Workshop programme
This is a one-day workshop.
Workshop date: 20 August 2021
This workshop is going to be conducted online.
The AT4SSL2021 will be conducted within the MTSummit2021. The conference will be taking place on the online conference platform “Cvent” (also at (web.cvent.com/event/edc9b9ba-7dc5-4526-a06f-1d2cc96a5939).
This conference platform is closely integrated with Zoom, and in fact from the presenters standpoint the conference will have the look and feel of Zoom.
Registration and attendance:
Attendees have to register for the conference via web.cvent.com/event/edc9b9ba-7dc5-4526-a06f-1d2cc96a5939
Recordings
All events at the MT Summit will be recorded. We have been assured by Cvent that the recording happens automatically, so there should be nothing that you need to do for this.
Interpreting
The workshop will be interpreted in International Sign/English.
Programme:
All times are in ET. Please adjust this programme to your local timezone using: https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter
09:00 Start of workshop
09:00 - 09:10 Opening notes
09:10 - 09:55 Key-note
* Prof Lorraine Leeson (key-note)
* Title: TBA
09:55 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 11:00 Presentations (Session 1 - Long papers 1)
* Data Augmentation for Sign Language Gloss Translation (long paper) by Amit Moryossef, Kayo Yin, Graham Neubig and Yoav Goldberg
* Approaching Sign Language Gloss Translation as a Low-Resource Machine Translation Task (long paper) by Xuan Zhang and Kevin Duh.
* Frozen Pretrained Transformers for Neural Sign Language Translation (long paper) by Mathieu De Coster, Karel D’Oosterlinck, Marija Pizurica, Paloma Rabaey, Severine Verlinden, Mieke Van Herreweghe and Joni Dambre
11:00 - 11:05 COffee break
11:05 - 12:05 Presentations (Session 2 - Long papers 2)
* "Automatic generation of a 3D sign language avatar on AR glasses given 2D videos of human signers" (long paper) by Lan Thao Nguyen, Florian Schicktanz, Aeneas Stankowski and Eleftherios Avramidis
* "Sign and Search: Sign Search Functionality for Sign Language Lexica" (long paper) by Manolis Fragkiadakis and Peter van der Putten -- which presents different methods for search and retrieval of signs from sign language lexica using OpenPose keypoints.
* "Using Computer Vision to Analyze Non-manual Marking of Questions in KRSL" (long paper) by Anna Kuznetsova, Alfarabi Imashev, Medet Mukushev, Anara Sandygulova and Vadim Kimmelman -- which a manual and an automatic analysis of non-manual markings in Kazakh-Russian Sign Language (KRSL) as presented in yes/no and wh- questions. The automated analysis uses an approach based on OpenPose.
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 13:45 Presentations (Session 3 - Short papers)
* "Online Evaluation of Text-to-sign Translation by Deaf End Users: Some Methodological Recommendations" (short paper) by 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" (short paper) by Mirella De Sisto, Dimitar Shterionov, Irene Murtagh, Myriam Vermeerbergen and Lorraine Leeson -- the only linguistically oriented paper which discusses challenges related to mapping signs into meaning units that can allow the processing of sign language with established NLP and MT tools and techniques.
* "AVASAG: A German Sign Language Translation System for Public Services" (short paper) by 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 Coffee break
13:50 - 14:30 Presentations (Session 4 - Long papers 3)
* "The Myth of Signing Avatars" (long paper) by 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" (long paper) by Maartje De Meulder
14:35 - 15:50 Panel discussion
Panelists:
* Mr Mark Wheatley, Executive Director of EUD, Belgium
* Prof Christian Rathmann, Professor in Deaf Studies Interpreting at Humboldt Univer-sity, 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 Uni-versity of Surrey, the UK.
15:50 - 16:00 Closing remarks