7 papers
What Do We Mean by 'Pilot Study': Early Findings from a Meta-Review of Pilot Study Reporting at CHI
Belu Ticona, Amna Liaqat, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Pilot studies (PS) are ubiquitous in HCI research. CHI papers routinely reference 'pilot studies', 'pilot tests', or 'preliminary studies' to justify design decisions, verify proce…
Developing a Mixed-Methods Pipeline for Community-Oriented Digitization of Kwak'wala Legacy Texts
Milind Agarwal, Daisy Rosenblum, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Kwak'wala is an Indigenous language spoken in British Columbia, with a rich legacy of published documentation spanning more than a century, and an active community of speakers, tea…
Cross-Lingual Representation Alignment Through Contrastive Image-Caption Tuning
Nathaniel Krasner, Nicholas Lanuzo, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Multilingual alignment of sentence representations has mostly required bitexts to bridge the gap between languages. We investigate whether visual information can bridge this gap in…
Automated Python Translation
Joshua Otten, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Kevin Moran
Python is one of the most commonly used programming languages in industry and education. Its English keywords and built-in functions/modules allow it to come close to pseudo-code i…
Back to School: Translation Using Grammar Books
Jonathan Hus, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Machine translation systems for high resource languages perform exceptionally well and produce high quality translations. Unfortunately, the vast majority of languages are not cons…
Gloss2Text: Sign Language Gloss translation using LLMs and Semantically Aware Label Smoothing
Pooya Fayyazsanavi, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Jana Košecká
Sign language translation from video to spoken text presents unique challenges owing to the distinct grammar, expression nuances, and high variation of visual appearance across dif…
Script-Agnostic Language Identification
Milind Agarwal, Joshua Otten, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Language identification is used as the first step in many data collection and crawling efforts because it allows us to sort online text into language-specific buckets. However, man…