GeoQuery-LSFB: A French Belgian Sign Language Corpus with Procedural Semantic Annotations
De Vos, Liesbet 
| Meurant, Laurence | Van Eecke, Paul | Beuls, Katrien
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the LREC2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion
- Venue:
- Palma, Mallorca, Spain
- Date:
- 16 May 2026
- Pages:
- 100–112
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Licence:
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- sign-lang ID:
- 26002
- ISBN:
- 978-2-493814-82-1
Abstract
Procedural semantic representations describe the meaning of natural language expressions in terms of computer programs that can be evaluated against images, databases, knowledge graphs or other external resources. While resources annotated with procedural semantic representations already exist for a variety of spoken languages, such resources are still lacking entirely for signed languages. In this paper, we introduce GeoQuery-LSFB as a signed language extension to the multilingual GeoQuery corpus. Concretely, we have complemented each procedural semantic annotation from the original corpus with a corresponding French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) expression that was phonetically transcribed from video recordings following the HamNoSys convention and annotated with French ID-glosses. The GeoQuery-LSFB corpus constitutes a new resource for a low-resource language and offers for the first time the possibility to study, from an onomasialogical perspective, a signed language along a diverse variety of spoken languages.Document Download
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Liesbet De Vos, Laurence Meurant, Paul Van Eecke, Katrien Beuls. 2026. GeoQuery-LSFB: A French Belgian Sign Language Corpus with Procedural Semantic Annotations. In Proceedings of the LREC2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion, pages 100–112, Palma, Mallorca, Spain. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).BibTeX Export
@inproceedings{devos:26002:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {De Vos, Liesbet and Meurant, Laurence and Van Eecke, Paul and Beuls, Katrien},
title = {{GeoQuery-LSFB}: A {French} {Belgian} {Sign} {Language} Corpus with Procedural Semantic Annotations},
pages = {100--112},
editor = {Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Mesch, Johanna and Schulder, Marc},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2026} 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion},
maintitle = {15th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2026)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Palma, Mallorca, Spain},
day = {16},
month = may,
year = {2026},
isbn = {978-2-493814-82-1},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/26002.html}
}