CFP: 2nd Workshop on Sign Language Processing@EMNLP 2026, Budapest, Hungary
Mohammed Hasanuzzaman
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite submissions to the 2nd Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP 2026), to be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, on October 29, 2026.
Following the successful first edition, WSLP 2026 brings together researchers and practitioners working on technologies for sign language processing and translation, with a particular focus on low-resource and underrepresented sign languages.
While datasets such as PHOENIX14T and CSL-Daily have driven significant progress in Sign Language Translation (SLT), many sign languages remain underrepresented due to limited annotated resources. WSLP 2026 aims to support and showcase research across all sign languages, fostering inclusive, multilingual, and culturally aware SLT technologies.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Sign Language Translation for low-resource and underrepresented languages
- Continuous and gloss-free SLT methods
- Multilingual, cross-modal, and zero-shot SLT
- Knowledge transfer across sign languages or modalities
- Cultural and dialectal variation in sign language modeling
- Context-aware sign translation models
- Sign language corpus creation and annotation practices
- Fairness, bias, and ethical considerations in SLT
- Applications supporting Deaf communities in low-resource settings
Submission Details
Submissions are managed through the OpenReview. We welcome:
- Long papers (up to 8 pages + references)
- Short papers (up to 4 pages + references)
All submissions must follow the ACL 2026 formatting guidelines and use the ACL template. Papers should be submitted via OpenReview. Submissions are peer-reviewed under double-blind conditions. Accepted papers will be published in the official EMNLP 2026 proceedings in the ACL Anthology.
Submission Types
- Long papers (up to 8 pages + references)
- Short papers (up to 4 pages + references)
- Non-archival extended abstracts (up to 2 pages + references)
Important Dates
- Paper Submission Deadline: August 20, 2026
- Notification of Acceptance: August 30, 2026
- Camera-Ready Papers Due: September 10, 2026
- Workshop Date: October 29, 2026
Shared Tasks
- Indian Sign Language to English Translation
- Isolated Sign (Gloss) Recognition
- Word Presence Prediction in Sign Language Videos
Workshop website:
https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/
Call for Papers:
https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/call/
Shared Tasks:
https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/task/
We particularly encourage submissions from researchers working on underrepresented sign languages and communities.
We look forward to your submissions and participation.
Best regards,
WSLP 2026 Organizing Committee
| Dr. Mohammed Hasanuzzaman Lecturer/Assistant Professor Munster Technological University, Ireland | |
| Funded Investigator, ADAPT Centre- A World-Leading SFI Research Centre Chercheur Associé, GREYC UMR CNRS 6072 Research Centre, France Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Nature Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, ACM TALLIP, PLOS One, Computer Speech and Language Website: https://mohammedhasanuzzaman.github.io/ | |
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