7 papers
A Critical Study of Automatic Evaluation in Sign Language Translation
Shakib Yazdani, Yasser Hamidullah, Cristina España-Bonet +2
Automatic evaluation metrics are crucial for advancing sign language translation (SLT). Current SLT evaluation metrics, such as BLEU and ROUGE, are only text-based, and it remains…
Preliminary Ranking of WMT25 General Machine Translation Systems
Tom Kocmi, Eleftherios Avramidis, Rachel Bawden +25
We present the preliminary rankings of machine translation (MT) systems submitted to the WMT25 General Machine Translation Shared Task, as determined by automatic evaluation metric…
Transfer Learning from Visual Speech Recognition to Mouthing Recognition in German Sign Language
Dinh Nam Pham, Eleftherios Avramidis
Sign Language Recognition (SLR) systems primarily focus on manual gestures, but non-manual features such as mouth movements, specifically mouthing, provide valuable linguistic info…
The TUB Sign Language Corpus Collection
Eleftherios Avramidis, Vera Czehmann, Fabian Deckert +8
We present a collection of parallel corpora of 12 sign languages in video format, together with subtitles in the dominant spoken languages of the corresponding countries. The entir…
Evaluation of a Sign Language Avatar on Comprehensibility, User Experience \& Acceptability
Fenya Wasserroth, Eleftherios Avramidis, Vera Czehmann +3
This paper presents an investigation into the impact of adding adjustment features to an existing sign language (SL) avatar on a Microsoft Hololens 2 device. Through a detailed ana…
The Importance of Facial Features in Vision-based Sign Language Recognition: Eyes, Mouth or Full Face?
Dinh Nam Pham, Eleftherios Avramidis
Non-manual facial features play a crucial role in sign language communication, yet their importance in automatic sign language recognition (ASLR) remains underexplored. While prior…