Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor 2026-10 Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary text conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 wslp-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.0/ Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP-2026) Sanjeet Singh author Abhinav Joshi author Pokala Dattatreya author Keren Artiaga author Khushi Jaydeep Pujara author Tomáš Železný author Ivan Gruber author Jakub Honzík author Sabyasachi Kamila author Facundo Manuel Quiroga author Marek Hrúz author Mohammed Hasanuzzaman author Ashutosh Modi author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 singh-etal-2026-second https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.1/ 2026-10 1 10 Findings of the Shared Tasks at the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing (WSLP 2026) Sanjeet Singh author Abhinav Joshi author Pokala Dattatreya author Keren Artiaga author Khushi Jaydeep Pujara author Tomáš Železný author Ivan Gruber author Jakub Honzík author Sabyasachi Kamila author Facundo Manuel Quiroga author Marek Hrúz author Mohammed Hasanuzzaman author Ashutosh Modi author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 singh-etal-2026-findings https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.2/ 2026-10 11 17 ISLiM: A Compact End-to-End Sign Language Translation Framework Shoaib Ahmed author Dipti Mishra author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 ahmed-mishra-2026-islim https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.3/ 2026-10 18 31 Whitening and Fine-Tuning Are Substitutes: One-Shot Indian Sign Language Recognition Galiveeti Poornima author Sandeep Mathias author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 poornima-mathias-2026-whitening https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.4/ 2026-10 32 42 What Actually Transfers? Diagnosing Output-Projection Initialization in Low-Resource Sign Language Translation Kai-Yang Peng author Chunki Lim author Shu-Kai Hsieh author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 peng-etal-2026-actually https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.5/ 2026-10 43 53 LSC-CARE: An annotated dataset for medical Catalan Sign Language Carlos Escolano author Joan Gomà Cortés author Gemma Barberà author Gerard Sant author Maite Melero author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 escolano-etal-2026-lsc https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.6/ 2026-10 54 69 Metric-Learning Retrieval for Cross-Signer Isolated Sign Language Recognition Md. Asif Ali author Md. Mosharaf Hossain Apurbo author Kazi Reyazul Hasan author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 ali-etal-2026-metric https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.7/ 2026-10 70 76 Multiple-Instance Contrastive Alignment for Pose-Based Sign Spotting Md. Mosharaf Hossain Apurbo author Md. Asif Ali author Kazi Reyazul Hasan author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 apurbo-etal-2026-multiple https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.8/ 2026-10 77 83 Isolated Sign Language Recognition for Icelandic Sign Language: Experiments in a Low-resource Setting Finnur Ágúst Ingimundarson author Gu\dhný Björk \THorvaldsdóttir author Mathias Müller author Sarah Ebling author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 ingimundarson-etal-2026-isolated https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.9/ 2026-10 84 95 Using Sign Phonology to Improve Few-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning for Sign Language Recognition Matteo Lanza author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 lanza-2026-using https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.10/ 2026-10 96 110 Recognizing Uruguayan Sign Language Glosses in Continuous Discourse: A Curated Dataset and First Baselines Manu Bervejillo Rosá author Facundo Techera author Emilio Valle Lisboa author Ariel E Stassi author Luis Chiruzzo author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 rosa-etal-2026-recognizing https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.11/ 2026-10 111 120 Coverage Is Not Enough: A Controlled Study of Annotation Selection for Low-Resource Sign Language Gyanendra Shrestha author Liting Zhang author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 shrestha-zhang-2026-coverage https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.12/ 2026-10 121 131 Shared-Encoder Contrastive Grounding for Pose-Based Indian Sign Language Translation Gyanendra Shrestha author Liting Zhang author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 shrestha-zhang-2026-shared https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.13/ 2026-10 132 140 CARE: A Coverage-Aware Retrieval Ensemble for Isolated Sign Language Recognition Nguyen Tu Nam author Hiroki Takahashi author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 nam-takahashi-2026-care https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.14/ 2026-10 141 146 Bukva: Russian Sign Language Alphabet Petr Surovtsev author Alexander Nagaev author Karina Kvanchiani author Elizaveta Petrova author Alexander Kapitanov author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 surovtsev-etal-2026-bukva https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.15/ 2026-10 147 161 Cross-Lingual Transfer of Self-Supervised Representations for Sign Language Translation: A Case Study for Turkish Sign Language Özge Can Özel author Saliha Nur Şahin author Murat Saraclar author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 ozel-etal-2026-cross https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.16/ 2026-10 162 171 SpaMo-BdSL: Gloss-Free Bangla Sign Language Translation Using Spatial Configurations and Motion Dynamics with LLMs Kowshik Saha author Adibah Mahmud author M Saifur Rahman author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 saha-etal-2026-spamo https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.17/ 2026-10 172 176 Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Recognition of Sign Language Handshapes Marcel Granero Moya author Carolina Del Corral Farrarós author Gloria Haro author Coloma Ballester author Ricardo Marques author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 granero-moya-etal-2026-zero https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.18/ 2026-10 177 192 HandReader: Advanced Techniques for Efficient Fingerspelling Recognition Pavel Korotaev author Petr Surovtsev author Alexander Kapitanov author Karina Kvanchiani author Alexander Nagaev author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 korotaev-etal-2026-handreader https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.19/ 2026-10 193 202 Znaki: A Russian Fingerspelling Recognition Dataset Petr Surovtsev author Pavel Korotaev author Alexander Nagaev author Alexander Kapitanov author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 surovtsev-etal-2026-znaki https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.20/ 2026-10 203 212 TransAlign-SLT: Complementary Temporal and Semantic Supervision for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation Pallapu Mohan Krishna author Uppala Sanjay Kumar author M K Bhuyan author Debanga Raj Neog author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics 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Pruthwik Mishra author Praveen Kumar Chandaliya author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 samanvitha-etal-2026-signafusion https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.23/ 2026-10 237 242 Testing Video MLLM Sensitivity to Hand-Localized Visual Detail in Chinese Sign Recognition: A Matched Visual Intervention Study Bowen Ye author Dengfeng Yao author Siyuan Jing author Peng Jin author Hongzhe Liu author Cheng Xu author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Sign Language Processing Sanjeet Singh editor Abhinav Joshi editor Pokala Dattatreya editor Keren Artiaga editor Khushi Jaydeep Pujara editor Tomáš Železný editor Ivan Gruber editor Jakub Honzík editor Sabyasachi Kamila editor Facundo Manuel Quiroga editor Marek Hrúz editor Mohammed Hasanuzzaman editor Ashutosh Modi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-488-0 ye-etal-2026-testing https://aclanthology.org/2026.wslp-1.24/ 2026-10 243 248