12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages:
Language in Motion
PROGRAMME
The following is the complete schedule of the sign-lang@LREC workshop, followed by an overview of papers on sign language that have been accepted to the LREC main conference. All main conference sign language papers are presented on Friday, 15 May, followed by the workshop taking place the next day, Saturday, 16 May.
Workshop Overview
| Saturday, 16 May 2026 | |
| 9:00–10:30 | Session A: On-stage |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00–12:30 | Session B: Posters |
| 12:30–14:30 | Lunch Break |
| 14:30–16:00 | Session C: On-stage |
| 16:00–16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30–18:00 | Session D: Posters |
| All day | Session R: Remote posters |
Workshop: Detailed Schedule
| Session A: On-stage Location: Menorca 1 | |
| 9:00–9:30 26051 | Comparison of Low Bitrate Quantizers for Encoding Swedish Sign Language Anna Klezovich, Johanna Mesch, Gustav Eje Henter and Jonas Beskow |
| 9:30–10:00 26050 | HeSLEx: A novel online questionnaire for heritage sign language research Evgeniia Khristoforova and Roman Poryadin |
| 10:00–10:30 | Elevator Pitches for Poster Sessions B and R |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 12:30–14:30 | Lunch Break |
| Session C: On-stage Location: Menorca 1 | |
| 14:30–15:00 26019 | The SignBeach Dataset of Dutch Sign Language (NGT) signs Annika Schiefner, Gomèr Otterspeer, Beyza Sümer and Floris Roelofsen |
| 15:00–15:30 26047 | A Comparative Analysis of Traditional and Contemporary Visual Features for Computational Annotation of Irish Sign Language Sarmad Khan, Simon McLoughlin and Irene Murtagh |
| 15:30–16:00 | Elevator Pitches for Poster Session D |
| 16:00–16:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session D: Posters Location: Menorca Hall | |
| 16:30–18:00 26041 | Capturing Methodology for Generating Synthetic and 3D Training Data in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): The Case of Verbal Agreement Gemma Barberà, Inés Broto Clemente, Xavier Vinaixa Roselló and Roger Cassany Viladomat |
| 16:30–18:00 26037 | Leveraging Unannotated Sign Language Data via a Robust Data Augmentation Method for Contrastive Representation Learning Ariel Basso Madjoukeng, Pierre Gil L. Poitier, Kenmogne Edith Belise, Adelaide Couplet, Margaux Leleu and Frenay Benoit |
| 16:30–18:00 26026 | SignGPT and the Visual Language Toolkit Matt Brown, Oline Ranum, Edward Fish, Heidi Proctor, Bencie Woll, Richard Bowden and Kearsy Cormier |
| 16:30–18:00 26055 | A Small Model for Big Articulators: Sign Language Detection With a Tiny Machine Learning Model Frederick Chan, Gina-Anne Levow and Qi Cheng |
| 16:30–18:00 26064 | "A Sacred Bird Called the Phoenix". Auditing the most-used Parallel Corpus for German Sign Language Recognition and Translation Vera Czehmann, Shakib Yazdani, Yasser Hamidullah, Fabrizio Nunnari and Eleftherios Avramidis |
| 16:30–18:00 26006 | Diffusion-Based 3D Sign Language Motion Anonymization: A Feasibility Study on Balancing Identity Confusion and Semantic Preservation Zixuan Dai and Shinji Sako |
| 16:30–18:00 26049 | Feature Analysis of MoCap Data for Optimised Sign Language Processing Yves A. Duppen, Mirella De Sisto, Ifigeneia Mavridou, Phillip C. Brown, Lisa B. Lepp and Dimitar Shterionov |
| 16:30–18:00 26016 | Leveraging Text-side Augmentation For Sign Language Translation Diandra Fabre, Julie Lascar, Julie Halbout and Markarit Vartampetian |
| 16:30–18:00 26045 | Formalising Sign Language Depiction, Characterising Categories and Measuring Iconicity with AZee Michael Filhol and Emmanuella Martinod |
| 16:30–18:00 26040 | The Iterative Development and Evaluation Framework for Kazakh-Russian Signing Avatars Targeted to Native Deaf Signers Alfarabi Imashev and Tohid Alizadeh |
| 16:30–18:00 26030 | Exploring Aspects of Spontaneous Signing in the DGS Corpus Maria Kopf, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer, Marc Schulder and Lutz König |
| 16:30–18:00 26043 | HNS2CF: A Mapping Tool from HamNoSys to SL CatForm Lisa Loy and Hope E. Morgan |
| 16:30–18:00 26008 | Emotion Recognition in German Sign Language with Facial Action Units Cristina Luna Jimenez, Lennart Eing, Sergio Esteban Romero, Tanja Schneeberger, Patrick Gebhard, Fabrizio Nunnari and Elisabeth Andre |
| 16:30–18:00 26035 | Evaluation of Pose Estimation Systems for Sign Language Translation Catherine E. O'Brien, Gerard Sant, Mathias Müller and Sarah Ebling |
| 16:30–18:00 26060 | A Video-Based Reverse Dictionary for Sign Language Using Gesture Similarity Batyrbek Orazumbekov, Daniyal Bayanov, Aruzhan Kaltay and Anara Sandygulova |
| 16:30–18:00 26059 | Norwegian Sign Language: Overview of Resources and Experiments with Automatic SignWriting Transcription Elisabeth Othamar and Yves Scherrer |
| 16:30–18:00 26056 | Lost in Expression: Diagnosing Systemic Challenges with Non-Manual Generalization in Sign Language Understanding Tasks Dmitriy Sazonov, Sevgi Z. Gurbuz and Evguenia A. Malaia |
| 16:30–18:00 26023 | Comparing Computer Vision Instruments for Eye Blink Analysis Margaux Marie Christelle Susman, Carla Miquel Blasco and Jan Bulla |
| 16:30–18:00 26012 | Grounding Sign Language Representation Learning in Phonology Toon Vandendriessche, Mathieu De Coster and Joni Dambre |
| 16:30–18:00 26018 | Towards Integrating Pose Estimation with Neuroimaging for the Analysis of Signed Language Video Stimuli Sébastien Vandenitte, Doris Hernández, Jarkko Keränen, Tommi Jantunen and Anna Puupponen |
| Session R: Remote posters Location: | |
| All day 26033 | The In-Car Sign Language Corpus (ICSL): A Multi-Modal Resource for Constrained-Space Sign Language Recognition Ravi Teja Boddu, Guilherme Vieira Leite, Joed Lopes da Silva, Ângelo Benetti, Isabela Barbieri, Natália de Melo Afonso, Thyago Santos, Hélio Pedrini, Felipe Venâncio Barbosa, José Mario De Martino, Munir Georges and Alessandro Zimmer |
| All day 26004 | Seeing Who Is Signing and With Which Hand Carl Börstell |
| All day 26021 | Processing Kinematics of Nonmanual Markers in R Jan Bulla and Vadim Kimmelman |
| All day 26029 | The De-Sign Platform: An Online Psychometric Tool for Dementia Screening of Deaf Older Adults in two Sign Languages, GSL and ÖGS Athanasia - Lida Dimou, Theodore Goulas, Marianna Tsatali, Tarsita Ntova, Doris Hoffmann-Lamplmair, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Eleni Efthimiou, Birgit Teichmann, Magda Tsolaki, Joanna Atkinson and Bencie Woll |
| All day 26013 | A Pose-Based Pipeline for Annotation of Headshakes in Sign Language Corpora Gustaf Gren and Nikolaus Riemer Kankkonen |
| All day 26067 | Perceptual Validation of 3D Pose, Guided Sign Language Synthesis Ezekiel Maina, Lilian Wanzare and James Obuhuma |
| All day 26054 | Beyond BLEU: Linguistic Invisibility and Interactional Repair Sequence in End-to-End Sign Language Translation Zirui Wang and Mayumi Bono |
| All day 26014 | Continuous Sign Language Recognition using Multimodal Input and Handshape-aware Boundary Detection Mingyu Zhao, Zhanfu Yang, Yang Zhou, Zhaoyang Xia, Can Jin, Xiaoxiao He, Shuhang Lin, Carol Neidle and Dimitri Metaxas |
LREC Main Conference
Several papers about sign languages have been published with the LREC main conference. The following table lists these papers and their schedule. All information is taken from the main conference website and may be subject to change. Please also check the LREC website or app for up-to-date information.
All main conference sign language presentations have been scheduled for Friday, 15 May 2026, the day before the sign-lang@LREC workshop.
| Friday, 15 May 2026 | |
| Session P8.4: Cross-modality Location: Poster Area 2 | |
| 9:00–10:40 402 | Generating Sign Language Poses from HamNoSys and Natural Language Descriptions Santiago Máximo and Luis Chiruzzo |
| Session P8.5: Sign Languages Location: Poster Area 2 | |
| 9:00–10:40 557 | Bridging Text-to-Sign Translation via Codebook-Oriented Pretraining Ninlawat Phuangchoke and Chantri Polprasert |
| 9:00–10:40 581 | A Resource and Evaluation Method for Phonological Continuity in Japanese Sign Language Jundai Inoue, Daisuke Hara and Makoto Miwa |
| 9:00–10:40 1126 | Sentiment Analysis of German Sign Language Fairy Tales Fabrizio Nunnari, Siddhant Jain and Patrick Gebhard |
| 9:00–10:40 1170 | A Critical Study of Automatic Evaluation in Sign Language Translation Shakib Yazdani, Yasser Hamidullah, Cristina España-Bonet, Eleftherios Avramidis and Josef van Genabith |
| 9:00–10:40 1426 | How Much Data Is Enough Data? A New Motion Capture Corpus for Probabilistic Sign Language Generation Anna Klezovich, Johanna Mesch, Gustav Eje Henter and Jonas Beskow |
| 9:00–10:40 1436 | Decomposing Sign Language Movements: A Multi-Band Visualization Method for Articulatory Analysis Antonio F. G. Sevilla and José María Lahoz-Bengoechea |
| Session O32: Speech Resources, Processing, Applications Location: Eivissa 1 | |
| 10:00–10:20 869 | How Pragmatics Shape Articulation: A Computational Case Study in STEM ASL Discourse Saki Imai, Lee Kezar, Laurel Aichler, Mert Inan, Erin Walker, Alicia Wooten, Lorna Cobban Quandt and Malihe Alikhan |
| Session P9.3.1: Language Modeling and LRs III Location: Poster Area 1 | |
| 11:00–12:40 498 | Introducing a Bangla Sentence – Gloss Pair Dataset for Bangla Sign Language Translation and Research Neelavro Saha, Rafi Shahriyar, Nafis Ashraf Roudra, Saadman Sakib and Annajiat Alim Rasel |
| Session P9.1: Natural Language Generation Location: Poster Area 1 | |
| 11:00–12:40 1179 | Evaluating Large Language Models for Text-to-Gloss Translation in Kazakh-Russian Sign Language: A Pilot Study Zhanibek Kozhirbayev and Alfarabi Imashev |