LESCO Corpus
The LESCO Corpus is a collection of videos of LESCOCosta Rican Sign Language signers. Of a total of 196 filming sessions, producing 34 hours of recording and involving 141 signers 44 films showing 27 signers and totalling in 2 hours of recodring were selected for the corpus.
The corpus was produced between 2010 and 2013 in a project led by Alejandro Oviedo and Christian Ramírez Valerio.
The signers are filmed in a dialogic situation with a Deaf researcher present. Filming was done with two to three cameras, filming each participant and – for some filming – a close-up of the informants face. The data contains elicitation with a structured interview based on a questionaire, unstructured dialogue between informant and a Deaf researcher, unstructured dialogue between two informants, narration of a cartoon short film and free narration about personal anecdotes.
On basis of the LESCO Corpus the Dictionary of LESCO and a grammar of LESCO are created.
| Language | Costa Rican Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Size |
34 hours of recording
44 films selected for the corpus |
| Participants |
141 participants in total of which 27 were selected for the corpus
32 years old in avarage 13 female, 14 male From Central Valles |
| Metadata Format | information not available |
| Translation | Spanish, size unknown |
| Annotation |
Translation and ID-glosses in Spanish, manual and non-manual parameters annotated
Made by five Deaf LESCO users |
| Data Format | ELAN |
| Licence | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Access | information not available |
| Webpage |
https://lesco.cenarec.go.cr/ 
|
| Institution | Centro Nacional de Recursos para la Educación Inclusiva (CENAREC) |
| Publications | Oviedo and Ramírez Valerio (2018) |
Cite as
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References
Primary references
- Alejandro Oviedo, Christian Ramírez Valerio (2018). "The LESCO Corpus. Data for the Description of Costa Rican Sign Language". In: Proceedings of the LREC2018 8th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Involving the Language Community (Miyazaki, Japan). Ed. by Mayumi Bono, Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch, Yutaka Osugi. Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 167-170. ISBN: 979-10-95546-01-6.
This entry was last modified on 27 March 2025.