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WMT-SLT
December 7, 2022 – December 8, 2022
1ST WMT SHARED TASK ON SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION
December 7-8, 2022 | Abu Dhabi
The 1st Shared Task on SL Translation is organized as part of WMT 2022. Its organization is coordinated by the University of Zurich, Switzerland with collaborators from the EASIER EU project (grant agreement no. 101016982), the Innosuisse Flagship IICT (grant agreement no. PFFS-21-47), the SignON EU project (grant agreement no. 101017255), and other partners. More about the organizers: https://www.wmt-slt.com/organizers
The task is concerned with automatic translation between signed and spoken languages. The task is novel in the sense that it requires processing visual information (such as video frames or human pose estimation) beyond the well-known paradigm of text-to-text machine translation. Training data for one language pair: Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS) and German (DE) will be provided. Translation from DSGS to German is the primary translation direction: submitted systems are ranked on a leaderboard and baseline systems will be provided. Systems translating from German to DSGS are not ranked on the leaderboard while the task is running, but we still encourage participants to submit such systems. We aim to provide human evaluation for all submitted systems, regardless of the translation direction. We will ask participants to submit a system description paper to WMT 2022.
Task description in IS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rEY7C7JllI
More information at: https://www.wmt-slt.com