Paper ID: 2309.12443

Active Learning for Multilingual Fingerspelling Corpora

Shuai Wang, Eric Nalisnick

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

Submitted: Sep 21, 2023