Korpusseminarium 2013

Papers from Nordic seminar ”How can we use sign language corpora?”
12–13 December 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark

(seminariespråket var engelska)

Program for seminar about sign language corpora

What is a corpus and why are corpora important tools?
Kristina Nilsson Björkenstam, Stockholm University, Sweden
slides (pdf), outline (pdf)

What is signed and how? (corpora in sign language research and language education)
Johanna Mesch, Stockholm University, Sweden
slides (pdf)

Signs cannot be isolated from its context. (corpora for language advising)
Tommy Lyxell, Language Council in Sweden
slides (pdf), outline (pdf)

Can you say that? (corpora in lexicography)
Thomas Troelsgård, The Danish Sign Language Dictionary, Professionshøjskolen UCC, Denmark
slides (pdf), outline (pdf)

Exploiting the Corpus NGT for sign language interpreters and interpreter training.
Onno Crasborn, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
slides (pdf)

Searching information from a corpus and a demo on corpus tools iLex and Trova.
Sanna Ala-Sippola and Leena Savolainen, The Finnish Association of the Deaf, and Satu Worseck, University of Applied Sciences
slides (pdf)
(The demo on iLex was cancelled due to technical problems.)

A summary of the discussions at the seminar (pdf)

Related material

• A list of 8 and 16 mm films, that have been shooted in a Nordic or international event and that the Museum of the Deaf in Finland has in its possession (pdf)
• A handout on the project ProGram (pdf)
• A handout on the the Corpus and SignWiki project (pdf)
• Sign Linguistics Corpora Network (website)