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author = {Kopf, Maria and
Konrad, Reiner and
Langer, Gabriele and
Schulder, Marc and
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editor = "Efthimiou, Eleni and
Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and
Hanke, Thomas and
Hochgesang, Julie A. and
Mesch, Johanna and
Schulder, Marc",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the {LREC} 2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
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pages = "262--274",
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%A Kopf, Maria
%A Konrad, Reiner
%A Langer, Gabriele
%A Schulder, Marc
%A König, Lutz
%Y Efthimiou, Eleni
%Y Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita
%Y Hanke, Thomas
%Y Hochgesang, Julie A.
%Y Mesch, Johanna
%Y Schulder, Marc
%S Proceedings of the LREC 2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
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Markdown (Informal)
[Exploring Aspects of Spontaneous Signing in the DGS Corpus](https://aclanthology.org/2026.signlang-1.28/) (Kopf et al., SignLang 2026)
ACL
- Maria Kopf, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer, Marc Schulder, and Lutz König. 2026. Exploring Aspects of Spontaneous Signing in the DGS Corpus. In Proceedings of the LREC 2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion, pages 262–274, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).