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New Signer, Old Sentence: What Sign-Language Translation Benchmarks Are Actually Testing

TL;DR for operators A held-out test set does not necessarily tell you how a sign-language translation system will behave with a new user. In Rethinking Sign Language Translation: The Impact of Signer Dependence on Model Evaluation, Artiaga and colleagues re-evaluate three gloss-free systems after excluding the test signer from training and development.1 ...

September 24, 2026 · 7 min · Zelina