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title = "{CISLR}: Corpus for {I}ndian {S}ign {L}anguage Recognition",
author = "Joshi, Abhinav and
Bhat, Ashwani and
S, Pradeep and
Gole, Priya and
Gupta, Shashwat and
Agarwal, Shreyansh and
Modi, Ashutosh",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.707",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.707",
pages = "10357--10366",
abstract = "Indian Sign Language, though used by a diverse community, still lacks well-annotated resources for developing systems that would enable sign language processing. In recent years researchers have actively worked for sign languages like American Sign Languages, however, Indian Sign language is still far from data-driven tasks like machine translation. To address this gap, in this paper, we introduce a new dataset CISLR (Corpus for Indian Sign Language Recognition) for word-level recognition in Indian Sign Language using videos. The corpus has a large vocabulary of around 4700 words covering different topics and domains. Further, we propose a baseline model for word recognition from sign language videos. To handle the low resource problem in the Indian Sign Language, the proposed model consists of a prototype-based one-shot learner that leverages resource rich American Sign Language to learn generalized features for improving predictions in Indian Sign Language. Our experiments show that gesture features learned in another sign language can help perform one-shot predictions in CISLR.",
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%T CISLR: Corpus for Indian Sign Language Recognition
%A Joshi, Abhinav
%A Bhat, Ashwani
%A S, Pradeep
%A Gole, Priya
%A Gupta, Shashwat
%A Agarwal, Shreyansh
%A Modi, Ashutosh
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%D 2022
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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%X Indian Sign Language, though used by a diverse community, still lacks well-annotated resources for developing systems that would enable sign language processing. In recent years researchers have actively worked for sign languages like American Sign Languages, however, Indian Sign language is still far from data-driven tasks like machine translation. To address this gap, in this paper, we introduce a new dataset CISLR (Corpus for Indian Sign Language Recognition) for word-level recognition in Indian Sign Language using videos. The corpus has a large vocabulary of around 4700 words covering different topics and domains. Further, we propose a baseline model for word recognition from sign language videos. To handle the low resource problem in the Indian Sign Language, the proposed model consists of a prototype-based one-shot learner that leverages resource rich American Sign Language to learn generalized features for improving predictions in Indian Sign Language. Our experiments show that gesture features learned in another sign language can help perform one-shot predictions in CISLR.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.707
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.707
%P 10357-10366
Markdown (Informal)
[CISLR: Corpus for Indian Sign Language Recognition](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.707) (Joshi et al., EMNLP 2022)
ACL
- Abhinav Joshi, Ashwani Bhat, Pradeep S, Priya Gole, Shashwat Gupta, Shreyansh Agarwal, and Ashutosh Modi. 2022. CISLR: Corpus for Indian Sign Language Recognition. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 10357–10366, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.