University of Hamburg - to research, to teach, to educate and form, to homepage
IDGS
Institute of
German Sign Language and
Communication of the Deaf

Photo: UHH/Denstorf

LDK conference in Naples

24 September 2025

LDK Konferenz Neapel

Photo: UHH/IDGS

From September 9 to 11, 2025, the LDK 2025 (5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge) took place in Naples, Italy. There, Marc Schulder presented a poster entitled “Making Sign Language Research Findable: The sign-lang@LREC Anthology and the Sign Language Dataset Compendium.” In the poster, he presented two websites designed to help make sign language research easier to find. The Sign Language Dataset Compendium provides an overview of existing research data, and the sign-lang@LREC Anthology helps users search for relevant publications.

Latest articles

Gallaudet

Photo: UHH/IDGS/D2L

25.09.2025|IDGS-en
IDGS meets Gallaudet

From September 12 to 14, 2025, the annual conference of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) took place at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. Traditionally, the conference has focused on spoken language research. However, in recent years, contributions on sign language research...

SignCafe3

Photo: UHH/IDGS

22.09.2025|IDGS-en
SignCAFÉ 3 in Warsaw

On September 18 and 19, 2025, the third Sign Café Conference took place in Warsaw, Poland. The IDGS was represented with contributions on various sign languages – from DGS to Kenyan Sign Language to Uruguayan Sign Language. Felicitas Otte gave a presentation on referential expressions in the DGS...