American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project (ASLLRP) Data Access Interface (DAI) 2 Version 2.0


Sign Statistics

Statistics

The Statistics page provides information about the various dataset included in the Sign Bank.

NOTE this is all based on what is occurring on the dominant hand.

One-handed signs produced with the non-dominant hand are not included in these counts.

*Counts do not include Classifiers, Gestures and Fingerspelled Signs

**Total number of tokens
Number of... American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project (ASLLRP) SignStream® 3 Corpus: Continuous Signing American Sign Language Lexicon Video Dataset (ASLLVD): Citation-Form Signs RIT Isolated Signs DSP Isolated Signs DSP Sentences RIT Sentences Entire Sign Bank
Primary entries for signs* 1319 2770 2174 1830 1033 601 3801
Distinct sign entries/variants* 1898 4096 3410 2285 1266 783 6587
Sign tokens 17522 9747 11796 2972 3172 3081 48290
Collections 47 N/A N/A N/A 33 4 N/A
Utterances 2127 N/A N/A N/A 526 280 N/A
Lexical Signs** 14736 8559 9697 2639 2905 2554 38536
Fingerspelled Signs** 1017 17 61 20 20 233 1115
Loan Signs** 582 142 221 88 56 94 1089
Gestures** 309 0 0 4 7 81 317
Classifiers** 397 47 0 25 50 22 519
Number Signs** 118 236 405 4 45 28 808
Compounds** 363 746 1412 199 89 69 2809
Name Signs** 526 411 1 113 34 94 1085


Click here to view handshape statistics - American Sign Language Lexicon Video Dataset (ASLLVD): Citation-Form Signs

Click here to view handshape statistics - American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project (ASLLRP) SignStream® 3 Corpus



Statistics         For the ASLLRP SignStream® 3 Corpus, specifically. NOTE this is all based on what is occurring on the dominant hand

Sign Characteristics

Lexical SignsFingerspelled SignsName SignsLoan SignsClassifiers
One Handed77181017506574102
One Handed - Marked # Hands6371020
Two Handed70180208295
Two Handed - Marked # Hands1970081
Passive Base Arm2570708


Utterance Characteristics

Total Occurrences
Negative736
WH Question341
Yes-No Question259
Rhetorical Question288
Topic/Focus1615
Conditional/When486
Role Shift102
Relative Clause45