
The second workshop, on metadata, took place in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on Friday November 13, 2009
The third workshop, on annotation, was hosted by the University of Stockholm from 14-16 June of 2010.
The fourth and final workshop, on exploitation and publication of signed corpora took place in Berlin, Fri 3 + Sat 4 December, 2010.
Presentations from all four workshops can be downloaded through the links above.
See the links page for information on published corpora and ongoing corpus construction projects.