DGS-Korpus

1 April 2015
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DGS Corpus is a long-term project of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg for the documentation of and research on German Sign Language (DGS). The aim is to collect sign language texts from Deaf people and to present parts of them as a public corpus. During the project term of 15 years, a corpus-based electronic DGS – German dictionary will be developed. The corpus is meant to be representative for the everyday language of Deaf people all over Germany.

The DGS Corpus project is carried out at the Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf at Hamburg University. The project is financed by the joint research funding of the German Federal Government and Federal States in the Academies’ Programme, with funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

German Sign Language
Marc Schulder
Marc Schulder
Research Associate in Computational Linguistics

My research interests include sign languages, natural language processing, and open science.

Publications

Data Statement for the Public DGS Corpus (v3)
Versions Latest version: Version 3: Version 2: Version 1: Abstract This data statement of the Public DGS Corpus provides information relevant to judging the nature of the language content of the corpus.
Marc Schulder, Dolly Blanck, Thomas Hanke, Ilona Hofmann, Sung-Eun Hong, Olga Jeziorski, Lutz König, Susanne König, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer, Rie Nishio, Christian Rathmann
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Not just 'any' sign! Searching for negative polarity items in German Sign Language (DGS)
Abstract Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) are expressions such as “any” that cannot occur in positive assertions with simple past (“Mary bought any books”), but become acceptable under the scope of negation (“Mary didn’t buy any books”).
Cornelia Loos, Marc Schulder
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Deutsche Gebärdensprache zugänglich und nutzbar machen: Das Öffentliche DGS-Korpus und das Digitale Wörterbuch der Deutschen Gebärdensprache
This article is only available in German. Abstract Das DGS-Korpus-Projekt erstellt ein Referenzkorpus der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (DGS) und macht mit dem Öffentlichen DGS-Korpus und dem korpusbasierten Wörterbuch der DGS diese Sprache in ihrer Vielfalt öffentlich zugänglich.
Reiner Konrad, Julian Bleicken, Calvin Khan, Amy Isard, Gabriele Langer, Anke Müller, Marc Schulder
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How to be FAIR when you CARE: The DGS Corpus as a Case Study of Open Science Resources for Minority Languages
Article and video presentation on how the DGS Corpus implement ethical open data practices.
Marc Schulder, Thomas Hanke
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How to be FAIR when you CARE: The DGS Corpus as a Case Study of Open Science Resources for Minority Languages
HamNoSys in TeX
Versions Latest version: Version 1: Abstract The Hamburg Notation System, HamNoSys for short, is a system for the phonetic transcription of signed languages. The TeX package hamnosys makes the HamNoSys font available in TeX documents.
Marc Schulder, Thomas Hanke
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Collocations in Sign Language Lexicography: Towards Semantic Abstractions for Word Sense Discrimination
Abstract In general monolingual lexicography a corpus-based approach to word sense discrimination (WSD) is the current standard. Automatically generated lexical profiles such as Word Sketches provide an overview on typical uses in the form of collocate lists grouped by their part of speech categories and their syntactic dependency relations to the base item.
Gabriele Langer, Marc Schulder
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Extending the Public DGS Corpus in Size and Depth
Abstract In 2018 the DGS-Korpus project published the first full release of the Public DGS Corpus. This event marked a change of focus for the project. While before most attention had been on increasing the size of the corpus, now an increase in its depth became the priority.
Thomas Hanke, Marc Schulder, Reiner Konrad, Elena Jahn
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OpenPose in the Public DGS Corpus (v2)
Versions Latest version: Version 2: Version 1: Abstract This project note gives an overview of how pose information was created for the Public DGS Corpus with the use of OpenPose. Pose information is machine-readable data that describes where people are located in an image, providing the coordinates for various points of each body, such as joints, eyes or ears.
Marc Schulder, Thomas Hanke
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Events

Conference Presentation: Properties of Head Nods across Sign Languages: a Pose Estimation Study
What are the phonetic properties of different types of head nods in sign languages?
11 September 2024 09:30 — 10:00 Poznań, Poland
Anastasia Bauer, Anna Kuder, Marc Schulder, Job Schepens
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Keynote: Being a Computational Linguist in Sign Language Research
How can a computational linguist contribute to sign language research?
19 September 2023 09:09 — 10:00 Ingolstadt, Germany
Marc Schulder
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Conference Presentation: Phonetics of head nods in German Sign Language (DGS)
What are the phonetic properties of different types of head nods in German Sign Language?
13 September 2023 09:13 — 14:10 Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Anastasia Bauer, Anna Kuder, Marc Schulder
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Conference Presentation: Searching for negative polarity items in DGS
Using frequency-based corpus search to find possible negative polarity items in German Sign Language.
13 January 2023 14:45 — 15:15 Göttingen, Germany
Marc Schulder
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Invited Talk: It's a fair corpus, guv! Implementing CARE and FAIR principles in a large corpus of German Sign Language
How FAIR and CARE principles can be applied to a large corpus of sign language.
8 November 2022 12:30 — 14:00 Surrey, United Kingdom
Marc Schulder
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Conference Presentation: CARE, FAIR and the DGS Corpus: Implementing Ethical Open Data Practices in a Large Sign Language Dataset
Showing how the DGS Corpus implements FAIR and CARE principles.
7 October 2022 14:30 — 15:00 Berlin, Germany
Marc Schulder, Thomas Hanke
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Conference Presentation: CARE, FAIR and the DGS Corpus: Implementing Ethical Open Data Practices in a Large Sign Language Dataset
Conference Presentation: Not just 'any' sign: Searching for negative polarity items in DGS
Identifying NPIs in German Sign Language via corpus linguistics.
30 September 2022 12:00 — 12:30 Osaka, Japan
Cornelia Loos, Marc Schulder
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Invited Talk: Any NPIs in sight? Searching for negative polarity items in DGS
Using corpus search to find NPIs in DGS.
6 July 2022 13:00 — 14:30 Cologne University, Germany
Cornelia Loos, Marc Schulder
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Lecture: Data Visualisation - Using Graphs and more to Evaluate and Present your Data
How to choose the correct graph for the right job.
4 October 2019 14:00 — 17:30 Hamburg University, Germany
Marc Schulder, Daniel Jettka, Thomas Hanke
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Lecture: Data Visualisation - Using Graphs and more to Evaluate and Present your Data
Tutorial: OpenPose for Linguists
An interactive tutorial on how to do pose detection with OpenPose.
3 October 2019 14:00 — 17:30 Hamburg University, Germany
Maren Brumm, Marc Schulder, Thomas Hanke
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Tutorial: OpenPose for Linguists
Identifying Negation in the DGS Corpus
We present a variety of measures for identifying German Sign Language negation in the DGS corpus.
3 May 2019 15:30 — 16:00 University of Graz, Austria
Marc Schulder, Thomas Hanke
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Identifying Negation in the DGS Corpus