Press release 5 – Dissemination of the Corpus project

Press release 5 – Dissemination of the Corpus project

Exchanging information, doubts and progress is always very important in any scientific project. That is why we were very excited to be able to participate in the ‘Digging into signs workshop’, at the University College London, on March 30-31, 2015, by...
Press release 4 – Recordings at the Llar del Sord de LLeida

Press release 4 – Recordings at the Llar del Sord de LLeida

The second association where we made recordings was at the Association of Deaf people in Lleida (Llar del Sord de Lleida), which is an entity founded in 1953 and the only association linked to LSC in the entire Segrià region. As the organization of data collection is...
Press release 3 – The annotations of the LSC corpus

Press release 3 – The annotations of the LSC corpus

Currently there is no computer program that allows us to analyse the signs that appear in the recordings directly, that is, starting from the image. For this reason, after the recording it is necessary to synchronize the visual data with an annotation, in text format,...
Press Release 2.- Dissemination of the LSC Corpus project of the LS

Press Release 2.- Dissemination of the LSC Corpus project of the LS

With the aim of publicizing the Corpus project, we made two presentations at dissemination conferences. The first presentation was at the conference of CNLSE  (Centro de Normalización Lingüística de la Lengua de Signos Española), held in Madrid in September 2013. The...
Press Release 1 – Recordings made in APESOTE and in FESOCA

Press Release 1 – Recordings made in APESOTE and in FESOCA

The first recordings of the Corpus LSC were carried out at the Associació de Persones Sordes de Terrassa (APESOTE) during September 2013. There we filmed adult and elderly man-woman pairs. The kind welcome from APESOTE, through the partners and Noelia Hernández, who...
Press Release 0 – Corpus Project of Catalan Sign Language (LSC)

Press Release 0 – Corpus Project of Catalan Sign Language (LSC)

​ Today we start the newsletter of the Corpus of Catalan Sign Language (LSC) project. As some of you may know, in 2012 the Institut d’Estudis Catalans started a pilot project for the LSC Corpus. This project aims to collect data from native LSC signers from all...