The Corpus of Israeli Sign Language

Rose Stamp, Ora Ohanin, Sara Lanesman

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Abstract

The Corpus of Israeli Sign Language is a four-year project (2020-2024) which aims to create a digital open-access corpus of spontaneous and elicited data from a representative sample of the Israeli deaf community. In this paper, the methodology for building the Corpus of Israeli Sign Language is described. Israeli Sign Language (ISL) is the main sign language used across Israel by around 10,000 people. As part of the corpus, data will be collected from 120 deaf ISL signers across four sites in Israel: Tel Aviv and the Centre, Haifa and the North, Be'er Sheva and the South and Jerusalem and the surrounding area. Participants will engage in a variety of tasks, eliciting a range of signing styles from free conversation to lexical elicitation. The dataset will consist of recordings of over 360 hours of video data which will be used to conduct sociolinguistic investigations of language contact, variation, and change in the near term, and other linguistic analyses in the future.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages
Subtitle of host publicationMultilingual Sign Language Resources, sign-lang 2022 - held in conjunction with the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2022 - Proceedings
EditorsEleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch, Marc Schulder
Pages192-197
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9791095546863
StatePublished - 2022
Event10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, sign-lang 2022 - Marseille, France
Duration: 20 Jun 202225 Jun 2022

Publication series

Name10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, sign-lang 2022 - held in conjunction with the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2022 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, sign-lang 2022
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityMarseille
Period20/06/2225/06/22

Keywords

  • Israeli Sign Language
  • corpus
  • corpus project
  • language change
  • language contact
  • lexical database

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Education
  • Library and Information Sciences
  • Linguistics and Language

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