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WSLP-2026
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WSLP 2026

2nd Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP-2026)

Co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary on October 24 –29, 2026

Across the world, more than 430 million people experience disabling hearing loss. For many in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) community, sign languages are the primary means of communication. These languages are not simply visual equivalents of spoken languages—they are fully developed linguistic systems with their own grammar, structure, and cultural significance. However, accessibility barriers remain widespread due to a shortage of qualified sign language interpreters and limited technological support.

Sign language translation, which involves converting rich visual-gestural input into spoken or written language, presents unique challenges. Unlike spoken languages, sign languages are inherently multi-modal, involving hand gestures, facial expressions, and body posture. These features make the translation task complex, especially in the absence of large annotated datasets and standardized benchmarks.

The Workshop on Sign Language Processing ( WSLP ) aims to address this disparity. The goal of this workshop is to explore innovative approaches and methodologies for translating sign languages, with a particular focus on low-resource settings. We invite researchers and practitioners working on diverse sign languages to come together, share their work, discuss challenges, and foster collaborations that can drive progress in this critical field.

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Accepted Papers

Workshop Main Papers

1. ISLiM: A Compact End-to-End Sign Language Translation Framework

Authors: Shoaib Ahmed, Dipti Mishra Presentation Mode: TBA

2. What Actually Transfers? Diagnosing Output-Projection Initialization in Low-Resource Sign Language Translation

Authors: Kai-Yang Peng, Chunki Lim, Shu-Kai Hsieh Presentation Mode: TBA

3. LSC-CARE: An Annotated Dataset for Medical Catalan Sign Language

Authors: Carlos Escolano, Joan Gomà Cortés, Gemma Barberà, Gerard Sant, Maite Melero Presentation Mode: TBA

4. Isolated Sign Language Recognition for Icelandic Sign Language: Experiments in a Low-Resource Setting

Authors: Finnur Ágúst Ingimundarson, Guðný Björk Þorvaldsdóttir, Mathias Müller, Sarah Ebling Presentation Mode: TBA

5. Using Sign Phonology to Improve Few-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning for Sign Language Recognition

Authors: Matteo Lanza Presentation Mode: TBA

6. Recognizing Uruguayan Sign Language Glosses in Continuous Discourse: A Curated Dataset and First Baselines

Authors: Manu Bervejillo, Facundo Techera, Emilio Valle-Lisboa, Ariel E. Stassi, Luis Chiruzzo Presentation Mode: TBA

7. Coverage Is Not Enough: A Controlled Study of Annotation Selection for Low-Resource Sign Language

Authors: Gyanendra Shrestha, Liting Zhang Presentation Mode: TBA

8. Bukva: Russian Sign Language Alphabet

Authors: Petr Surovtsev, Alexander Nagaev, Karina Kvanchiani, Elizaveta Petrova, Alexander Kapitanov Presentation Mode: TBA

9. Cross-Lingual Transfer of Self-Supervised Representations for Sign Language Translation: A Case Study for Turkish Sign Language

Authors: Özge Can Özel, Saliha Nur Şahin, Murat Saraçlar Presentation Mode: TBA

10. SpaMo-BdSL: Gloss-Free Bangla Sign Language Translation Using Spatial Configurations and Motion Dynamics with LLMs

Authors: Kowshik Saha, Adibah Mahmud, M Saifur Rahman Presentation Mode: TBA

11. Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Recognition of Sign Language Handshapes

Authors: Marcel Granero-Moya, Carolina del Corral Farrarós, Gloria Haro, Coloma Ballester, Ricardo Marques Presentation Mode: TBA

12. HandReader: Advanced Techniques for Efficient Fingerspelling Recognition

Authors: Pavel Korotaev, Petr Surovtsev, Alexander Kapitanov, Karina Kvanchiani, Alexander Nagaev Presentation Mode: TBA

13. Znaki: A Russian Fingerspelling Recognition Dataset

Authors: Petr Surovtsev, Pavel Korotaev, Alexander Nagaev, Alexander Kapitanov Presentation Mode: TBA

14. TransAlign-SLT: Complementary Temporal and Semantic Supervision for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation

Authors: Pallapu Mohan Krishna, Uppala Sanjay Kumar, M. K. Bhuyan, Debanga Raj Neog Presentation Mode: TBA

15. Articulator-Level Cross-Lingual Transfer in Sign Language Translation

Authors: Ali Elaswad, Omar Mokhtar Gaber Saqr Presentation Mode: TBA

16. Testing Video MLLM Sensitivity to Hand-Localized Visual Detail in Chinese Sign Recognition: A Matched Visual Intervention Study

Authors: Bowen Ye, Dengfeng Yao, Siyuan Jing, Peng Jin, Hongzhe Liu, Cheng Xu Presentation Mode: TBA

Shared Task Papers

1. Whitening and Fine-Tuning Are Substitutes: One-Shot Indian Sign Language Recognition

Authors: Galiveeti Poornima, Sandeep Mathias Presentation Mode: TBA

2. Metric-Learning Retrieval for Cross-Signer Isolated Sign Language Recognition

Authors: Md. Asif Ali, Md. Mosharaf Hossain Apurbo, Kazi Reyazul Hasan Presentation Mode: TBA

3. Multiple-Instance Contrastive Alignment for Pose-Based Sign Spotting

Authors: Md. Mosharaf Hossain Apurbo, Md. Asif Ali, Kazi Reyazul Hasan Presentation Mode: TBA

4. Shared-Encoder Contrastive Grounding for Pose-Based Indian Sign Language Translation

Authors: Gyanendra Shrestha, Liting Zhang Presentation Mode: TBA

5. CARE: A Coverage-Aware Retrieval Ensemble for Isolated Sign Language Recognition

Authors: Tu Nam Nguyen, Hiroki Takahashi Presentation Mode: TBA

6. SignaFusion@WSLP 2026: Gated Vision—Language Adjudication and Multi-Expert Fusion for Isolated Sign Language Recognition

Authors: Bolisetty Samanvitha, Ojas Srivastava, Pruthwik Mishra, Praveen Kumar Chandaliya Presentation Mode: TBA

🗓️ Important Dates

📝 Workshop Papers

🧪 Shared Task Key Dates

All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“Anywhere on Earth”).

Note: The workshop will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person and virtual participation. Accepted papers will be presented as posters or oral presentations, as determined by the program committee.

Program

Program under construction, stay tuned!

FAQ

Can't find your answer? Send an email and we will get back to you.

  • Yes, dual submissions are allowed if the other venue also allows dual submissions. If your submission is accepted to the archival track of WSLP, you will have to withdraw your submission to the other venue. Dual submissions to WSLP and EMNLP (including ARR) are not allowed.


Invited Speakers

We will announce invited speakers shortly, stay tuned!



Organizers

You can reach the organizers by e-mail to isign.benchmark@gmail.com.

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Ashutosh Modi

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India

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Mohammed Hasanuzzaman

ADAPT Centre, MTU, Ireland

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Marek Hrúz

University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic

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Facundo Manuel Quiroga

Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina

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Sabyasachi Kamila

Manipal Institute of Technology Bengaluru, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

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Abhinav Joshi

Ph.D. Student, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India

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Sanjeet Singh

Ph.D. Student, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India

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Keren Artiaga

ADAPT Centre, MTU, Cork, Ireland

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Pokala Dattatreya

Masters Student, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India

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Khushi Jaydeep Pujara

Masters Student, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India

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Ivan Gruber

Senior Researcher, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic

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Tomáš Železný

University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic

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Jakub Honzík

University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic