Active Learning for Multilingual Fingerspelling Corpora. Wang, S. & Nalisnick, E. In Adaptive Experimental Design and Active Learning in the Real World, 2022.
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We apply active learning to help with data scarcity problems in sign languages. In particular, we perform a novel analysis of the effect of pre-training. Since many sign languages are linguistic descendants of French sign language, they share hand configurations, which pre-training can hopefully exploit. We test this hypothesis on American, Chinese, German, and Irish fingerspelling corpora. We do observe a benefit from pre-training, but this may be due to visual rather than linguistic similarities.

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