AT4SSL 2021
First International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Sign and Spoken Languages
Location
- Online
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Schedule
| 9:00 | Opening notes |
| 9:10 | Constructing a Road Map for Sign Language Machine Translation**_ **Keynote** Prof Lorraine Leeson |
| 9:55 | 🕑 |
| 10:00 | Presentations Session 1 - Long papers 1 |
| Data Augmentation for Sign Language Gloss Translation Amit Moryossef, Kayo Yin, Graham Neubig and Yoav Goldberg | |
| Approaching Sign Language Gloss Translation as a Low-Resource Machine Translation Task Xuan Zhang and Kevin Duh | |
| Frozen Pretrained Transformers for Neural Sign Language Translation Mathieu De Coster, Karel D’Oosterlinck, Marija Pizurica, Paloma Rabaey, Severine Verlinden, Mieke Van Herreweghe and Joni Dambre | |
| 11:00 | ☕️ |
| 11:05 | Presentations Session 2 - Long papers 2 |
| Automatic generation of a 3D sign language avatar on AR glasses given 2D videos of human signers Lan Thao Nguyen, Florian Schicktanz, Aeneas Stankowski and Eleftherios Avramidis | |
| Sign and Search: Sign Search Functionality for Sign Language Lexica Manolis Fragkiadakis and Peter van der Putten | |
| Using Computer Vision to Analyze Non-manual Marking of Questions in KRSL Anna Kuznetsova, Alfarabi Imashev, Medet Mukushev, Anara Sandygulova and Vadim Kimmelman | |
| 12:00 | 🍴 |
| 13:00 | Presentations Session 3 - Short papers |
| Online Evaluation of Text-to-sign Translation by Deaf End Users: Some Methodological Recommendations Floris Roelofsen, Lyke Esselink, Shani Mende-Gillings, Maartje de Meulder, Nienke Sijm and Anika Smeijers | |
| Defining meaningful units. Challenges in sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping Mirella De Sisto, Dimitar Shterionov, Irene Murtagh, Myriam Vermeerbergen and Lorraine Leeson | |
| AVASAG: A German Sign Language Translation System for Public Services Fabrizio Nunnari, Judith Bauerdiek, Lucas Bernhard, Cristina España-Bonet, Corinna Jäger, Amelie Unger, Kristoffer Waldow, Sonja Wecker, Elisabeth André, Stephan Busemann, Christian Dold, Arnulph Fuhrmann, Patrick Gebhard, Yasser Hamidullah, Marcel Hauck, Yvonne Kossel, Martin Misiak, Dieter Wallach and Alexander Stricker | |
| 13:45 | ☕️ |
| 13:50 | Presentations Session 4 - Long papers 3 |
| The Myth of Signing Avatars Rosalee Wolfe, John C. McDonald, Eleni Efthimiou, Evita Fontinea, Frankie Picron, Davy Van Landuyt, Tina Sioen, Annelies Braffort, Michael Filhol, Sarah Ebling, Thomas Hanke and Verena Krausneker | |
| Is “good enough” good enough? Ethical and responsible development of sign language technologies Maartje De Meulder | |
| 14:35 | Panel discussion Panelists: - Mr Mark Wheatley, Executive Director of EUD, Belgium - Prof Christian Rathmann, Professor in Deaf Studies Interpreting at Humboldt University, Germany - Prof Gorka Labaka, Assistant professor at the Engineering School of the University ofthe Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain - Dr Sarah Ebling, Lecturer and research associate at the University of Zurich and theUniversity of Applied Sciences of Special Needs Education Zurich (HfH), Switzerland - Prof Myriam Vermeerbergen, Associate Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium - Thomas Hanke, Research Associate at the University of Hamburg, Germany - Prof Richard Bowden, Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of Surrey, the UK |
| 15:50 | Closing remarks |