DEADLINE EXTENDED : Call for Papers: WSLP 2025 – Workshop on Sign Language Processing 4

[Keren Artiaga]

DEADLINE EXTENDED: OCT OBER 28, 2025

🚨 Call for Papers: WSLP 2025 – Workshop on Sign Language Processing 🚨

We are excited to announce the Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP 2025), co-located with IJCNLP–AACL 2025, to be held at Victor Menezes Convention Centre, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India on December 24th, 2025. 🌏

This one-day event will provide a dedicated forum to present and discuss advances in sign language processing and translation, with a focus on low-resource and underrepresented sign languages. Alongside paper presentations, WSLP 2025 will feature shared tasks and invited talks by leading researchers.

🔑 Important Links

• 📌 Workshop Website: https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP

• 📄 CFP & Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/WSLP

• 📝 ARR Commitment: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2025/Workshop/WSLP_ARR_Commitment

• 📚 Shared Tasks: https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP/task/

• 💬 Discord (Workshop): https://discord.gg/jP7j4NmUE4

• 💬 Discord (Shared Task): https://discord.gg/su2rRxSjkY
  
  

🗓️ Key Dates (AoE)

• Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): October 28, 2025

• ARR Commitment Deadline: Oct 27, 2025

• Notification of Acceptance: Nov 3, 2025

• Camera-Ready Papers Due: Nov 11, 2025

• Workshop: Dec 24, 2025

🔍 Topics of Interest (But not limited to)

• Low-resource & underrepresented sign languages

• Continuous & gloss-free SLT

• Multilingual, cross-modal & zero-shot SLT

• Cultural & dialectal variation in sign Language

• Corpus creation, fairness, ethics & real-world applications
  

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Shared Tasks at WSLP 2025

• Indian Sign Language to English Translation

• Isolated Sign (Gloss) Recognition

• Word Presence Prediction in Sign Videos

📢 We strongly encourage submissions that focus on underrepresented sign languages and communities.