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20172021
most citedEvaluating the Usability of Automatically Generated Captions for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

56 citations · 75 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2021

Unpacking the Interdependent Systems of Discrimination: Ableist Bias in NLP Systems through an Intersectional Lens

Saad Hassan, Matt Huenerfauth, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm

Much of the world's population experiences some form of disability during their lifetime. Caution must be exercised while designing natural language processing (NLP) systems to pre…

cs.CV2020

Recognizing American Sign Language Nonmanual Signal Grammar Errors in Continuous Videos

Elahe Vahdani, Longlong Jing, Yingli Tian +1

As part of the development of an educational tool that can help students achieve fluency in American Sign Language (ASL) through independent and interactive practice with immediate…

cs.HC2019

Artificial Intelligence Fairness in the Context of Accessibility Research on Intelligent Systems for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Sushant Kafle, Abraham Glasser, Sedeeq Al-khazraji +3

We discuss issues of Artificial Intelligence (AI) fairness for people with disabilities, with examples drawn from our research on human-computer interaction (HCI) for AI-based syst…

cs.CV2019

Sign Language Recognition, Generation, and Translation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Danielle Bragg, Oscar Koller, Mary Bellard +9

Developing successful sign language recognition, generation, and translation systems requires expertise in a wide range of fields, including computer vision, computer graphics, nat…

cs.CV201919 cited

Recognizing American Sign Language Manual Signs from RGB-D Videos

Longlong Jing, Elahe Vahdani, Matt Huenerfauth +1

In this paper, we propose a 3D Convolutional Neural Network (3DCNN) based multi-stream framework to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) manual signs (consisting of movements of…

cs.CL2019

Modeling Acoustic-Prosodic Cues for Word Importance Prediction in Spoken Dialogues

Sushant Kafle, Cecilia O. Alm, Matt Huenerfauth

Prosodic cues in conversational speech aid listeners in discerning a message. We investigate whether acoustic cues in spoken dialogue can be used to identify the importance of indi…