Event: 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages 
(sign-lang@LREC 2024)
Deadline: 22 February 2024
Website: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2024/
Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/signlang2024/


CALL FOR PAPERS

Submissions are invited for a full day workshop on sign language resources, to 
take place on 20 May 2024 as a satellite event of LREC-COLING 2024 in Turin, 
Italy.

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) or as posters (with or without demonstrations) on 
the following topics:


2024 SPECIAL TOPIC: EVALUATION OF SIGN LANGUAGE RESOURCES

With the field maturing, it becomes an urgent issue to assess the quality of 
sign language resources for a large variety of tasks. We invite contributions 
on both automatic and human-based evaluation procedures for all kinds of sign 
language resources and tools.


GENERAL ISSUES ON SIGN LANGUAGE CORPORA AND TOOLS

• Avatar technology as a tool in sign language corpora and corpus data feeding 
into advances in avatar technology
• 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
• 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
• FAIR, CARE and OpenScience for sign language data

In the tradition of LREC, oral/signed presentations and poster presentations 
(with or without demonstrations) 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 or an 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/lrec-coling2024/signlang2024/) not later than 22 February 
2024, indicating whether you prefer an oral/signed presentation, a poster 
presentation or a poster presentation with demo. Unlike the main conference, 
the workshop will be reviewed single-blind, so submissions SHOULD NOT BE 
ANONYMOUS.

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: 22 February 2024 (11:59PM UTC-12:00 “anywhere on 
Earth”)
• Notification of acceptance: 22 March, 2024
• Early bird registration ends: tbd
• Camera ready version of the paper (for both oral/signed presentations and 
posters): 8 April 2024
• Submission of slides for interpreters' preparation (oral/signed presentations 
only): 10 May 2024
• This workshop: 20 May 2024
• LREC main conference: 22–24 May 2024
• LREC workshops 20, 21 & 25 May 2024

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