Below is an abridged version of the second call for the sign translation task.
Second Call for Participation: WMT Shared Task on Sign Language Translation (WMT-SLT)
We are excited to announce the first edition of the Shared Task on Sign Language Translation (WMT-SLT) at WMT 2022, co-located with EMNLP 2022.
*SECOND CALL IN INTERNATIONAL SIGN*
https://youtu.be/9MWLsVXIGVg*NEW DEVELOPMENTS SINCE THE FIRST CALL*
(1) Release of training data and development data
Please see
https://www.wmt-slt.com/data for more information.
(2) Release of baseline code
We now provide code to train baseline systems in a public Github repository. The codebase contains scripts to preprocess data, train, translate and evaluate models.
Please see
https://www.wmt-slt.com/tools for more information.
*OVERVIEW*
This shared 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.
We provide training data for one language pair: Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS) and German (DE).
Translation from DSGS to German is our primary translation direction: submitted systems are ranked on a leaderboard and we will provide baseline systems. 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.
*IMPORTANT DATES*
* 12 June 2022: Release of training data
* 12 June 2022: Release of baseline systems
* 14 July 2022: Release of test data
* 28 July 2022: System submission deadline
* 4 August 2022: System paper abstract submission deadline
* 7 September 2022: Paper submission deadline
* 9 October 2022: Paper acceptance notification
* 16 October 2022: Camera-ready version due
* 7-8 December 2022: Overview of results at WMT
All deadlines are AoE (Anywhere on Earth). Dates are in line with general deadlines of WMT.
*MORE INFORMATION*
For more information, please visit our website:
www.wmt-slt.com If you have any comments and/or questions, do not hesitate to ask a question on the mailing list:
wmt-...@googlegroups.com or contact us:
mmue...@cl.uzh.ch.