🚨 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_AR...

📚 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.