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IsharaBART: An efficient BART-Based Framework for Low-Resource Bangla Sign Language Translation
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Millions of Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) users lack reliable automatic translation tools. Existing systems are limited by data scarcity, unidirectional design, and computationally expensive architectures that are not suitable for low-resource deployment. We introduce IsharaBART, a bidirectional generative framework for gloss-sentence translation in BdSL. IsharaBART uses Bidirectional and Auto-Regressive Transformers (BART)-based conditional language modeling with denoising learning objectives. We developed a parallel dataset of 1,000 professionally annotated gloss-sentence pairs, balanced across tenses and structures. We expanded the dataset to 4,831 pairs through four augmentation techniques: rule-based tense transformations, masked token substitutions, back-translation, and one-shot prompting. A compact denoising sequence-to-sequence model was pre-trained from scratch on monolingual Bangla text from six different corpora, then fine-tuned on the annotated and augmented datasets. We compare IsharaBART against four larger baseline models under identical conditions, where it achieves comparable or superior bidirectional performance. On the gloss-to-sentence (G2S) task, it attains Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU-4) score up to 51.7, and on the sentence-to-gloss (S2G) task, it achieves 61.40, outperforming multilingual models despite having fewer than 10% of the parameters. Ablation studies demonstrate that pre-training provides 62.5-90.4% faster convergence and 11.5-118% higher BLEU-4 than scratch. Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) reduces trainable parameters by 99.3%, but with 28.0-52.2% loss of BLEU-4 compared to full-parameter fine-tuning.
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IsharaBART: An efficient BART-Based Framework for Low-Resource Bangla Sign Language Translation
Millions of Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) users lack reliable automatic translation tools. Existing systems are limited by data scarcity, unidirectional design, and computationally expensive architectures that are not suitable for low-resource deployment. We introduce IsharaBART, a bidirectional generative framework for gloss-sentence translation in BdSL. IsharaBART uses Bidirectional and Auto-Regressive Transformers (BART)-based conditional language modeling with denoising learning objectives. We developed a parallel dataset of 1,000 professionally annotated gloss-sentence pairs, balanced across tenses and structures. We expanded the dataset to 4,831 pairs through four augmentation techniques: rule-based tense transformations, masked token substitutions, back-translation, and one-shot prompting. A compact denoising sequence-to-sequence model was pre-trained from scratch on monolingual Bangla text from six different corpora, then fine-tuned on the annotated and augmented datasets. We compare IsharaBART against four larger baseline models under identical conditions, where it achieves comparable or superior bidirectional performance. On the gloss-to-sentence (G2S) task, it attains Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU-4) score up to 51.7, and on the sentence-to-gloss (S2G) task, it achieves 61.40, outperforming multilingual models despite having fewer than 10% of the parameters. Ablation studies demonstrate that pre-training provides 62.5-90.4% faster convergence and 11.5-118% higher BLEU-4 than scratch. Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) reduces trainable parameters by 99.3%, but with 28.0-52.2% loss of BLEU-4 compared to full-parameter fine-tuning.
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