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ArticleFrontiers in artificial intelligence2026

Automatic transformation of Kazakh text into sign language glosses using multilingual transformer-based models.

Nurzada Amangeldy, Aigerim Yerimbetova, Nazira Tursynova, Nazerke Gazizova, Nazgul Dospol, Arif Orymbetov

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Nurzada AmangeldyInstitute of Information and Computational Technologies of the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Aigerim YerimbetovaInstitute of Information and Computational Technologies of the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Nazira TursynovaFaculty of Information Technologies, L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan.
Nazerke GazizovaInstitute of Information and Computational Technologies of the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Nazgul DospolFaculty of Information Technologies, L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan.
Arif OrymbetovSignBridge LLP, Astana, Kazakhstan.

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This study investigates the automatic transformation of Kazakh text into sign language glosses (Text-to-Gloss) using multilingual transformer-based models with emphasis on preserving morphological structure in a low-resource agglutinative language framework. Given the scarcity of high-quality intermediate representations for Kazakh Sign Language, a methodology for corpus formation was developed, resulting in a specialized dataset of 11 190 unique text-gloss pairs sourced from educational materials. To assess the effectiveness of transfer learning under low-resource constraints, we fine-tuned mT5-small and mT5-base models on this dataset. Experimental results indicate that the mT5-base architecture consistently outperforms the smaller variant across all metrics, achieving a 2.61-point improvement in BLEU (87.51 → 90.12) and a 2.47-point increase in ROUGE-1 F1 (89.61% → 92.08%), alongside gains in exact match (74.96% → 80.68%) and chrF (91.6 → 94.1). Statistical significance testing (

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gloss annotationKazakh sign languagelow-resource languagemT5multilingual transformersign language processingtext-to-gloss translation

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