PaSCo1: A Parallel Video-SiGML Swiss French Sign Language Corpus in Medical Domain

Bastien David, Pierrette Bouillon, Jonathan Mutal, Irene Strasly, Johanna Gerlach, Hervé Spechbach


Abstract
This article introduces the parallel sign language translation corpus, PaSCo1, developed as part of the BabelDr project, an automatic speech translation system for medical triage. PaSCo1 aims to make a set of medical data available in Swiss French Sign Language (LSF-CH) in the form of both videos signed by a human and their description in G-SiGML mark-up language. We describe the beginnings of the corpus as part of the BabelDr project, as well as the methodology used to create the videos and generate the G-SiGML language using the SiGLA platform. The resulting FAIR corpus comprises 2 031 medical questions and instructions in the form of videos and G-SiGML code.
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2025.at4ssl-1.4
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Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL)
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June
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2025
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Geneva, Switzerland
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Dimitar Shterionov, Mirella De Sisto, Bram Vanroy, Vincent Vandeghinste, Victoria Nyst, Myriam Vermeerbergen, Floris Roelofsen, Lisa Lepp, Irene Strasly
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AT4SSL
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European Association for Machine Translation
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37–43
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Bastien David, Pierrette Bouillon, Jonathan Mutal, Irene Strasly, Johanna Gerlach, and Hervé Spechbach. 2025. PaSCo1: A Parallel Video-SiGML Swiss French Sign Language Corpus in Medical Domain. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL), pages 37–43, Geneva, Switzerland. European Association for Machine Translation.
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