Elicitation methods in the DGS (German Sign Language) Corpus Project
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During the first three years of the DGS Corpus project the main focus is on data collection. Before setting up the corpus design we conducted a survey to get an overview on the existing elicitation materials. The design of our data collection contains a variety of different stimuli and tasks with the special attention to free conversation, dialogues and monologues. To this effect, a range of possible discourse modes were considered: narration and renarration, discussion, report and description. The stimuli include pictures,
picture stories, non-verbal film clips (e.g. cartoons and realistic film clips) and signed movies. In order to minimize the influence of the surrounding spoken/written language, written German is not used if possible. Introduction and explanation of each task is provided in DGS in form of movie clips. All tasks were tested in a pilot phase to examine their feasibility and reliability. Some of the tasks tested needed to go through several rounds of modifications while others did not work at all and thus were excluded from the data collection. In this paper, we not only present the tasks for elicitation and stimuli, but also describe their development process. We also discuss reasons why some stimuli were adopted from other projects while others had to be developed specifically for the purpose of our project.
En: Dreuw, P. et al (coord.), 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies. Proceedings (2010), pp. 178-185.