Dataset Details

Dataset name Nederlandse Gebarentaal
Acronym NGT
Number of glosses 6863 public glosses, 7384 total
Accessible by others True
Owner & Contact person(s) Micha Hulsbosch (micha)
Description

First release (2020): A basic set of glosses created by Radboud University Nijmegen for the annotation of the Corpus NGT
(https://www.corpusngt.nl/).
Second release (2025): Additional glosses created by University of Amsterdam from November 2023-February 2025.
Third release (release date not determined yet): Developed after February 2025.
Glosses in the NGT dataset have labels which show during which release they were created.

Sign language NGT (Nederlandse Gebarentaal)
Translation languages Dutch, English
Default language Dutch
Conditions for data citation and usage

A Creative Commons BY 4.0 International license applies to all accessible lexical items. Only name signs and test items
have not been made accessible to unregistered users.
Example sentences from the Corpus NGT (in the panel 'example sentences' of some glosses) have a stricter license: CC
BY-NC-SA-4.0

Copyright statement
Reference

Release 1: Onno Crasborn, Richard Bank, Inge Zwitserlood, Els van der Kooij, Ellen Ormel, Johan Ros, Anique Schüller,
Anne de Meijer, Merel van Zuilen, Yassine Ellen Nauta, Frouke van Winsum, & Max Vonk (2020) NGT dataset in Global
Signbank [release 1]. Nijmegen: Radboud University, Centre for Language Studies. ISLRN: 976-021-358-388-6, DOI:
10.13140/RG.2.1.2839.1446.
Release 2: Ulrika Klomp, Richard Bank, Onno Crasborn, Lisa Gierman, Els van der Kooij, Pieter Manders, Anne de Meijer,
Ellen Nauta, Marloes Oomen, Ellen Ormel, Gomèr Otterspeer, Ray Pelupessy, Tobias de Ronde, Johan Ros, Anique Schüller,
Galya Stern, Dalene Venter, Max Vonk, Frouke van Winsum, Casper Wubbolts, Merel van Zuilen, Inge Zwitserlood & Floris
Roelofsen (2025) NGT dataset in Global Signbank [release 2]. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.


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