The signopsis videos below provide short summarizes
of some of our research projects, presented in Dutch Sign Language (NGT).
Marloes presented her research on questions in NGT
during the opening of the academic year 2024-2025
of UvA's Faculty of Humanities.
The presentation is in NGT with a voice-over in Dutch.
Galya explains her thesis research. She examined question sentences containing the word "who", and investigated how these sentences differ from each other and how people understand questions.
Subtitles are in English.
The TISLR Conference took place in Osaka, Japan. Three of our researchers attended the conference to present their work. In this video, Jenia, Marloes, and Cindy show you around the venue as they explain more about the conference.
This video does not have subtitles.
This video shows the layman talk that Ulrika held at the start of her PhD defense in 2021. She tells more about her dissertation and offers a brief descriptive analysis of two sentences in NGT, so the audience can get a gist of writing a descriptive grammar. The video is in NGT with a voice-over in Dutch.
Subtitles are in Dutch.
In this project we explored the application of a signing avatar for healthcare purposes, during the COVID-19 pandemic. This video summarizes the entire project: its motivation, implementation, and evaluation, and the results.
Subtitles are in Dutch.
Cindy investigated the marking of three aspects in NGT. She finds interesting results, which she explains in this video.
Subtitles are in Dutch.
Cindy investigated pluralization in NGT. In this video, she explains her methods and the pluralization strategies she found.
This video does not have subtitles.
Jenia investigated the agreement of verbs in NGT. This video explains what agreement is, how she investigated it, and what she found.
Subtitles are in Dutch.
Marloes investigated emotion verbs in NGT. This video gives some examples of these verbs, and Marloes tells us how she investigated them and what she found.
Subtitles are in English.
Marloes and Roland investigated negation in NGT. They looked into the Corpus NGT to find negated sentences, and anlayzed them. In this video, Marloes explains their results.
Subtitles are in English.