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Not What a Child Expressed: Auditing the Sign-to-Text Safety Interface in Child-Facing AI

Muhammad Rafiullah Memon, Viet Vo, Wanlun Ma, Yang Xiang

Published

Oct 5, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

15% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Oct 5, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

Background context only.

What to verify

Read the full paper before copying any benchmark, metric, or protocol choices.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Weak or implicit
Validate from full paper
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

Automatic sign language translation (SLT) has entered consumer products, turning American Sign Language into English text for dictation, messaging, and queries put to a conversational assistant. Child-facing AI and platform trust-and-safety tooling decide on text, using filters on minor accounts and grooming classifiers that score chat messages. A signing child who uses SLT therefore reaches these safeguards through a translation. We found no publicly documented system in which the two have been jointly evaluated, and the leading deployed SLT model was neither trained nor formally evaluated on signers under 18. Errors that alter negation, participant roles, secrecy, urgency or help-seeking could change a safety decision without disturbing fluency. This paper proposes a Deaf-informed pre-deployment audit of that boundary, with a failure taxonomy, a sanitised scenario schema, four comparison conditions, and four outcome measures. Auslan is the planned first case study.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Automatic sign language translation (SLT) has entered consumer products, turning American Sign Language into English text for dictation, messaging, and queries put to a conversational assistant."

Evaluation Modes

missing

None explicit

Validate eval design from full paper text.

"Automatic sign language translation (SLT) has entered consumer products, turning American Sign Language into English text for dictation, messaging, and queries put to a conversational assistant."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Automatic sign language translation (SLT) has entered consumer products, turning American Sign Language into English text for dictation, messaging, and queries put to a conversational assistant."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Automatic sign language translation (SLT) has entered consumer products, turning American Sign Language into English text for dictation, messaging, and queries put to a conversational assistant."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"Automatic sign language translation (SLT) has entered consumer products, turning American Sign Language into English text for dictation, messaging, and queries put to a conversational assistant."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
Multilingual
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
None
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Automatic sign language translation (SLT) has entered consumer products, turning American Sign Language into English text for dictation, messaging, and queries put to a conversational assistant.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Automatic sign language translation (SLT) has entered consumer products, turning American Sign Language into English text for dictation, messaging, and queries put to a conversational assistant.
  • Child-facing AI and platform trust-and-safety tooling decide on text, using filters on minor accounts and grooming classifiers that score chat messages.
  • A signing child who uses SLT therefore reaches these safeguards through a translation.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • Child-facing AI and platform trust-and-safety tooling decide on text, using filters on minor accounts and grooming classifiers that score chat messages.
  • Errors that alter negation, participant roles, secrecy, urgency or help-seeking could change a safety decision without disturbing fluency.

Why it matters for eval

  • Child-facing AI and platform trust-and-safety tooling decide on text, using filters on minor accounts and grooming classifiers that score chat messages.
  • Errors that alter negation, participant roles, secrecy, urgency or help-seeking could change a safety decision without disturbing fluency.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    No clear evaluation mode extracted.

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.