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.
🔑 Important Links 🌐 Workshop Website: https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/ 📄 Submission Portal (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/WSLP
🏆 Shared Tasks: https://exploration-lab.github.io/WSLP-2026/task/ 💬 Workshop Discord: https://discord.gg/x6tHXEFyW7 💬 Shared Task Discord: https://discord.gg/ty7dqTHC2v
🗓️ 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
🔍 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
🏆 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.