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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Information structure in Russian sign language and sign language of the Netherlands:(University of Amsterdam, 2014)

V Kimmelman - Sign Language & Linguistics, 2015 - vadimkimmelman.com
Information Structure in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands Page 1
Sign Language & Linguistics 18:1 (2015), 142–150. doi 10.1075/sll.18.1.06kim issn 1387–9316 …

Linguistically motivated sign language segmentation

A Moryossef, Z Jiang, M Müller, S Ebling… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Sign language segmentation is a crucial task in sign language processing systems. It
enables downstream tasks such as sign recognition, transcription, and machine translation …

The phonology of focus in Sign Language of the Netherlands1

O Crasborn, E Van der Kooij - Journal of Linguistics, 2013 - cambridge.org
Signed languages are similar to spoken languages in the overall organisation of their
grammars, displaying a prosodic level of organisation that is not isomorphic to the syntactic …

Towards understanding nonmanuality: A semiotic treatment of signers' head movements

A Puupponen - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2019 - glossa-journal.org
This article discusses a certain type of nonmanual action, signers' head movements, from a
semiotic perspective. It presents a typology of head movements and their iconic, indexical …

Turns and turn-taking in sign language interaction: A study of turn-final holds

S Groeber, E Pochon-Berger - Journal of Pragmatics, 2014 - Elsevier
This article examines a recurrent phenomenon in sign language interaction: the freezing of a
sign, called a 'hold', in turn-final position. This phenomenon is traditionally described as a …

LOOKing for multi-word expressions in American Sign Language

L Hou - Cognitive Linguistics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Usage-based linguistics postulates that multi-word expressions constitute a substantial part
of language structure and use, and are formed through repeated chunking and stored as …

Modeling intensification for sign language generation: a computational approach

M Inan, Y Zhong, S Hassan, L Quandt… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
End-to-end sign language generation models do not accurately represent the prosody in
sign language. A lack of temporal and spatial variations leads to poor-quality generated …