This paper aims to present part of the project “From Speech to Sign – learning Swedish Sign Language as a second language” which include a learner corpus that is based on data produced by hearing adult L2 signers. The paper describes the design of corpus building and the collection of data for the Corpus in Swedish Sign Language as a Second Language (SSLC-L2). Another component of ongoing work is the creation of a specialized annotation scheme for SSLC-L2, one that differs somewhat from the annotation work in Swedish Sign Language Corpus (SSLC), where the data is based on performance by L1 signers. Also, we will account for and discuss the methodology used to annotate L2 structures.
@InProceedings{MESCH18.18019, author = {Johanna Mesch and Krister Schönström}, title = {From design and collection to annotation of a learner corpus of sign language}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, date = {7-12}, location = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Mayumi Bono and Eleni Efthimiou and
Stavroula-Evita Fotinea and Thomas Hanke and
Julie Hochgesang and Jette Kristoffersen and
Johanna Mesch and Yutaka Osugi}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris, France}, isbn = {979-10-95546-01-6}, language = {english} }
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