2nd International Workshop on
Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages

The second edition of the AT4SSL aims to be a venue for presenting and discussing (complete, ongoing or future) research on automatic translation between sign and spoken languages and bring together researchers, practitioners, interpreters and innovators working in related fields.

The AT4SSL workshop aims to open a (guided) discussion between participants about current challenges, innovations and future developments related to the automatic translation between sign and spoken languages. To this extent, AT4SSL will host a moderated round table around the following three topics: (i) quality of recognition and synthesis models and user-expectations; (ii) co-creation - deaf, hearing and hard-of-hearing people joining forces towards a common goal and (iii) sign-to-spoken and spoken-to-sign translation technology in media. 

THEME

Data is one of the key factors for the success of today’s AI, including language and translation models for sign and spoken languages. However, when it comes to SL, MT and Natural Language Processing, we face problems related to small volumes of (parallel) data, low veracity in terms of origin of annotations (deaf or hearing interpreters), non-standardized annotations (e.g. glosses differ across corpora), video quality or recording setting, and others. 

The theme of this edition of the workshop is Sign language parallel data – challenges, solutions and resolutions.

TOPICS

This workshop aims to focus on the following topics. However, submissions related to the general topic of automatic translation between signed and spoken languages that deviate from these topics are also welcome:

• Data: resources, collection and curation, challenges, processing, data life cycle

• Use-cases, applications 

• Ethics, privacy and policies

• Sign language linguistics

• Machine translation (with a focus on signed-to-signed, signed-to-spoken or spoken-to-signed language translation)

• Natural language processing

• Interpreting of sign and spoken languages

• Image and video recognition (for the purpose of sign language recognition)

• 3D avatar and virtual signers synthesis

• Usability and challenges of current methods and methodologies

• Sign language in the media

IMPORTANT DATES:

• First call for papers: 13-March-2023

• Second call for papers: 31-March-2023

• Submission deadline: 14-April-2023 24 April 2023 (Extended!)

• Review process: between 17-April-2023 and 05-May-2023

• Acceptance notification: 12-May-2023

• Camera ready submission: 28-May-2023

• Submission of material for interpreters: 06-June-2023

• Programme will be finalised by: 01-June-2023

• Workshop date: 15-June-2023

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE:

• Dimitar Shterionov (TiU)

• Mirella De Sisto (TiU)

• Mathias Muller (UZH)

• Davy Van Landuyt (EUD)

• Rehana Omardeen (EUD)

• Shaun O’Boyle (DCU)

• Annelies Braffort (Paris-Saclay University)

• Floris Roelofsen (UvA)

• Frédéric Blain (TiU)

• Bram Vanroy (KU Leuven; UGent)

• Eleftherios Avramidis (DFKI)

This edition is co-organised by the SignON and EASIER projects!

INTERPRETING:

Interpreting between English and International Sign will be provided.

FOR CONTACTS:

Dimitar Shterionov, workshop chair: d.shterionov@tilburguniversity.edu

REGISTRATION:

Registration will be handled by the EAMT conference. (To be announced)