We’re waving hands! Creating a graphic novel in Quebec Sign Language
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Véro Leduc has spent many years involved in different social causes such as queer, sex worker and feminist movements, promoting their voices on public places. When she arrived in the Deaf community, she wanted to produce a graphic novel so that Deaf folks could wave hands to hearing people, to get their attention and consideration. Realizing Quebec Sign Language is an embodied language for which there is no systematic writing, she spent a couple insomniac nights trying to figure out how to write this language. If writing—an act through which language is inscribed on a medium—is capable of communicating, reflecting upon, debating, citing, remembering, and translating knowledge, what kind of writing is needed for signed knowledge to exist? This chapter relates her journey of creating a graphic novel in Quebec Sign Language and her reflections on the agency digital media are offering for Deaf and signed epistemologies.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it