What kind of language is sign language? The linguistic theory of sign languages is currently under discussion all over the world. Our goal is to establish a theory of multimodal semiotics unique to sign languages, to develop a "next-generation corpus of sign languages", and to share this corpus with academic communities.
Mayumi Bono (Hearing)
Principal Investigator
Research Area : Icons and Pragmatics, Interaction Analysis
National Institute of Informatics Associate Professor
Naomi Harada (Hearing)
Co-Investigator
Research Area : Index and Syntax, Theoretical Linguistics
Tokyo Metropolitan Public University Professor
Naoya Fujikawa (Hearing)
Co-Investigator
Research Area : Symbols and Semantics, Philosophy of Language
The University of Tokyo Associate Professor
Yutaka Osugi (Deaf)
Co-Investigator
Research Area : Deaf Studies, Sign Language Linguistics
Tsukuba University of Technology Professor
Keiko Sagara (Deaf)
Co-Investigator
Research Area : New Data Recording Design, Sign Language Linguistics
National Museum of Ethnology Project Assistant Professor
Victor SKOBOV (Hearing)
Research Collaborator
Research Area : Providing Deep Learning Technology
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies(Sokendai) graduate student
Tomohiro Okada (Deaf)
Research Collaborator
Research Area : Corpus Data Management, Data Recording Design Assistance
National Institute of Informatics Technical Staff
Eiji Taira (Hearing)
Research Collaborator
Research Area : Data Recording Design Assistance
National Institute of Informatics Project Researcher
Eri Nasu (Deaf)
Advisor for Deaf Culture and Deaf Community