{"_id":"77h2fBMMXXhEDEPcW","bibbaseid":"wang-nalisnick-activelearningformultilingualfingerspellingcorpora-2022","author_short":["Wang, S.","Nalisnick, E."],"bibdata":{"bibtype":"inproceedings","type":"inproceedings","title":"Active Learning for Multilingual Fingerspelling Corpora","author":[{"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Wang"],"firstnames":["Shuai"],"suffixes":[]},{"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Nalisnick"],"firstnames":["Eric"],"suffixes":[]}],"booktitle":"Adaptive Experimental Design and Active Learning in the Real World","year":"2022","url":"https://www.signlab-amsterdam.nl/publications/Active_Learning_for_Multilingual_Fingerspelling_Corpora.pdf","abstract":"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.","bibtex":"@inproceedings{wang:22,\n title = {Active Learning for Multilingual Fingerspelling Corpora},\n author = {Wang, Shuai and Nalisnick, Eric},\n booktitle = {Adaptive Experimental Design and Active Learning in the Real World},\n year = {2022},\n url = {https://www.signlab-amsterdam.nl/publications/Active_Learning_for_Multilingual_Fingerspelling_Corpora.pdf},\n abstract = {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.}\n}\n\n","author_short":["Wang, S.","Nalisnick, E."],"key":"wang:22","id":"wang:22","bibbaseid":"wang-nalisnick-activelearningformultilingualfingerspellingcorpora-2022","role":"author","urls":{"Paper":"https://www.signlab-amsterdam.nl/publications/Active_Learning_for_Multilingual_Fingerspelling_Corpora.pdf"},"metadata":{"authorlinks":{}},"downloads":3},"bibtype":"inproceedings","biburl":"www.signlab-amsterdam.nl/bib/signlab.bib","dataSources":["R8Za3BGYPnYDXtHHL"],"keywords":[],"search_terms":["active","learning","multilingual","fingerspelling","corpora","wang","nalisnick"],"title":"Active Learning for Multilingual Fingerspelling Corpora","year":2022,"downloads":3}