Juhana Salonen

Juhana Salonen

Project researcher (absent)
Unit
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department / Division
Department of Language and Communication Studies
Room number
A 317.9
Email
juhana.salonen@jyu.fi
Mobile
+358443241332
Postal address
Seminaarinkatu 15
Fields of science
6121 Languages

Research interests

- Corpus project of Finland´s sign languages (2014-2018), Corpus work of Finland´s sign languages (2019->)
- Signbank lexicon database management
- Information for the Sign Language Centre
- Author of the book ´I Sign, Therefore I Am" and experiential work on language, culture and identity
- Member of the University of Jyväskylä Language Campus Steering Group
- Member of the Equity Team of the University of Jyväskylä
- Member of the Supervisory Board of the Deaf Service Foundation

Publications

Publication
2020

The Corpus of Finnish Sign Language

Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives. European Language Resources Distribution Agency.
Salonen, Juhana
Kronqvist, Antti
Jantunen, Tommi
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Projects

Project

Corpus of Finland-Swedish Sign Language: translating sign language into Swedish, Signbank videos and a signed user manual

The project will produce a Swedish translation of the Finland-Swedish sign language corpus, a lexical database and a signed user manual.
Project

Nordic Signed Language Corpus Network (NSLCN)

The project will organize three workshops and bring together a network of Nordic signed language researchers, who all work with multimodal SL corpora using a cognitive-functional linguistic approach.
Project

FIN-CLARIAH

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Jyväskylä is part of the national research infrastructure FIN-CLARIAH aiming to create new tools and methods for researchers.