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Sign language translation (SLT) is often decomposed into video-to-gloss recognition and gloss-to-text translation, where a gloss is a sequence of transcribed spoken-language words in the order in which they are signed. We focus here on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Amit Moryossef , Kayo Yin , Graham Neubig , Yoav Goldberg

Sign language, which conveys meaning through gestures, is the chief means of communication among deaf people. Recognizing sign language in natural settings presents significant challenges due to factors such as lighting, background clutter,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Bowen Shi

Sign Language Translation (SLT) attempts to convert sign language videos into spoken sentences. However, many existing methods struggle with the disparity between visual and textual representations during end-to-end learning. Gloss-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Sobhan Asasi , Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal , Richard Bowden

The goal of semantic parsing is to map natural language to a machine interpretable meaning representation language (MRL). One of the constraints that limits full exploration of deep learning technologies for semantic parsing is the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Xing Fan , Emilio Monti , Lambert Mathias , Markus Dreyer

Sign Language Translation (SLT) aims to automatically convert visual sign language videos into spoken language text and vice versa. While recent years have seen rapid progress, the true sources of performance improvements often remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Jian He Low , Sobhan Asasi , Richard Bowden

Sign languages, often categorised as low-resource languages, face significant challenges in achieving accurate translation due to the scarcity of parallel annotated datasets. This paper introduces Select and Reorder (S&R), a novel approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Harry Walsh , Ben Saunders , Richard Bowden

We explore multitask models for neural translation of speech, augmenting them in order to reflect two intuitive notions. First, we introduce a model where the second task decoder receives information from the decoder of the first task,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Antonios Anastasopoulos , David Chiang

We present a multi-task learning framework for cross-lingual abstractive summarization to augment training data. Recent studies constructed pseudo cross-lingual abstractive summarization data to train their neural encoder-decoders.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Sho Takase , Naoaki Okazaki

Sign language is a visual language that enhances communication between people and is frequently used as the primary form of communication by people with hearing loss. Even so, not many people with hearing loss use sign language, and they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Rupesh Kumar , Ayush Sinha , Ashutosh Bajpai , S. K Singh

Pretraining and multitask learning are widely used to improve the speech to text translation performance. In this study, we are interested in training a speech to text translation model along with an auxiliary text to text translation task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yun Tang , Juan Pino , Xian Li , Changhan Wang , Dmitriy Genzel

Our objective is to translate continuous sign language into spoken language text. Inspired by the way human interpreters rely on context for accurate translation, we incorporate additional contextual cues together with the signing video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Youngjoon Jang , Haran Raajesh , Liliane Momeni , Gül Varol , Andrew Zisserman

Sign Language Translation (SLT) first uses a Sign Language Recognition (SLR) system to extract sign language glosses from videos. Then, a translation system generates spoken language translations from the sign language glosses. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Kayo Yin , Jesse Read

Communication barriers pose significant challenges for individuals with hearing and speech impairments, often limiting their ability to effectively interact in everyday environments. This project introduces a real-time assistive technology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Brandone Fonya , Clarence Worrell

Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT) has advanced rapidly, achieving strong performances without relying on gloss annotations. However, these gains have often come with increased model complexity and high computational demands,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 JianHe Low , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Sign language is the primary communication language for people with disabling hearing loss. Sign language recognition (SLR) systems aim to recognize sign gestures and translate them into spoken language. One of the main challenges in SLR is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Hasan Algafri , Hamzah Luqman , Sarah Alyami , Issam Laradji

Machine learning models fundamentally rely on large quantities of high-quality data. Collecting the necessary data for these models can be challenging due to cost, scarcity, and privacy restrictions. Signed languages are visual languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Harry Walsh , Maksym Ivashechkin , Richard Bowden

The automatic interpretation of sign languages is a challenging task, as it requires the usage of high-level vision and high-level motion processing systems for providing accurate image perception. In this paper, we use Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Gustaf Halvardsson , Johanna Peterson , César Soto-Valero , Benoit Baudry

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a task that has not been studied relatively much compared to the study of Sign Language Recognition (SLR). However, the SLR is a study that recognizes the unique grammar of sign language, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Youngmin Kim , Minji Kwak , Dain Lee , Yeongeun Kim , Hyeongboo Baek

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 translation based on glosses is a prominent approach. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Mathias Müller , Zifan Jiang , Amit Moryossef , Annette Rios , Sarah Ebling

The absence of effective communication the deaf population represents the main social gap in this community. Furthermore, the sign language, main deaf communication tool, is unlettered, i.e., there is no formal written representation. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Fredy Alejandro Mendoza López , Jefferson Rodriguez , Fabio Martínez