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###### Solving Real Needs {-}

Many efforts in SLP have developed intrusive methods (e.g., requiring signers to wear special gloves), which are often rejected by signing communities and therefore have limited real-world value.
Such efforts are often marketed to perform "sign language translation" when they, in fact, only identify fingerspelling or recognize a minimal set of isolated signs at best. These approaches oversimplify the rich grammar of signed languages, promote the misconception that signs are solely expressed through the hands, and are considered by the Deaf community as a manifestation of audism, where it is the signers who must make the extra effort to wear additional sensors to be understood by non-signers [@erard2017sign]. To avoid such mistakes, we encourage close Deaf involvement throughout the research process to ensure that we direct our efforts toward applications that will be adopted by signers and do not make false assumptions about signed languages or the needs of signing communities.
Such efforts are often marketed to perform "sign language translation" when they, in fact, only identify fingerspelling or recognize a minimal set of isolated signs at best. These approaches oversimplify the rich grammar of signed languages, promote the misconception that signs are solely expressed through the hands, and are considered by the Deaf community as a manifestation of audism, where it is the signers who must make the extra effort to wear additional sensors to be understood by non-signers [@erard2017sign]. Reviewing a decade of deep-learning sign language papers, @kim-etal-2024-shedding similarly argue that linguistically important phenomena such as role-shifting, depicting signs, topicalization, rhythm, and pragmatics remain underexplored, leaving a disconnect between research outputs and the actual sign language used by signers. To avoid such mistakes, we encourage close Deaf involvement throughout the research process to ensure that we direct our efforts toward applications that will be adopted by signers and do not make false assumptions about signed languages or the needs of signing communities.

###### Building Collaboration {-}
Deaf collaborations and leadership are essential for developing signed language technologies to ensure they address the community's needs and will be adopted, not relying on misconceptions or inaccuracies about signed language [@harris2009research;@kusters2017innovations].
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author = "Malaia, Evie and
Borneman, Joshua and
Gurbuz, Sevgi",
}

@inproceedings{kim-etal-2024-shedding,
title = "Shedding Light on the Underexplored: Tackling the Minor Sign Language Research Topics",
author = "Kim, Jung-Ho and
Ko, Changyong and
Huerta-Enochian, Mathew and
Ko, Seung Yong",
editor = "Efthimiou, Eleni and
Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and
Hanke, Thomas and
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url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.signlang-1.23/",
pages = "213--218"
}

url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.signlang-1.16/",
pages = "147--158"
}
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