Vanessa Milan — accepted AI-conference papers

2024

ASL STEM Wiki: Dataset and Benchmark for Interpreting STEM Articles

Kayo Yin, Chinmay Singh, Fyodor O Minakov, Vanessa Milan, Hal Daumé Iii, Cyril Zhang +2

EMNLP 2024main

Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students face significant barriers in accessing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, notably due to the scarcity of STEM resources in signed languages. To help address this, we introduce ASL STEM Wiki: a parallel corpus of 254 Wikipedia a…

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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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