GeoQuery-LSFB: A French Belgian Sign Language Corpus with Procedural Semantic Annotations

GeoQuery-LSFB: A French Belgian Sign Language Corpus with Procedural Semantic Annotations | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Short Report GeoQuery-LSFB: A French Belgian Sign Language Corpus with Procedural Semantic Annotations Liesbet De Vos, Laurence Meurant, Paul Van Eecke, Katrien Beuls This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6924198/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version 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 substantial 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. datasets for low resource languages French Belgian Sign Language multilingual corpora NLP datasets procedural semantics Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. 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