Awards and Recognition

In this page, we list the awards and recognition that the technology behind sign.mt has received in the last few years, alongside public independent reviews.

2024

• We received an EMNLP Outstanding Demo Paper Award for our demonstration of "sign.mt: Real-Time Multilingual Sign Language Translation Application"^[1].

• Dr. Amit Moryossef (among others) received the SwissNLP Award for his "outstanding contribution to Sign Language Translation in Switzerland"^[2].

• sign.mt was independently reviewed for Kazakh-Russian Sign Language translation, reporting accuracy of 37% compared to 98% for human translation^[3].

• Using our technology (code, models, and app), a team from India won^[4] the Smart India Hackathon.

2023

• Dr. Amit Moryossef (among others) received the ACL Outstanding Paper Award for "Considerations for Meaningful Sign Language Machine Translation"^[5].

2021

• Dr. Amit Moryossef (among others) received the ACL Best Theme Paper Award for "Including Signed Languages in Natural Language Processing"^[6].

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1. sign.mt. 2024. Twitter Post. ↩︎

2. SwissNLP. 2024. SwissNLP Award. ↩︎

3. Imashev et al. 2024. Comparative Analysis of Sign Language Interpreting Agents Perception: A Study of the Deaf. ↩︎

4. Prasad et al. 2024. LinkedIn Post. ↩︎

5. Müller et al. 2023. Considerations for Meaningful Sign Language Machine Translation. ↩︎

6. Yin et al. 2021. Including Signed Languages in Natural Language Processing. ↩︎