Modelling a parallel corpus of French and French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)

Laurence Meurant; Maxime Gobert; Anthony Cleve

Modelling a parallel corpus of French and French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)

Laurence Meurant, Maxime Gobert, Anthony Cleve

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Abstract

The overarching objective underlying this research is to develop an online tool, based on a parallel corpus of French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and written Belgian French. This tool is aimed to assist various set of tasks related to the comparison of LSFB and French, to the benefit of general users as well as teachers in bilingual schools, translators and interpreters, as well as linguists. These tasks include (1) the comprehension of LSFB or French texts, (2) the production of LSFB or French texts, (3) the translation between LSFB and French in both directions and (4) the contrastive analysis of these languages. The first step of investigation aims at creating an unidirectional French-LSFB concordancer, able to align a one- or multiple-word expression from the French translated text with its corresponding expressions in the videotaped LSFB productions. We aim at testing the efficiency of this concordancer for the extraction of a dictionary of meanings in context. In this paper, we will present the modelling of the different data sources at our disposal and specifically the way they interact with one another.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016
Publisher	European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages	4236-4240
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9782951740891
Publication status	Published - May 2016
Event	LREC 2016 (10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference) - Portoroz, Slovenia Duration: 23 May 2016 → 28 May 2016

Conference

Conference	LREC 2016 (10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference)
Country	Slovenia
City	Portoroz
Period	23/05/16 → 28/05/16

Keywords

Parallel corpus
Sign Language
Written language

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Projects

1 Finished
1 Active

Multimodal and contrastive approach to sign and spoken languages

Meurant, L.

1/03/19 → 1/11/21

Project: Research Axis

SILENT: Towards a corpus-based online tool for French-LSFB bilingual needs

Meurant, L. & Cleve, A.

1/01/16 → 31/12/16

Project: Research

Activities

2 Participation in conference
1 Participation to a Symposium, a study Day
1 Oral presentation
1 Research/Teaching in a external institution

Signing, speaking and gesturing. Moving towards a contrastive and multimodal approach to language and discourse

Laurence Meurant (Organiser), , Terry Janzen (Invited Speaker), , Philippe De Brabanter (Invited Speaker), , Alysson Lepeut (Contributor), & Sébastien Vandenitte (Contributor)

23 Sep 2019

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation to a Symposium, a study Day

A First Online Sign Language - Written Language Parallel Corpus and its Applications

Laurence Meurant (Speaker), , Sibylle Fonze (Speaker), , Aurore Paligot (Speaker), , Maxime Gobert (Speaker), & Anthony Cleve (Speaker)

5 Nov 2018 → 7 Nov 2018

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

EFSLI 2017

Laurence Meurant (Member of Scientific Committee)

2017

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

Press / Media

Le Forum de Midi Première

Laurence Meurant

23/03/18

1 Media contribution

Press/Media: Expert Comment

Datasets

Corpus LSFB. First digital open access corpus of movies and annotations of French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB).

Meurant, L. (Creator), Université de Namur, 15 Dec 2015

http://www.corpus-lsfb.be

Dataset

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Meurant, L., Gobert, M., & Cleve, A. (2016). Modelling a parallel corpus of French and French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB). In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 (pp. 4236-4240). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/index.html

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