37.504, Confs: 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages at LREC 2026 (Spain)

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Date: 03-Feb-2026
From: Marc Schulder [marc.schulder at uni-hamburg.de]
Subject: 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages at LREC 2026


12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages
at LREC 2026
Short Title: sign-lang at LREC 2026
Theme: Language in Motion

Date: 16-May-2026 - 16-May-2026
Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Contact: sign-lang at LREC Organising Committee
Contact Email: lrec2026 at dgskorpus.de
Meeting URL: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2026/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language
Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Sign Language

Submission Deadline: 14-Feb-2026

Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/signlang2026/
Submissions are invited for a full day workshop on sign language
resources and technologies, to take place on 16 May 2026 as a
satellite event of LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. As in the
previous four years, the workshop will be a hybrid event.
During the past years, a number of large-scale sign language corpus
projects have started. Some have already been completed, but many more
projects are about to start. At the same time, sign language
technologies are maturing and are promising to support the
time-consuming basic annotation. The workshop aims at bringing
together those researchers who already work with multimodal sign
language corpora (and those who see the need for empirical
underpinnings of their current research) with those who develop sign
language technologies. It provides the platform to compare competing
approaches.
As sign language resource technologies build to a large extent on
methodologies and tools used in the language resource community in
general, but add very specific perspectives (e.g. no writing system
established, use of video as data source) and works with a different
modality of human language, sign language research is able to feed
back to the language resource community at large. At the same time, as
the raw data are in the visual domain, the field naturally bridges
into Computer Vision. Thus, researchers use Machine Learning methods
on both visual and linguistic data.
We invite submissions of papers to be presented either on stage (20
minutes plus 10 minutes discussion), as posters (with or without
demonstrations) or remotely (poster PDF plus text chat) on the
following topics:
2026 Special Topic: Language in Motion
Motion is at the core of sign languages, both literally, through their
existence in the visual-gestural modality, and figuratively, in how
their communities drive language change. Equally, sign language
research must stay in motion, adapting to new insights and
technological possibilities, advancing how we create and use
resources, evolving the capabilities of tools, and pushing the
boundaries of what can be expected from the field, both
technologically and ethically. We especially invite contributions
relating to the representation and processing of sign languages that
address these various facets of language in motion, but also welcome
papers on other general issues relating to sign language resources and
technologies.
General Issues on Sign Language Corpora and Tools
 - Evaluation of sign language resources
 - Experiences in building sign language corpora
 - Elicitation methodology appropriate for corpus collection
 - Proposals for standards for linguistic annotation or for metadata
descriptions
 - Experiences from linguistic research using corpora
 - Use of (parallel) corpora and lexicons in translation studies and
machine translation
 - Avatar technology as a tool in sign language corpora and corpus
data feeding into advances in avatar technology
 - Language documentation and long-term accessibility for sign
language data
 - Annotation and visualization tools
 - Linking corpora and lexicons and integrated presentation of corpus
and dictionary contents
 - “Internet as a corpus” for sign languages
 - Sign language corpus mining
 - Crowd and community sourcing for corpus work
 - Multi-lingual sign language resources and connecting sign language
resources to language resources for spoken languages
 - Language change and how it relates to resource creation,
corpus-driven linguistic research, and language technologies
We are pleased to confirm that the workshop will be a hybrid event.
Similar to the 2022 and 2024 workshops, all participants will be given
access to an online text chat before and during the event to allow
remote participants to present their work as well as for discussion of
all workshop contributions. On-stage presentations will be live
streamed (including International Sign/English interpretation) with
opportunity for questions from remote and on-site participants. The
live poster sessions will be held on-site only, but posters will be
made available online for discussion via text chat.
In the tradition of LREC, oral/signed presentations, poster
presentations (with or without demonstrations) and remote
presentations have equal status, and authors are encouraged to suggest
the presentation format best suited to communicate their ideas. Papers
(4–8 pages) of all accepted submissions to this workshop will be
published as workshop proceedings published on the conference website
– independent of whether you have a poster, remote or oral/signed
presentation. The workshop does not differentiate between long, short,
or position papers.
Please submit your paper through the LREC START system
(https://softconf.com/lrec2026/signlang2026/) not later than 14
February 2026 (any time zone), indicating whether you prefer an
oral/signed presentation, a poster presentation, a poster presentation
with demo, or a remote poster. Unlike the main conference, the
workshop will be reviewed single-blind, so submissions SHOULD NOT BE
ANONYMOUS. In all other respects, submissions should follow the LREC
2026 style guide (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/).
ATTENTION: Please note that you are expected to submit the full paper,
not an extended abstract as in previous years!
Important Dates:
 - Deadline for submissions: 14 February 2026 (11:59PM UTC-12:00
“anywhere on Earth”)
 - Notification of acceptance: 16 March, 2026
 - Early bird registration ends: tbd
 - Camera ready version of the paper (for both oral/signed
presentations and posters): 27 March 2026
 - Submission of slides for interpreters' preparation (oral/signed
presentations only): 6 May 2026
 - Submission of all slides/posters for the conference platform: 6 May
2026
 - Submission of additional material, including demo videos, to be
made available alongside with the posters/slides on the conference
platform: 6 May 2026
 - This workshop: 16 May 2026
 - LREC main conference: 13–15 May 2026
 - LREC workshops 11, 12 & 16 May 2026



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