4 papers
DiscoSign: Discourse-Aware Text to Sign Language Gloss Translation
Vasileios Baltatzis, Mert Inan, Connor Gillis +4
Sign language processing systems have traditionally operated at the sentence level, ignoring critical discourse phenomena fundamental to sign language comprehension. We introduce D…
Bootstrapping Sign Language Annotations with Sign Language Models
Colin Lea, Vasileios Baltatzis, Connor Gillis +3
AI-driven sign language interpretation is limited by a lack of high-quality annotated data. New datasets including ASL STEM Wiki and FLEURS-ASL contain professional interpreters an…
The Interspeech 2025 Speech Accessibility Project Challenge
Xiuwen Zheng, Bornali Phukon, Jonghwan Na +13
While the last decade has witnessed significant advancements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, performance of these systems for individuals with speech disabilities re…
Towards AI-driven Sign Language Generation with Non-manual Markers
Han Zhang, Rotem Shalev-Arkushin, Vasileios Baltatzis +7
Sign languages are essential for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community. Sign language generation systems have the potential to support communication by translating from writ…