Workshop programme

This is a one-day workshop. 

Workshop date: 15 June 2023

Interpreting

The workshop will be interpreted in International Sign/English.

Programme:

All times are in EEST (Finnish time).

09:00 Start of the workshop

09:00 – 09:15 Opening notes

09:15 – 10:30 Keynote presentations

• Keynote 1: Challenges with Sign Language Datasets

Vincent Vandeghinste (INT)

• Keynote 2: JWSign: A Highly Multilingual Corpus of

Bible Translations for Sign Language Processing

Mathias Müller (UZH)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Presentation Session 1

• Analyzing the Potential of Linguistic Features for Sign Spotting: A Look at Approximative Features

Natalie Hollain, Martha Larson and Floris Roelofsen.

• A Linked Data Approach for linking and aligning Sign Language and Spoken Language Data,

Thierry Declerck, Sam Bigeard, Fahad Khan, Irene

Murtagh, Sussi Olsen, Mike Rosner, Ineke Schuurman,

Andon Tchechmedjiev and Andy Way

• An Open-Source Gloss-Based Baseline for Spoken to Signed Language Translation

Amit Moryossef, Mathias Müller, Anne Göhring, Zifan Jiang, 

Yoav Goldberg and Sarah Ebling

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 15:00 Round table The gap between MT for spoken and MT

for signed languages: data and technology challenges

Moderator: Mathias Müller (UZH)

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00 Presentation Session 2

• A New English-Dutch-NGT Corpus for the Hospitality Domain,

Mirella De Sisto, Vincent Vandeghinste and Dimitar

Shterionov

• BSL-Hansard: A parallel, multimodal corpus of English and interpreted 

British Sign Language data from parliamentary proceedings,

Euan McGill and Horacio Saggion.

• Towards Accommodating Gerunds within the Sign Language Lexicon, 

Zaid Mohammed and Irene Murtagh.

17:00 – 17:15 Closing remarks

17:15 End of the workshop