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

Liesbet De Vos, Laurence Meurant, Paul Van Eecke, Katrien Beuls


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.
Anthology ID:
2026.signlang-1.11
Volume:
Proceedings of the LREC 2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
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Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Johanna Mesch, Marc Schulder
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SignLang | WS
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ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Pages:
100–112
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-signlang-11
DOI:
10.63317/3beia2n27dp3
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Liesbet De Vos, Laurence Meurant, Paul Van Eecke, and Katrien Beuls. 2026. GeoQuery-LSFB: A French Belgian Sign Language Corpus with Procedural Semantic Annotations. In Proceedings of the LREC 2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion, pages 100–112, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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GeoQuery-LSFB: A French Belgian Sign Language Corpus with Procedural Semantic Annotations (De Vos et al., SignLang 2026)
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