DEADLINE EXTENDED | Third Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP 2026)

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We are pleased to announce the 2nd Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP 2026), co-located with EMNLP 2026, to be held in Budapest, Hungary, on October 29, 2026.
WSLP 2026 aims to provide a dedicated forum for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals working on sign language technologies. The workshop will showcase recent advances in sign language understanding, translation, recognition, generation, and multimodal AI, with a special emphasis on low-resource and underrepresented sign languages.


In addition to paper presentations, the workshop will feature shared tasks, invited talks, and discussions on emerging challenges and opportunities in the field.


πŸ”‘ Important Links
🌐 Workshop Website:
https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/
πŸ“„ Submission Portal (OpenReview):
https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/WSLP


πŸ† Shared Tasks:
https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/task/
πŸ’¬ Workshop Discord:
https://discord.gg/x6tHXEFyW7
πŸ’¬ Shared Task Discord:
https://discord.gg/ty7dqTHC2v


πŸ—“οΈ Key Dates (AoE)
* Paper Submission Deadline: August 24, 2026
* Notification of Acceptance: August 30, 2026
* Camera-Ready Papers Due: September 10, 2026
* Workshop Date: October 29, 2026


πŸ” Topics of Interest (Including but Not Limited To)
* Low-resource and underrepresented sign languages
* Sign Language Recognition (SLR)
* Continuous and Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT)
* Sign Language Generation and Avatars
* Multilingual, Cross-modal, and Zero-shot Learning for Sign Languages
* Large Language Models and Multimodal Models for Sign Languages
* Cultural and Dialectal Variation in Sign Languages
* Corpus Creation, Annotation, and Data Resources
* Fairness, Ethics, Accessibility, and Real-world Applications


πŸ† Shared Tasks at WSLP 2026
* Indian Sign Language to English Translation
* Isolated Sign Recognition
* Word/Sign Presence Prediction


We particularly encourage submissions that focus on underrepresented sign languages, inclusive technologies, and real-world deployment challenges.
We warmly invite the community to submit their latest research and join us in advancing sign language technologies that foster accessibility, inclusion, and communication for all.
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