Corpus LSFB
The LSFB Corpus is a collection of LSFBFrench 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 | information 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
Hide/Show tasks
| 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 | information 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 |
References
Primary references
- Aurélie Sinte, Christophe De Clerck, Sibylle Fonzé, Susana Sanchez, Gauthier Raes, Laurence Meurant (2015). "Corpus LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language). Current annotation conventions compared to the "Digging into signs" suggestions".
References to other works
- Trevor Johnston (2010). "From archive to corpus: Transcription and annotation in the creation of signed language corpora". In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15(1). John Benjamins, pp. 106-131. ISSN: 1569-9811. DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.15.1.05joh.
- Trevor Johnston, Adam Schembri (2006). "Issues in the creation of a digital archive of a signed language". In: Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork: "From creation to archive and back" (Sydney, Australia). Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press, pp. 7-16. ISBN: 978-1-920898-50-2.
This entry was last modified on 4 March 2025.