Including signed languages in natural language processing

K Yin, A Moryossef, J Hochgesang, Y Goldberg… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Signed languages are the primary means of communication for many deaf and hard of
hearing individuals. Since signed languages exhibit all the fundamental linguistic properties …

Findings of the first wmt shared task on sign language translation (wmt-slt22)

M Müller, S Ebling, E Avramidis, A Battisti… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents the results of the First WMT Shared Task on Sign Language Translation
(WMT-SLT22). This shared task is concerned with automatic translation between signed and …

Considerations for meaningful sign language machine translation based on glosses

M Müller, Z Jiang, A Moryossef, A Rios… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Automatic sign language processing is gaining popularity in Natural Language Processing
(NLP) research (Yin et al., 2021). In machine translation (MT) in particular, sign language …

Findings of the second WMT shared task on sign language translation (WMT-SLT23)

M Müller, M Alikhani, E Avramidis, R Bowden… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - hal.science
This paper presents the results of the Second WMT Shared Task on Sign Language
Translation (WMT-SLT23) 1. This shared task is concerned with automatic translation …

The sign language dataset compendium: Creating an overview of digital linguistic resources

M Kopf, M Schulder, T Hanke - Proceedings of the LREC2022 …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
One of the challenges that sign language researchers face is the identification of suitable
language datasets, particularly for cross-lingual studies. There is no single source of …

Sharing practices for datasets related to accessibility and aging

R Kamikubo, U Dwivedi, H Kacorri - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Datasets sourced from people with disabilities and older adults play an important role in
innovation, benchmarking, and mitigating bias for both assistive and inclusive AI-infused …

The American Sign Language Knowledge Graph: Infusing ASL Models with Linguistic Knowledge

L Kezar, N Munikote, Z Zeng, Z Sehyr, N Caselli… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Language models for American Sign Language (ASL) could make language technologies
substantially more accessible to those who sign. To train models on tasks such as isolated …

Real-Time Multilingual Sign Language Processing

A Moryossef - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.01991, 2024 - arxiv.org
Sign Language Processing (SLP) is an interdisciplinary field comprised of Natural
Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision. It is focused on the computational …

Distractor-based evaluation of sign spotting

N Hollain, M Larson, F Roelofsen - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sign spotting is a subtask of sign language processing in which we determine when a given
target sign occurs in a given sign sequence. This paper proposes a method for evaluating …

An Open-Source American Sign Language Fingerspell Recognition and Semantic Pose Retrieval Interface

KJ Thomas - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.09311, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces an open-source interface for American Sign Language fingerspell
recognition and semantic pose retrieval, aimed to serve as a stepping stone towards more …