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Detecting Unseen Multiword Expressions in American Sign Language
Lee Kezar, Aryan Shukla
Multiword expressions present unique challenges in many translation tasks. In an attempt to ultimately apply a multiword expression detection system to the translation of American…
Finding Pragmatic Differences Between Disciplines
Lee Kezar, Jay Pujara
Scholarly documents have a great degree of variation, both in terms of content (semantics) and structure (pragmatics). Prior work in scholarly document understanding emphasizes sem…
The Sem-Lex Benchmark: Modeling ASL Signs and Their Phonemes
Lee Kezar, Elana Pontecorvo, Adele Daniels +6
Sign language recognition and translation technologies have the potential to increase access and inclusion of deaf signing communities, but research progress is bottlenecked by a l…
Exploring Strategies for Modeling Sign Language Phonology
Lee Kezar, Riley Carlin, Tejas Srinivasan +3
Like speech, signs are composed of discrete, recombinable features called phonemes. Prior work shows that models which can recognize phonemes are better at sign recognition, motiva…
Improving Sign Recognition with Phonology
Lee Kezar, Jesse Thomason, Zed Sevcikova Sehyr
We use insights from research on American Sign Language (ASL) phonology to train models for isolated sign language recognition (ISLR), a step towards automatic sign language unders…