[Sw-l] Machine translation evaluation help

Amit Moryossef amitmoryossef at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jan 31 17:47:54 UTC 2022


Thanks Val, this is very helpful!

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 6:26 PM Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>
wrote:

> SignWriting List
> January 28, 2022
>
> Amit,
> Can you try the same work based on the Goldilocks videos in the
> SignWriting video transcription library?
>
> SW Video Transcription Library
> https://www.signwriting.org/library/transcription
>
> If you click on Goldilocks in ASL, this link starts a series of video
> transcriptions based on small video clips in SignPuddle.
>
> Goldilocks in ASL small video clips in SignPuddle
> https://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/canvas.php?ui=1&sgn=5&sid=374
>
> The Bible is very complex and the writers are not all trained. So the
> Goldilocks video clips might be more accurate or at least be a valuable
> addition besides the work you're doing with the Bible.
>
> Just a thought - hope it is possible. Thanks for all you are doing -
>
> Val ;-)
>
> ----------
>
> > On Jan 28, 2022, at 9:07 AM, Valerie Sutton <
> 0000001342802f5f-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU> wrote:
> >
> > SignWriting List
> > January 28, 2022
> >
> > Hello SignWriting List and Amit!
> >
> > Thank you for this amazing work. I visited the site https://sign.mt and
> it is so much fun. I typed in the English word hello and the animated
> figure to the right fingerspelled it!
> >
> > By the way, I started creating FSW text files for fingerspelling but I
> haven't finished yet. I will send you a file when I have it. And I also got
> the snow white videos back up online in our YouTube channel. I hope this
> kind of work is useful to you.
> >
> > Now your request…
> >
> > Reading the written ASL that is to the right of the blue line in the
> diagram attached… the English gloss would be, from my perspective WITHOUT
> reading the SW on the left:
> >
> > Verse
> > 41
> > . (period, end of thought)
> >
> > His (person on the right)
> > hand
> > he (person on the right)
> > gives
> > her (person on the left)
> > hand
> > . (period, end of thought)
> >
> > Then
> > he (person on the right)
> > helped up (assisted)
> > not sure of this sign with the W in front of the face -
> > comma (pause)
> >
> > All
> > believers
> > he
> > warned
> > colon
> >
> > He (person on the right)
> > put
> > there (on the right)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Jan 28, 2022, at 8:39 AM, Amit Moryossef <amitmoryossef at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >> Over the past few months, Zifan Jiang from the university of Zurich has
> been working on automatic machine translation between spoken languages
> supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Volk, Dr Mathias Muller, and myself.
> >>
> >> We will include this system in https://sign.mt in the coming weeks, so
> all could play with it.
> >>
> >> It is by no means perfect. However, it is a first step to introduce
> this as a natural language processing task.
> >>
> >> Zifan wants to include a graphic comparing generated SW from a bible
> verse in ASL. While we see some similarities between the GOLD sentence on
> the left, and the PREDICTED sentence on the right, we don't know what the
> sentence on the right means.
> >>
> >> Could anyone who knows ASL and can read SW perhaps try to translate the
> sentence on the right back to English?
> >>
> >> <image.png>
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance! More updates to follow soon
> >>
> >> Amit
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> >
> > Val ;-)
> >
> >
> > Valerie Sutton
> > sutton at signwriting.org
> >
> >
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