Across cultures, people literally point to the future in different directions. Our hands reveal how language, writing, and ...

The Russian language is losing its expressiveness due to the abundance of parasitic words, jargonisms and borrowings, which are increasingly being used inappropriately and automatically. This was ...

Request access for CSL-Daily from the authors of "Improving Sign Language Translation with Monolingual Data by Sign Back-Translation" (Zhou et al.) and add it to folder named csldaily. Create the tsv ...

It's among the top 10 words on the 50th annual "Banished Words List" that Lake Superior State University released this week.

Abstract: Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) seeks to interpret the gestures used by people who are hard of hearing-mute individuals and translate them into natural language, thereby ...

Mark Wallace, the owner of the Rex Bar in Belfast’s Shankill Road, knows just two phrases in Irish. The first is “Shankill” – ...

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Leeron is a New York-based writer who specializes in covering technology for small and mid-sized businesses. Her work has been featured in publications including Bankrate, Quartz, the Village Voice, ...

SignAvatars is the first large-scale 3D sign language holistic motion dataset with mesh annotations, which comprises 8.34M precise 3D whole-body SMPL-X annotations, covering 70K motion sequences. The ...

Abstract: Communication is crucial in our day-to-day lives. It is the basis for all human interactions. It is how people pass on information to other people and receive information from them. A person ...

We’re on a quest to track down the origins of phrases here at Mental Floss. And when an origin perfectly explains some strange figure of speech, it feels extremely satisfying. For example, “pushing ...