We recorded data on deafblind people in Japan. In this filming project, we found that Japanese deafblind people use different communication methods, tactile Japanese sign language and finger braille, depending on their hearing ability and eyesight. Tactile sign language is normally used by those who were born deaf or lost their hearing at an early age and then lost their sight after acquiring a sign language. These people are known as deaf-based deafblind (D-deafblind). Finger braille is popular in Japan, but largely unknown elsewhere. It is normally used by those who were born blind or lost their sight at an early age and subsequently lost their hearing after learning how to produce speech using their throat and mouth. These people are known as blind-based deafblind (B-deafblind hereafter). This paper introduces our filming project; the ways of data collection, translation and annotation. In addition, we show our preliminary observations using our data sets to clarify the important fact that we should collect their interactions at this moment. The data show how their interactions have already become established and sophisticated in their communities. We discuss how our filming project will contribute to the deafblind community in Japan.
@InProceedings{BONO18.18027, author = {Mayumi Bono ,Rui Sakaida ,Ryosaku Makino ,Tomohiro Okada ,Kouhei Kikuchi ,Mio Cibulka ,Louisa Willoughby ,Shimako Iwasaki and Satoshi Fukushima}, title = {Tactile Japanese Sign Language and Finger Braille: An Example of Data Collection for Minority Languages in Japan}, 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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