Aashaka Desai — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Investigating Dictionary Expansion for Video-based Sign Language Dictionaries

Aashaka Desai, Daniela Massiceti, Richard Ladner, Hal Daum{\'e} III, Danielle Bragg, Alex Xijie Lu

EMNLP 2025

Like most languages, sign languages evolve over time. It is important that sign language dictionaries’ vocabularies are updated over time to reflect these changes, such as by adding new signs. However, most dictionary retrieval methods based upon machine learning models only work with fixed vocabula

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2023

ASL Citizen: A Community-Sourced Dataset for Advancing Isolated Sign Language Recognition

Aashaka Desai, Lauren Berger, Fyodor O Minakov, Vanessa Milan, Chinmay Singh, Kriston L Pumphrey +5

NeurIPS 2023poster

Sign languages are used as a primary language by approximately 70 million D/deaf people world-wide. However, most communication technologies operate in spoken and written languages, creating inequities in access. To help tackle this problem, we release ASL Citizen, the first crowdsourced Isolated Si…

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