Defining meaningful units. Challenges in sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping (short paper)

no code implementations • MTSummit 2021 • Mirella De Sisto, Dimitar Shterionov, Irene Murtagh, Myriam Vermeerbergen, Lorraine Leeson

This paper addresses the tasks of sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping in the context of sign language (SL) recognition.

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Sign Language Machine Translation and the Sign Language Lexicon: A Linguistically Informed Approach

no code implementations • AMTA 2022 • Irene Murtagh, Víctor Ubieto Nogales, Josep Blat

For the estimated 72 million deaf people in the world, the exclusion of sign languages from modern natural language processing and machine translation technology, aggravates further the communication barrier that already exists for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals.

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