Systemic Biases in Sign Language AI Research: A Deaf-Led Call to Reevaluate Research Agendas

arXiv:2403.02563v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Growing research in sign language recognition, generation, and translation AI has been accompanied by calls for ethical development of such technologies. While these works are crucial to helping individual researchers do better, there is a notable lack of discussion of systemic biases or analysis of rhetoric that shape the research questions and methods in the field, especially as it remains dominated by hearing non-signing researchers. Therefore, we conduct a systematic review of 101 recent papers …

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