KAZOO: a sign language generation platform based on production rules
Résumé
In this paper, we describe KAZOO, a web application for sign language (SL) generation using a virtual signer. We first explain the motivation to this project, which is grounded on an SL-specific approach, i.e. designed solely from SL corpus analysis and modelling. Then, we present various projects we worked in the past few years, on linguistic modelling, and 3d animation. Our platform architecture integrates parts of this work and new pieces of software allowing control and linking of all these components. This is an on-going project, but the current version offer the possibility to automatically animate a virtual signer and synthesise the contents using an abstract representation, our linguistic model AZee, providing a means of validating this model.