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

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21533v1
• Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:00:38 GMT
• Title: Bangla Sign Language Translation: Dataset Creation Challenges, Benchmarking and Prospects
• Authors: Husne Ara Rubaiyeat, Hasan Mahmud, Md Kamrul Hasan,
• Abstract summary: Bangla Sign Language Translation (BdSLT) has been severely constrained so far as the language itself is very low resource.<n>Standard sentence level dataset creation for BdSLT is of immense importance for developing AI based assistive tools for deaf and hard of hearing people.
• Score: 2.4482532609799543
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: 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].

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