Sign Language Translation in a Healthcare Setting

no code implementations • TRITON 2021 • Floris Roelofsen, Lyke Esselink, Shani Mende-Gillings, Anika Smeijers

Communication between healthcare professionals and deaf patients is challenging, and the current COVID-19 pandemic makes this issue even more acute.

Lipreading Sign Language Translation +1

Online Evaluation of Text-to-sign Translation by Deaf End Users: Some Methodological Recommendations (short paper)

no code implementations • MTSummit 2021 • Floris Roelofsen, Lyke Esselink, Shani Mende-Gillings, Maartje De Meulder, Nienke Sijm, Anika Smeijers

We present a number of methodological recommendations concerning the online evaluation of avatars for text-to-sign translation, focusing on the structure, format and length of the questionnaire, as well as methods for eliciting and faithfully transcribing responses

Translation