AT4SSL2021 @MTSummit

You can find the website of the previous edition, together with the proceedings here.

SUMMARY:

The first edition of the AT4SSL workshop received 15 submissions (including long and short papers). Eight long papers, presenting completed work, and three short papers, presenting ongoing work were accepted to be presented at the workshop.

• Three long papers present work on translation of sign language (gloss or video) into text,exploiting existing and proposing new techniques based on low-resource MT approaches.

• Two position papers discuss specific pitfalls, challenges and ethical considerations in the development of sign language technologies with a more in-depth focus on 3D avatars.

• One long paper and one short paper present work on synthesis of sign language, i.e. text-to-sign and 3D avatar synthesis on AR glasses.

• Two long and two short papers address other miscellaneous topics.

• This first edition of the AT4SSL hosts one invited talk and a panel discussion. The key-note speaker was Prof Lorraine Leeson (TCD, Dublin, Ireland)

A panel featured seven prominent experts in the fields of machine translation, machine learning, engineering, sign language linguistics and computational linguistics, data collection and processing (for the purposes of sign language research) and avatar and 3D technologies. The panel members were: 

• Dr Mark Wheatley, (EUD, Belgium)

• Prof Gorka Labaka (UPV/EHU, Spain)

• Prof Christian Rathmann, (Humboldt University, Germany)

• Dr Sarah Ebling, (University of Zurich and the University of Applied Sciences of Special Needs Education Zurich (HfH), Switzerland)

• Prof Myriam Vermeerbergen, (KU Leuven, Belgium)

• Mr Thomas Hanke (University of Hamburg, Germany)

• Prof Richard Bowden, (University of Surrey, the UK)