The Corpus NGT is a collection of data from deaf signers using Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). The data consist of recordings with multiple synchronised video cameras, accompanied by gloss and translation annotations.
This is a corpus of four European sign languages. It contains richly annotated video files of Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse Gebarentaal), British Sign Language, and Swedish Sign Language; data include narratives, dialogues, small lexicons, and poetry. In addition, parts of a corpus of German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache) is included that was already published on paper before.
The Visibase corpus is the outcome of a NWO Investment Grant (1996-2001), which aimed to digitise and describe all sign language video material that was present in the late 1990s at the sign language research groups at the University of Amsterdam and at Leiden University. In the course of the project, all analogue video tapes were copied to professional digital video tapes (DVCAM). Fragments of the 300+ hour corpus have been converted to MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 files.