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Digging into Signs

17 January 2014

Ten international research funders from four countries jointly have announced the winners of the third Digging into Data Challenge, a competition to develop new insights, tools and skills in innovative humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis.



Fourteen teams representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States will receive grants to investigate how computational techniques can be applied to "big data"; changing the nature of humanities and social sciences research. Each team represents collaborations among scholars, scientists, and information professionals from leading universities and libraries in Europe and North America.

One of these teams is a collaboration between DCAL's Kearsy Cormier and Onno Crasborn (Radboud University, Nijmegen) to develop annotation standards for sign language corpora, using the British Sign Language Corpus and the Corpus NGT (i.e. a corpus of Sign Language of the Netherlands).

Click here for more information about the Digging into Data scheme, including a description of the "Digging into Signs" project.