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Bangla Sign Language Translation: Dataset Creation Challenges, Benchmarking and Prospects

arXiv 2511.21533 ↗First posted 26 Nov 2025cs.CL cs.CVcited by 1

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Abstract (arXiv)

Bangla Sign Language Translation (BdSLT) has been severely constrained so far as the language itself is very low resource. Standard sentence level dataset creation for BdSLT is of immense importance for developing AI based assistive tools for deaf and hard of hearing people of Bangla speaking community. In this paper, we present a dataset, IsharaKhobor , and two subset of it for enabling research. We also present the challenges towards developing the dataset and present some way forward by benchmarking with landmark based raw and RQE embedding. We do some ablation on vocabulary restriction and canonicalization of the same within the dataset, which resulted in two more datasets, IsharaKhobor_small and IsharaKhobor_canonical_small. The dataset is publicly available at: www.kaggle.com/datasets/hasanssl/isharakhobor [1].

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 13 Oct 2026). Builds on 14 of its 19 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 26 Nov 2025.

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  1. 2020Sign Language Transformers: Joint End-to-end Sign Language Recognition and Translationcited by 256
  2. 2021Improving Sign Language Translation with Monolingual Data by Sign Back-Translationcited by 179
  3. 2020How2Sign: A Large-scale Multimodal Dataset for Continuous American Sign Languagecited by 173
  4. 2021BanglaBERT: Language Model Pretraining and Benchmarks for Low-Resource Language Understanding Evaluation in Banglacited by 123
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  10. 2024BdSLW60: A Word-Level Bangla Sign Language Datasetcited by 6
  11. 2025BdSLW401: Transformer-Based Word-Level Bangla Sign Language Recognition Using Relative Quantization Encoding (RQE)cited by 4
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  1. 2025Introducing A Bangla Sentence - Gloss Pair Dataset for Bangla Sign Language Translation and Researchcited by 1
  2. 2025IsharaKotha: A Comprehensive Avatar-based Bangla Sign Language Corpuscited by 1

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  1. 2026Sign-Language Datasets at Scale: A Comprehensive Survey on Resources, Benchmarks, and Annotation Standardscited by 0