Beyond BLEU: A Case for Redefining Sign Language Translation Benchmarks

arXiv:2609.03734 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-03 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-03

Updated: 2026-09-03

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Sources

• BackTranslation2.0 -- A Linguistically Motivated Metric to Assess Sign Language Production

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