| Sumario: | A research group from the Universidad Antonio Nariño at Bogotá, Colombia, collected over four hours of audiovisual interaction between the Dean of the Faculty of Systems Engineering and prospective Colombian students to help answer questions about how to annotate Colombian gesture during spontaneous speech. Out of 10 interviews conducted during two semesters showing dyadic or multiparty interactions and recorded from three angles, the group selected five dyadic interactions from the second semester totaling over an hour and a half to code for gesture and speech behaviors. The group transcribed the speech and coded the behaviors of the Dean using the NEUROGES-ELAN coding system and the ELAN annotation software, adjusted to the group's purposes. The group was able to achieve acceptable inter-rater reliability (around 80%) for all NEUROGES-ELAN modules. From the last Function category tier in NEUROGES-ELAN, which corresponds to conversational gestures, the group further determined lexical entries and assigned lexical affiliates. The results were then used to generate a gesture lexicon based on lexical affiliates. Lessons learned from the gesture/speech corpus will be applied to the recording and annotation of future Colombian gesture corpora with other subjects and in other contexts.
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