2024/11/08 by Kayo Yin, Yin, Kayo, Chinmay Singh +13 · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Wikis in Education and Collaboration
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2411.05783
openalex publication_date 2024/11/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students face significant barriers in accessing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, notably due to the scarcity of STEM resources in signed languages. To help address this, we introduce ASL STEM Wiki: a parallel corpus of 254 Wikipedia articles on STEM topics in English, interpreted into over 300 hours of American Sign Language (ASL). ASL STEM Wiki is the first continuous signing dataset focused on STEM, facilitating the development of AI resources for STEM education in ASL. We identify several use cases of ASL STEM Wiki with human-centered applications. For example, because this dataset highlights the frequent use of fingerspelling for technical concepts, which inhibits DHH students' ability to learn, we develop models to identify fingerspelled words -- which can later be used to query for appropriate ASL signs to suggest to interpreters.