2023/07/11 by Abhinav Joshi, Joshi, Abhinav, Susmit Agrawal +3
Computer Science · Psychology · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Hand Gesture Recognition Systems #Hearing Impairment and Communication #Human Pose and Action Recognition #Machine Learning (cs.LG)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2307.05440
openalex publication_date 2023/07/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Sign languages are the primary means of communication for many hard-of-hearing people worldwide. Recently, to bridge the communication gap between the hard-of-hearing community and the rest of the population, several sign language translation datasets have been proposed to enable the development of statistical sign language translation systems. However, there is a dearth of sign language resources for the Indian sign language. This resource paper introduces ISLTranslate, a translation dataset for continuous Indian Sign Language (ISL) consisting of 31k ISL-English sentence/phrase pairs. To the best of our knowledge, it is the largest translation dataset for continuous Indian Sign Language. We provide a detailed analysis of the dataset. To validate the performance of existing end-to-end Sign language to spoken language translation systems, we benchmark the created dataset with a transformer-based model for ISL translation.