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Studies on Sign Language Retrieval in Low-Resource Dictionary Settings
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers trained a pose encoder on American Sign Language and tested it on six other sign languages without retraining, achieving 36-81% retrieval accuracy with minimal video examples.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building sign language tools for under-resourced languages where annotated data and large corpora do not exist.
- Watch out
- Performance drops significantly on larger dictionaries; the approach works best with one to four video examples per sign, limiting real-world applicability.
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- eval
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