SignBank+: Multilingual Sign Language Translation Dataset
This work advances the field of sign language machine translation by focusing
on dataset quality and simplification of the translation system. We introduce
SignBank+, a clean version of the SignBank dataset, optimized for machine
translation. Contrary to previous works that employ complex factorization
techniques for translation, we advocate for a simplified text-to-text
translation approach. Our evaluation shows that models trained on SignBank+
surpass those on the original dataset, establishing a new benchmark and
providing an open resource for future research.