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Corpus LSFB

The LSFB Corpus is a collection of French Belgian Sign Language data from 100 signers from the Walloon Region of Belgium and Brussels. The LSFB Corpus project ran from 2012–2015, was based at the French Belgian Sign Language Laboratory (LSFB-Lab) at the University of Namur and led by Laurence Meurant.

A diverse set of data collection tasks was used to collect different discourse genres. Some of the tasks were adopted from the DGS Corpus, Corpus NGT, Corpus Vlaamse Gebarentaal and Auslan Corpus (Johnston and Schembri, 2006). A deaf moderator lead through the tasks

The signers came into a studio in pairs and were filmed with three JVC Pro HD 3 CCD cameras from two different angles: upper body and wide shot of both. The moderator was filmed with a Sony DV Handycam. The videos are in HD resolution with 50 frames per second.

Language French Belgian Sign Language
Size 150 hours recorded, 104000 tokens annotated
Participants 100 participants
30 native signers, 26 near-native signers, 44 late signers
4 age groups: 18–25, 26–45, 46–65, 66–95 years old
57 female, 43 male
Metadata Format not available
Translation French, 2.5 hours translated (1.6%)
Annotation 12 hours annotated (8%)
Following Johnston (2010)
See Sinte et al. (2015) for more information
Data Format ELAN, EDIUS, Lex-LSFB
Licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Access Public access requires registration
Restricted access for researchers, teachers, students and interpreters requires confirmed registration
Webpage Project page including data: https://www.corpus-lsfb.be
Institution University of Namur

Cite as

Meurant, L. 2015. Corpus LSFB. First digital open access corpus of movies and annotations of French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB). LSFB-Lab, University of Namur. URL: http://www.corpus-lsfb.be

Common tasks used in this corpus

Task Deaf life experiences
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 76 (deafclub), 61 (childhood), 50 (hobbies)
Data available none
Task Describe process
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 58
Data available none
Task Free conversation
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available none
Task Frog Story
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 22
Data available none
Task Jokes
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 16
Data available none
Task Language awareness
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 54 (emotions), 44 (norms and signing)
Data available none
Task Role play
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 41
Data available none
Task Route description
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 50
Data available none
Task Sign Name
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 50
Data available none
Task Subject areas
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 11 (family), 18 (education)
Data available none

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This entry was last modified on 6 January 2023.