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DiscoSign: Discourse-Aware Text to Sign Language Gloss Translation

Apple Machine Learning Research · article · Sep 11, 2026 · UTC

Sign language processing systems have traditionally operated at the sentence level, ignoring critical discourse phenomena fundamental to sign language comprehension. We introduce DiscoSign, a computational approach for discourse-aware text to sign language gloss translation grounded in linguistic research. We address three key phenomena within our modular Large Language Model (LLM)-based translation framework: (i) spatial coreference resolution, where entities maintain consistent spatial locations throughout discourse; (ii) Question-Answer Clauses (QACs), pseudocleft structures serving…

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