Ableist language teching over sign language research

C Börstell - Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Resources …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
The progress made in computer-assisted linguistics has led to huge advances in natural
language processing (NLP) research. This research often benefits linguistics in a broader …

Testing MediaPipe Holistic for Linguistic Analysis of Nonmanual Markers in Sign Languages

A Kuznetsova, V Kimmelman - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.10367, 2024 - arxiv.org
Advances in Deep Learning have made possible reliable landmark tracking of human
bodies and faces that can be used for a variety of tasks. We test a recent Computer Vision …

Exploiting Association Rules Mining to Inform the Use of Non-Manual Features in Sign Language Processing

RG Smith - 2023 - arrow.tudublin.ie
In recent years, the use of virtual assistants and voice user interfaces has become a latent
part of modern living. Unseen to the user are the various artificial intelligence and natural …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluating the Alignment of Utterances in the Swedish Sign Language Corpus

C Börstell - Proceedings of the LREC-COLING 2024 11th …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Abstract The Swedish Sign Language (STS) Corpus mainly contains segmentations on the
lexical level (ie signs), which makes it difficult to extract information at clause-or utterance …

Going Retro: Astonishingly Simple Yet Effective Rule-based Prosody Modelling for Speech Synthesis Simulating Emotion Dimensions

F Burkhardt, U Reichel, F Eyben, B Schuller - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We introduce two rule-based models to modify the prosody of speech synthesis in order to
modulate the emotion to be expressed. The prosody modulation is based on speech …

[PDF][PDF] XSL-HoReCo and GoSt-ParC-Sign: Two New Signed Language-Written Language Parallel Corpora

M De Sisto, V Vandeghinste, C Brosens… - … papers from the …, 2024 - lirias.kuleuven.be
Developments in language technology targeting signed languages are lagging behind in
compar-ison to the advances related to what is available for so-called spoken languages …

[PDF][PDF] A New English-Dutch-NGT Corpus for the Hospitality Domain

M De Sisto, V Vandeghinste… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - assets.pubpub.org
One of the major challenges hampering the development of language technology which
targets sign languages is the extremely limited availability of good quality data geared …

[PDF][PDF] NGT-HoReCo and GoSt-ParC-Sign: Two new Sign Language-Spoken Language parallel corpora

M De Sisto, D Shterionov, L Soetemans… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - lirias.kuleuven.be
Abstract Language technology targeting both signed and spoken languages is extremely
limited. This is partly due to the scarce availability of good quality signed language data and …