Call for papers: NLP+CSS 2024

Sixth Workshop on 

NLP and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS)

At NAACL 2024

Language is deeply intertwined with nearly all human social processes. We do not expect teenagers to speak like senior citizens, and we recognize the mutual dependency between language and the ways people interact with and even conceptualize the world. Although this interdependence is at the core of models in both natural language processing (NLP) and (computational) social sciences (CSS), these two fields are continuing to come together, with many opportunities for novel methods, research insights, and potential applications. Humans with different social attributes and cultural backgrounds (compared to bots and trolls) react to information spread online differently, and express their reactions using a large variety of language and content choices. Identifying and measuring bias based on language use in different online communities is another emerging area of research. Moreover, it has been shown that one can construct social variables from language and estimate the relationship between these social variables and measures in economics, politics, law, religion, anthropology and other fields.  


This workshop aims to (1) advance the joint computational analysis of social sciences and language and (2) study how language can be used to measure social variables and their impact across disciplines, both by explicitly involving social scientists with NLP researchers, and other partners from both industry and academia.


This sixth edition of the NLP+CSS workshop builds on five successful years with hundreds of interdisciplinary submissions to make NLP techniques and insights standard practice in CSS research. Our focus is on NLP for social sciences: to continue the progress of CSS, and to integrate CSS with current trends and techniques in NLP.   


The workshop will have the following tentative format:


Submission Details

We invite research on any of the following general topics:


Areas of interest include all levels of linguistic analysis and social sciences, including (but not limited to): phonology, syntax, pragmatics, stylistics, economics, psychology, sociology, sociolinguistics, political science, geography, demography, survey methodology, and public health.


We especially invite graduate students from both disciplines (i.e. social sciences and NLP) and connect them with experts in the respective other field (e.g., an NLP student with an expert in social sciences or vice versa). We would like to again provide mentorship for social science students who could not otherwise attend a computer science conference. 


Submission. We invite both long and short papers to be submitted through Open Review: 

https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2024/Workshop/NLP-CSS


Long papers should present new and substantial contributions related to the workshop’s theme. Short papers may be a small and focused contribution or describe a work in progress. While all submissions will be reviewed equally, authors can choose a non-archival submission, since some social sciences do not accept journal articles already published in archived proceedings. 


Papers will follow the ACL (ARR) style guidelines for length and formatting.


More Information

The NLP+CSS website contains more details on the call for papers, submission instructions, and aims of the workshop: https://sites.google.com/site/nlpandcss/ or follow us on Twitter/X at @nlpandcss.


Contact the organizers by email via nlp-and-css [AT] googlegroups.com.


Important Dates

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