Sign Language Translation: Ongoing Development, Challenges and Innovations in the SignON Project

Dimitar Shterionov, Mirella De Sisto, Vincent Vandeghinste, Aoife Brady, Mathieu De Coster, Lorraine Leeson, Josep Blat, Frankie Picron, Marcello Paolo Scipioni, Aditya Parikh, Louis ten Bosh, John O’Flaherty, Joni Dambre, Jorn Rijckaert


Abstract
The SignON project (www.signon-project.eu) focuses on the research and development of a Sign Language (SL) translation mobile application and an open communications framework. SignON rectifies the lack of technology and services for the automatic translation between signed and spoken languages, through an inclusive, humancentric solution which facilitates communication between deaf, hard of hearing (DHH) and hearing individuals. We present an overview of the current status of the project, describing the milestones reached to date and the approaches that are being developed to address the challenges and peculiarities of Sign Language Machine Translation (SLMT).
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2022.eamt-1.52
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Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
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June
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2022
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Ghent, Belgium
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Helena Moniz, Lieve Macken, Andrew Rufener, Loïc Barrault, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Christophe Declercq, Maarit Koponen, Ellie Kemp, Spyridon Pilos, Mikel L. Forcada, Carolina Scarton, Joachim Van den Bogaert, Joke Daems, Arda Tezcan, Bram Vanroy, Margot Fonteyne
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Dimitar Shterionov, Mirella De Sisto, Vincent Vandeghinste, Aoife Brady, Mathieu De Coster, Lorraine Leeson, Josep Blat, Frankie Picron, Marcello Paolo Scipioni, Aditya Parikh, Louis ten Bosh, John O’Flaherty, Joni Dambre, and Jorn Rijckaert. 2022. Sign Language Translation: Ongoing Development, Challenges and Innovations in the SignON Project. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, pages 325–326, Ghent, Belgium. European Association for Machine Translation.
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