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Not What a Child Expressed: Auditing the Sign-to-Text Safety Interface in Child-Facing AI
Oct 5, 2026Muhammad Rafiullah Memon, Viet Vo, Wanlun Ma +1Sign Language Translation AI Safety Evaluation
School of Science, Computing and Emerging Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
Machine Translation for Sign Languages
Oct 1, 2026Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Anton Pelykh, Edward Fish +7Sign Language Translation Sign Language Recognition
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, GU2 7XH.
Simultaneous Translation between Sign Languages
Sep 28, 2026Zetian Wu, Bowen Xie, Stefan Lee +1Sign Language Translation
Oregon State University
SignFLIP: A Unified Model for Sign Language Translation and Generation via Stage-wise Alignment at Scale
Sep 28, 2026Zhaoyi An, Sihan Tan, Youngbae Hwang +2Sign Language Translation Representation Alignment
Institute of Science Tokyo · Chungbuk National University
Investigating Temporal Motion Features for Pose-to-Text Indian Sign Language Translation
Sep 14, 2026Manav Dhamecha, Praveen Kumar Chandaliya, Pruthwik MishraSign Language Translation Transformer
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India
Rethinking Sign Language Translation: The Impact of Signer Dependence on Model Evaluation
Sep 7, 2026Keren Artiaga, Sabyasachi Kamila, Haithem Afli +2Sign Language Translation Sign Language Datasets
ADAPT Centre, Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland · Manipal Institute of Technology Bengaluru, MAHE, Manipal, India · Nimbus Research Centre, Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland +1
Beyond BLEU: A Case for Redefining Sign Language Translation Benchmarks
Sep 3, 2026Oline Ranum, Edward Fish, Simon Hadfield +1Sign Language Translation MT Evaluation
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey
ODE-Based Transformer Decoders for Iterative Sign Language Translation
Aug 11, 2026Tuğçe Kızıltepe, Hacer Yalim KelesSign Language Translation Iterative Refinement
ASELSAN, Ankara, Türkiye · Department of Computer Engineering, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye
Bridging the Gap Between Semantics and Reconstruction:Unifying Sign Language Translation and Production
Aug 10, 2026Xiao Liu, Shiwei Gan, Yafeng Yin +5Sign Language Translation Representation Learning
State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China · State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
SignLlama: Enhancing Gloss-free Sign Language Translation by Prioritizing Visual Features for LLMs
Aug 10, 2026Shiwei Gan, Xiao Liu, Yafeng Yin +5Sign Language Translation VLM Adaptation
University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom
Attention-Steered Vision-Language Models for Sign Language Translation
Jul 31, 2026Meibo Hu, Guohao Sun, Annemarie D. Ross +2Sign Language Translation Vision-Language Models
Rochester Institute of Technology · National Technical Institute for the Deaf / Rochester Institute of Technology · University of Virginia
DualAnchor: Preserving Language Priors and Improving Lexical Fidelity in Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation
Jul 30, 2026Hongbin Zhang, Junhao Liu, Xuefeng Bai +3Sign Language Translation Vision-Language Alignment
Institute of Computing and Intelligence, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China
Q-BridgeNet: A Quantization Network for Cross-Lingual Sign Language Translation
Jul 13, 2026Liqian Feng, Lintao Wang, Xiaochen Liu +5Sign Language Translation Cross-Lingual Transfer
The University of Sydney, Darlington NSW, Australia · Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China · Edith Cowan University, Joondalup WA, Australia
Toward Real-Time Sentence-Level Sign Language Translation
Jul 10, 2026Thanh-Hoang Nguyen DoanSign Language Translation
The University of Danang - University of Science and Technology · The University of Danang – University of Science and Technology
VTaMo: Video-Text Alignment Model for Sign Language Translation
Jul 10, 2026Junyi Hu, Zhewen He, Haomian Huang +2Sign Language Translation Cross-Modal Alignment
New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE · ChatSign Technology
ViPo-MLLM: Visual-Pose Multimodal LLM for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation
Jul 4, 2026Ahmed Abul Hasanaath, Bicheng Xu, Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain +2Sign Language Translation Multimodal Large Language Models
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, KSA · University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
BackTranslation2.0 -- A Linguistically Motivated Metric to Assess Sign Language Production
Jun 27, 2026Oliver Cory, Maksym Ivashechkin, Karahan Sahin +6Sign Language Translation Automated Evaluation
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
SIGNET: Motion-Level Knowledge Transfer for Cross-Language Sign Language Translation
Jun 26, 2026Sobhan Asasi, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Richard BowdenSign Language Translation Cross-Lingual Transfer
CVSSP, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
SignNet-1M: Large-Scale Multilingual Sign Language Video Dataset with Downstream Benchmarks
Jun 23, 2026Zhewen He, Junyi Hu, Haomian Huang +3Distribution Shift Robustness Synthetic Data Augmentation
New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE · ChatSign Technology · Tsinghua University, China
Deep Learning-Based Sign Language Recognition from Videos and Cross-Lingual Translation to Indian Vernaculars
Jun 21, 2026Ramesh Nandipalli, Chandranath AdakSign Language Translation Sign Language Recognition
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar, India
SignVLA: Real-Time Sign Language-Guided Robotic Manipulation via Attention LSTM and Vision-Language-Action Models
Jun 18, 2026Ningwei Bai, Xinyu Tan, Harry Gardner +6Sign Language Translation Language-Conditioned Robot Manipulation
Department of Computer Science, University College London.
Corpus Augmentation for Sign Language Translation via LLM-Guided Video Stitching
Jun 10, 2026Zsolt Robotka, Ádám Rák, Jalal Al-Afandi +2Synthetic Data Augmentation Sign Language Translation
Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Budapest, Hungary · DeepSign Technologies Ltd., Budapest, Hungary
SLU-2K: A Question-Based Benchmark for Semantic Evaluation of Sign Language Translation
Jun 2, 2026Zeno Testa, Antonino Furnari, Lorenzo Baraldi +1Sign Language Translation Video QA
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Modena, Italy · University of Catania Catania, Italy · University of Granada, CITIC & DaSCI Institute, Spain
Conditional Collapse in Sign Language Production: A Diagnostic and a Scaling Argument
Jun 1, 2026Rui Hong, Jana KošeckáSign Language Translation Human Motion Generation
George Mason University
Target-Side Paraphrase Augmentation for Sign Language Translation with Large Language Models
May 29, 2026Pedro Dal Bianco, Jean Paul Nunes Reinhold, Oscar Stanchi +3Sign Language Translation Data Augmentation
III-LIDI Universidad Nacional de La Plata · CDTEC Federal University of Pelotas · III-LIDI CONICET +2
Direct Translation between Sign Languages
May 20, 2026Zetian Wu, Bowen Xie, Wuyang Meng +3Sign Language Translation Machine Translation
Oregon State University
Towards Continuous Sign Language Conversation from Isolated Signs
May 14, 2026Youngmin Kim, Kyobin Choo, Jiwoo Park +4Sign Language Translation Human Motion Generation
1Yonsei University · 2LG Electronics · 3Emory University
Sign Language Recognition and Translation for Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Pathways Forward
May 12, 2026Nigar Alishzade, Gulchin AbdullayevaSign Language Translation Sign Language Recognition
Engineering Faculty of Karabakh University, Khankendi, Azerbaijan · MSERA Institute of Mathematics, Baku, Azerbaijan
Towards Compact Sign Language Translation: Frame Rate and Model Size Trade-offs
May 10, 2026Kuanwei Chen, Mengfeng TsaiSign Language Translation Small Language Models
Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Zhongli, Taiwan
Low Resource Multimodal Translation of Nepali Spoken Words into Emotion-Conditioned Sign Language Avatars
May 4, 2026Jatin Bhusal, Salma TamangSign Language Translation Sign Language Generation
Center for Human Mobility and Communications, Prateek Innovations, Kathmandu, Nepal · Sunway International Business School, Birmingham City University, Kathmandu, Nepal

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Not What a Child Expressed: Auditing the Sign-to-Text Safety Interface in Child-Facing AI

Muhammad Rafiullah Memon, Viet Vo, Wanlun Ma, Yang Xiang

School of Science, Computing and Emerging Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

Sign Language Translation AI Safety Evaluation AI Safety

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Automatic sign language translation (SLT) has entered consumer products, turning American Sign Language into English text for dictation, messaging, and queries put to a conversational assistant. Child-facing AI and platform trust-and-safety tooling decide on text, using filters on minor accounts and grooming classifiers that score chat messages. A signing child who uses SLT therefore reaches these safeguards through a translation. We found no publicly documented system in which the two have been jointly evaluated, and the leading deployed SLT model was neither trained nor formally evaluated on signers under 18. Errors that alter negation, participant roles, secrecy, urgency or help-seeking could change a safety decision without disturbing fluency. This paper proposes a Deaf-informed pre-deployment audit of that boundary, with a failure taxonomy, a sanitised scenario schema, four comparison conditions, and four outcome measures. Auslan is the planned first case study.

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