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The remarkable understanding and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have greatly improved translation performance. However, incorrect understanding of the sentence to be translated can degrade translation quality. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Andong Chen , Kehai Chen , Yang Xiang , Xuefeng Bai , Muyun Yang , Yang Feng , Tiejun Zhao , Min zhang

Despite recent successes with neural models for sign language translation (SLT), translation quality still lags behind spoken languages because of the data scarcity and modality gap between sign video and text. To address both problems, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Biao Zhang , Mathias Müller , Rico Sennrich

Since the superiority of Transformer in learning long-term dependency, the sign language Transformer model achieves remarkable progress in Sign Language Recognition (SLR) and Translation (SLT). However, there are several issues with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Pan Xie , Mengyi Zhao , Xiaohui Hu

Sign languages are visual languages using manual articulations and non-manual elements to convey information. For sign language recognition and translation, the majority of existing approaches directly encode RGB videos into hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yutong Chen , Ronglai Zuo , Fangyun Wei , Yu Wu , Shujie Liu , Brian Mak

Sign language translation (SLT) is typically trained with text in a single spoken language, which limits scalability and cross-language generalization. Earlier approaches have replaced gloss supervision with text-based sentence embeddings,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yasser Hamidullah , Shakib Yazdani , Cennet Oguz , Josef van Genabith , Cristina España-Bonet

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task that aims to generate spoken language sentences from sign language videos, both of which have different grammar and word/gloss order. From a Neural Machine Translation (NMT) perspective,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Sign language serves as a non-vocal means of communication, transmitting information and significance through gestures, facial expressions, and bodily movements. The majority of current approaches for sign language recognition (SLR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Mo Guan , Yan Wang , Guangkun Ma , Jiarui Liu , Mingzu Sun

Sign Language Translation (SLT) systems support hearing-impaired people communication by finding equivalences between signed and spoken languages. This task is however challenging due to multiple sign variations, complexity in language and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Christian Ruiz , Fabio Martinez

We have come up with a research that hopes to provide a bridge between the users of American Sign Language and the users of spoken language and Indian Sign Language (ISL). The research enabled us to create a novel framework that we have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Malay Kumar , S. Sarvajit Visagan , Tanish Sarang Mahajan , Anisha Natarajan

The goal of automatic Sign Language Production (SLP) is to translate spoken language to a continuous stream of sign language video at a level comparable to a human translator. If this was achievable, then it would revolutionise Deaf hearing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Gloss-free sign language translation (SLT) aims to develop well-performing SLT systems with no requirement for the costly gloss annotations, but currently still lags behind gloss-based approaches significantly. In this paper, we identify a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jinhui Ye , Xing Wang , Wenxiang Jiao , Junwei Liang , Hui Xiong

Sign language serves as the primary meaning of communication for the deaf-mute community. Different from spoken language, it commonly conveys information by the collaboration of manual features, i.e., hand gestures and body movements, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Wengang Zhou , Weichao Zhao , Hezhen Hu , Zecheng Li , Houqiang Li

In this thesis, we propose a multitask learning based method to improve Neural Sign Language Translation (NSLT) consisting of two parts, a tokenization layer and Neural Machine Translation (NMT). The tokenization part focuses on how Sign…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Alptekin Orbay

In this paper, we tackle the problem of sign language translation (SLT) without gloss annotations. Although intermediate representation like gloss has been proven effective, gloss annotations are hard to acquire, especially in large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Kezhou Lin , Xiaohan Wang , Linchao Zhu , Ke Sun , Bang Zhang , Yi Yang

Sign Language Machine Translation (SLMT) aims to bridge communication between Deaf and hearing individuals. However, its progress is constrained by scarce datasets, limited signer diversity, and large domain gaps between sign motion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Nada Shahin , Leila Ismail

Sign Language Translation (SLT) aims to convert sign language videos into spoken or written text. While early systems relied on gloss annotations as an intermediate supervision, such annotations are costly to obtain and often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Current sign language translation (SLT) approaches often rely on gloss-based supervision with Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC), limiting their ability to handle non-monotonic alignments between sign language video and spoken…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Sihan Tan , Taro Miyazaki , Nabeela Khan , Kazuhiro Nakadai

End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) remains elusive even with current large pretrained language models on text and speech, especially in multilingual cases. Machine translation has been established as a powerful pretraining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Mutian He , Philip N. Garner

Sign Language Translation (SLT) bridges the communication gap between deaf people and hearing people, where dialogue provides crucial contextual cues to aid in translation. Building on this foundational concept, this paper proposes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zekang Liu , Wei Feng , Fanhua Shang , Lianyu Hu , Jichao Feng , Liqing Gao

A major impediment to the advancement of sign language translation (SLT) is data scarcity. Much of the sign language data currently available on the web cannot be used for training supervised models due to the lack of aligned captions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Phillip Rust , Bowen Shi , Skyler Wang , Necati Cihan Camgöz , Jean Maillard