3 papers
cs.CL2024
ASL STEM Wiki: Dataset and Benchmark for Interpreting STEM Articles
Kayo Yin, Chinmay Singh, Fyodor O. Minakov +5
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students face significant barriers in accessing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, notably due to the scarcity of ST…
cs.CL2024
Using Language Models to Disambiguate Lexical Choices in Translation
Josh Barua, Sanjay Subramanian, Kayo Yin +1
In translation, a concept represented by a single word in a source language can have multiple variations in a target language. The task of lexical selection requires using context…
cs.CL2024
American Sign Language Handshapes Reflect Pressures for Communicative Efficiency
Kayo Yin, Terry Regier, Dan Klein
Communicative efficiency is a key topic in linguistics and cognitive psychology, with many studies demonstrating how the pressure to communicate with minimal effort guides the form…