Terms of use for ASLLRP data

The data available from these pages can be used for research and education purposes, but cannot be redistributed without permission. Commercial use, without explicit permission, is not allowed, nor are any patents and copyrights based on this material. Those making use of these data must, in resulting publications or presentations, cite: The National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources (NCSLGR) Corpus and this publication: Carol Neidle and Christian Vogler [2012] "A New Web Interface to Facilitate Access to Corpora: Development of the ASLLRP Data Access Interface," Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon, LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey. and also include the following URL's: http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/ and http://secrets.rutgers.edu/dai/queryPages/.

Credits for Data Collection and Annotation

The National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources (NCSLGR) corpus available from this Web site was collected at Boston University under the supervision of
	Carol Neidle (for linguistic aspects of the data collection and annotation of the data)
	Stan Sclaroff (for computer science aspects of data collection, especially issues related to cameras and video files)

• The linguistic data collection, analysis, and annotation were carried out thanks to important contributions of the following people:

  Carol Neidle, Robert G. Lee, Dawn MacLaughlin, Joan Nash, Quinn Duffy, Benjamin Bahan, Michael Schlang, Fran Conlin, Sarah Fish, Donna Riggle, Jessica Scott, Tory Sampson, Carla DaSilva, Lana Cook, Ginger Leon, Norma Bowers Tourangeau, Barbara Eger, Katherine Feldmann, Erica Hruby, Judith Labath, Deborah Perry, John Pirone, Tamara Rae Neuberger, Jon Suen, Jaimee DiMarco, Braden Painter.

  The annotation conventions are documented in reports 11 and 13 linked to this page: http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/reports.html

• Thanks also to the following people for invaluable technical assistance with video data collection and computer vision analysis:

  Stan Sclaroff, Vassilis Athitsos, Ashwin Thangali, Gary Wong, Margrit Betke, Joni Alon, Murat Erdem, Quan Yuan.

• Development of SignStream® has involved contributions from the following people:

  Carol Neidle, Otmar Foelsche, David Greenfield (principal programmer for SignStream® through version 2.2.2), Dawn MacLaughlin, Robert G. Lee, Iryna Zhuravlova, Augustine Opoku, Doug Motto, Greg Dimitriadis (principal programmer for SignStream® version 3), Joan Nash, Ben Bahan, Jason Boyd, Stan Sclaroff, John Olson, Jack Hoza, George Kierstein, Judy Kegl, Patricia Trowbridge.

  The SignStream® annotations are available through the DAI as XML files.

• Development of the Data Access Interface (DAI) was begun by Ben Waber and continued by Eugene Khafizov (with some contributions from Phil Nichols and Steven Li). A major reimplementation was carried out in 2010-12 by Christian Vogler, who was assisted by Richard Goodrow during parts of 2011 and 2012, in collaboration with Carol Neidle and the rest of the research team.

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The grants from the National Science Foundation listed below partially supported the data collection, development of tools for annotation and analysis of the data, the linguistic annotation of the video files, and the web interface:

[1] "SignStream™: A Multimedia Tool for Language Research" (#IIS-9528985, C. Neidle, PI)

[2] "Essential Tools for Computational Research on Visual-Gestural Language Data" (#IIS-9912573, C. Neidle and S. Sclaroff, PI's)

[3] "National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources" (#EIA-9809340 and #EIA-9809209; C. Neidle and S. Sclaroff, PI's at Boston University; D. Metaxas, P.I. at UPenn/Rutgers)

[4] "Pattern Discovery in Signed Languages and Gestural Communication" (#IIS-0329009, C. Neidle, M. Betke, G. Kollios, and S. Sclaroff, PI's)

[5] "ITR: Advances in recognition and interpretation of human motion: An Integrated Approach to ASL Recognition" (#CNS-04279883, PI's -- at BU: C. Neidle; at Rutgers: D. Metaxas; at Gallaudet: C. Vogler)

[6] "Large Lexicon Gesture Representation, Recognition, and Retrieval" (#IIS-0705749, S. Sclaroff and C.Neidle, PI's)

[7] "II-EN: Development of Publicly Available, Easily Searchable, Linguistically Analyzed, Video Corpora for Sign Language and Gesture Research" -- planning grant (#CNS-0958442 C. Neidle and S. Sclaroff, PI's; collaborative with Rutgers U. (D. Metaxas) and U. Texas Arlington (V. Athitsos)).

[8] "Collaborative Research: CI-ADDO-EN: Development of Publicly Available, Easily Searchable, Linguistically Analyzed, Video Corpora for Sign Language and Gesture Research" (#CNS-1059218, C. Neidle and S. Sclaroff, PI's; collaborative with Rutgers U. (D. Metaxas), Gallaudet U. (B. Bahan and C. Vogler), and U. Texas Arlington (V. Athitsos).