ISLTranslate: Dataset for Translating Indian Sign Language
Abhinav Joshi, Susmit Agrawal, Ashutosh Modi · 2023
Sign languages are the primary means of communication for many hard-of-hearing people worldwide.Recently, to bridge the communication gap between the hard-of-hearing community and the rest of the population, several sign language translation datasets have been proposed to enable the development of statistical sign language translation systems.However, there is a dearth of sign language resources for the Indian sign language.This resource paper introduces ISLTranslate, a translation dataset for continuous Indian Sign Language (ISL) consisting of 31k ISL-English sentence/phrase pairs.To the best of our knowledge, it is the largest translation dataset for continuous Indian Sign Language.We provide a detailed analysis of the dataset.To validate the performance of existing end-to-end Sign language to spoken language translation systems, we benchmark the created dataset with a transformer-based model for ISL translation.