{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/towards-kurdish-text-to-sign-translation","title":"Towards Kurdish Text to Sign Translation","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2020-05-01","proceeding":"LREC 2020 5","authors":["Zina Kamal","Hossein Hassani"],"abstract":"The resources and technologies for Sign language processing of resourceful languages are emerging, while the low-resource languages are falling behind. Kurdish is a multi-dialect language, and it is considered a low-resource language. It is spoken by approximately 30 million people in several countries, which denotes that it has a large community with hearing-impairments as well. This paper reports on a project which aims to develop the necessary data and tools to process the Sign language for Sorani as one of the spoken Kurdish dialects. We present the results of developing a dataset in HamNoSys and its corresponding SiGML form for the Kurdish Sign lexicon. We use this dataset to implement a sign-supported Kurdish tool to check the accuracy of the Sign lexicon. We tested the tool by presenting it to hearing-impaired individuals. The experiment showed that 100{\\%} of the translated letters were understandable by a hearing-impaired person. The percentages were 65{\\%} for isolated words, and approximately 30{\\%} for the words in sentences. The data is publicly available at \\url{https://github.com/KurdishBLARK/KurdishSignLanguage} for non-commercial use under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence","url_abs":"https://aclanthology.org/2020.signlang-1.19","url_pdf":"https://aclanthology.org/2020.signlang-1.19.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"towards-kurdish-text-to-sign-translation","repo_url":"https://github.com/KurdishBLARK/KurdishSignLanguage","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"translation","task_name":"Translation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}