STK LSF: A Motion Capture Dataset in LSF for SignToKids
Résumé
This article presents a new bilingual dataset in written French and French Sign Language (LSF), called \textit{STK LSF}. This corpus is currently being produced as part of the SignToKids project. The aim of this corpus is to provide digital educational tools for deaf children, thereby facilitating the joint learning of LSF and written French. More broadly, it is intended to support future studies on the automatic processing of signed languages. To define this corpus, we focused on several grammatical phenomena typical to LSF, as well as in tales usually studied by hearing children in the second cycle in France. The corpus data represent approximately 1 hour of recording, carried out with a motion capture system (MoCap) offering a spatial precision of less than 1 mm and a temporal precision of 240 Hz. This high level of precision guarantees the quality of the data collected, which will be used both to build pedagogical scenarios in French and LSF, including signing avatar videos, and for automatic translation of text into LSF.