AI RESEARCH

Target-Side Paraphrase Augmentation for Sign Language Translation with Large Language Models

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2605.31393v1 Announce Type: cross Sign language translation (SLT) remains constrained by limited paired sign-video/text corpora and heavy-tailed target vocabularies. We study target-side augmentation in which GPT-4o generates controlled paraphrase variants of reference sentences while the sign input remains unchanged. A Signformer-style pose-based Transformer is trained under a two-stage schedule: pre-