Researchers from the Philippine Deaf Resource Center

20-21 Jun 2011

Two hearing and one Deaf researcher from the Philippine Deaf Resource Center visited our centre for two days of training on the construction of a sign language corpus and the use of ELAN software. The two research teams briefly introduced their on-going projects to each other. During the training, the coding systems of the Child HKSL Corpus and Child HKSL-Cantonese Bilingual Corpus were introduced to the researchers. In return, they shared their experience in the coding of non-manual signs. Second, our research team demonstrated the various functions of ELAN to the Filipino researchers. As they planned to construct a database for Filipino Sign Language, our staff also introduced the Asian Sign Bank to them.

The Filipino researchers (the three on the right) exchanged their ideas on the coding system of sign language data with our team members

The Filipino researchers and our team members
Left to right: Prof. Scholastica Lam, Ms Ada Lau, Mr George Lintag, Mr Pippen Wong, Ms Pearlie Talens, and Mr Ed Peter Cabalfin