Multimodal corpora: annotation practices, tools and analysis of the (multimodal) spoken and sign language corpus data

Abstrakt

The interactive workshop will focus on convergences between the study of co-speech gestures in spoken language and the corpus-based sign language linguistics. In the first half of the session, a general overview of multimodal corpus-based research methods will be given, including both spoken and sign language corpora.

Examples of multimodal data annotation using ELAN annotation software and analyses of both spoken and sign language data will be presented. The second half of the workshop is intended as a collaborative data session - participants are invited to bring their own multimodal (corpus) material for brief data demonstrations (regardless of the current stage of the research) followed by discussion.