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Mads Pedersen Visits the IDGS

21 April 2026

Mads Pedersen

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From April 21–23, 2026, Mads Pedersen from Denmark visited the DGS Corpus Project along with his colleague Line Lambrecht. On April 21, he presented the Dictionary of Danish Sign Language and a study on user behavior. It was wonderful to have him and his colleague here and to be able to discuss the corpus and dictionary with them.

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