LSE-Sign: A lexical database for Spanish Sign Language

Published online: 29 January 2015The LSE-Sign database is a free online tool for selecting Spanish Sign Language stimulus materials to be used in experiments. It contains 2,400 individual signs taken from a recent standardized LSE dictionary, and a further 2,700 related nonsigns. Each entry is coded for a wide range of grammatical, phonological, and articulatory information, including handshape, location, movement, and non-manual elements. The database is accessible via a graphically based search facility which is highly flexible both in terms of the search options available and the way the results are displayed. LSE-Sign is available at the following website: http://www. bcbl.eu/databases/lse/.The creation of the LSE-Sign tool was partially funded by grants LSE - SIGN PSI 2008-0416-E/EPSIC from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and PSI2012-31448 from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad to MC. CB was supported by a post-doctoral fellowship JCI-2010-06504 from the Spanish Government and is now supported by the People Program (Marie Curie Actions, FP7-PEOPLE 2014-2016) under REA agreement nº623845