Question 1

What is CLERC?

Accepted Answer

CLERC builds the missing sign language data infrastructure for multimodal AI. We provide native ASL video corpus, expert-annotated datasets, and tiered licensing for foundation model labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind.

Question 2

Why does AI need sign language data?

Accepted Answer

Text and vision are solved modalities in AI, but sign language remains the missing dimension in multimodal foundation models. Sign language is a complex 3D grammatical system requiring specialized high-fidelity data covering spatial placement, non-manual markers, and occlusion handling.

Question 3

What is Deaf Digital Heritage?

Accepted Answer

Deaf Digital Heritage (DDH) is CLERC's mission to digitize, preserve, and protect the linguistic wealth of sign languages worldwide. This heritage is sourced exclusively from the Deaf community and structurally protected to ensure it remains in community hands while powering the next generation of AI.

SIGN LANGUAGE.
NATIVE TO AI.

Text is solved. Vision is solved. Sign language is the missing dimension in multimodal foundation models.

Institutional Education

Native Infrastructure

Machine Cognition

Structured Data

Technical Architecture

Intelligence

Signs Recognized

Dataset Downloads

Unknown-Signer Accuracy

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SIGN LANGUAGE.NATIVE TO AI.