4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS)
13 September 2024 @ KONVENS (Vienna)
This is the 4th edition of the workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS). Our main goal is to bring together researchers and ideas from computational linguistics/NLP and the text-as-data community from political and social science, to foster collaboration and catalyze further interdisciplinary research efforts between these communities.
Call for papers
Potential topics
Modeling political communication with NLP (e.g. topic classification, position measurement)
Mining policy debates from heterogeneous textual sources
Modeling complex social constructs (e.g. populism, polarization, identity) with NLP methods
Political and social bias in language models
Methodological insights in interdisciplinary collaboration: workflows, challenges, best practices
NLP support to understand and support democratic decision making
Resources and tools for Political/Social Science research
... and more
Submission
You can submit your papers at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2024
We solicit two types of submissions:
archival papers 🌿 describing original and unpublished work (long papers: max. 8 pages, references/appendix excluded; short papers: max 4 pages, references/appendix excluded). Accepted papers will be published on the ACL anthology. For the submission format, refer to the KONVENS guidelines.
non-archival papers 🌳 (1-page abstracts, references excluded) describing already published research or ongoing work
The two formats will meet the need of researchers from different communities, allowing the exchange of ideas in a "get to know each other" environment which we hope will foster future collaborations.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 14 June 2024
Notification of acceptance: 2 August 2024
Camera ready deadline: 12 August 2024
Workshop: 13 September 2024
Organizers
Christopher Klamm is an interdisciplinary PhD student at the University of Mannheim. His research efforts and interests are in the areas of NLP and Computational Political Science, with a focus on automatic rhetoric and framing analysis.
Gabriella Lapesa is a junior professor for Responsible Data Science and Machine Learning at the Heinrich-Heine University D usseldorf and a team lead for Data Science Methods in the Department of Computational Social Science at the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS) in Cologne.
Simone Paolo Ponzetto holds the chair of Information Systems III (Enterprise Data Analysis) at the University of Mannheim, where he leads the Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval group. His research interests include research on text understanding and its interdisciplinary application in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Ines Rehbein is a postdoctoral researcher in the Data and Web Science Group at the University of Mannheim, working with Prof. Dr. Simone Paolo Ponzetto on topics related to the development and application of Natural Language Processing methods to research questions in the Computational Social Sciences.
Indira Sen is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Political Science and Public Policy department at the University of Konstanz. Her research is about understanding and characterizing the measurement quality of social science constructs like political attitudes and abusive content from digital traces, combining NLP and social science measurement theory.
Program committee
Coming soon...
Previous editions of the workshop