Papers by Kadir Gökgöz
The Visual Iconicity Challenge: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Sign Language Form–Meaning Mapping (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a visual Iconicity test is used to evaluate vision–language models based on visual form and iconicity ratings. |
| Approach: | They propose a video-based benchmark to evaluate vision–language models on three tasks . they assess 17 state-of-the-art VLMs in zero- and few-shot settings on Sign Language of the Netherlands . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark evaluates 17 state-of-the-art VLMs on Sign Language of the Netherlands . they achieve moderate to strong alignment with human iconicity ratings, but fail to infer lexical meaning from visual form alone . |