Call for Papers – PoliticalNLP 2026 (co-located with LREC 2026)

[Houda Bouamor]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite submissions to PoliticalNLP 2026, the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences, co-located with LREC 2026, to be held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (11–16 May 2026).

PoliticalNLP is an interdisciplinary forum at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, political science, legal studies, media analysis, and computational social science.

🧭 Workshop Theme

Trust, Transparency & Generative AI in Political Discourse Analysis

Large Language Models and Generative AI increasingly shape political narratives, public opinion, and civic engagement. While these technologies open new avenues for political analysis, they also raise critical challenges related to bias, cultural representation, explainability, misinformation, and democratic accountability.

PoliticalNLP 2026 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to explore these issues through responsible, transparent, and impactful NLP research.

📄 Submission Types

We invite long and short papers, including but not limited to work on:

• Political text, speech, and multimodal content analysis
• Generative AI and LLMs in political and civic contexts
• Trust, transparency, explainability, and fairness in political NLP
• Misinformation, propaganda, and narrative framing
• Multilingual and cross-cultural political analysis
• Ethics, regulation, and governance of AI in political discourse

📅 Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: 16 February 2026
• Notification of acceptance: March 2026
• Workshop dates: 11–16 May 2026 (exact date TBA)

🔗 Submission

All submissions are handled via the Softconf START system:
👉 https://softconf.com/lrec2026/PoliticalNLP2026/

Accepted papers will be published in the LREC 2026 Workshop Proceedings.

We warmly welcome contributions from NLP, political science, media studies, law, digital humanities, ethics, and related fields.

Please feel free to circulate this CFP widely.

We look forward to your submissions!

Kind regards,
The PoliticalNLP 2026 Organising Committee
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/politicalnlp2026