Call for papers
We specifically invite submissions on this year’s special theme, focusing on the highly debated issue of simulation of human perspectives with LLMs. We are especially interested in papers addressing issues related to:
Why: Why would we even want to simulate perspectives? What are the ethical boundaries that should not be crossed, even though we (seem to) have now a technology that can do “everything”?
Who: Whose perspectives do we find (or will not find) in LLMs? How well do we do beyond English, or beyond WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic)?
What: What types of data are needed for this type of research? What are the constraints that these types of data impose?
Where: The practical bottlenecks that determine where this type of research can be conducted (i.e., budget for compute, annotation) shape the community of the researchers that can work on this topic. Does this impact the diversity of research in this domain?
How: What are the methodologically sound choices to make? What is the boundary between LLM positioning and bias? How about reproducibility?
In addition to the special theme, we also welcome submissions on the following general topics to CPSS:
Modeling complex social constructs (e.g. populism, polarization, identity) with NLP methods
Political and social bias in language models
Modeling political communication with NLP (e.g. topic classification, position measurement)
Mining policy debates from heterogeneous textual sources
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
Validation of results beyond the train-dev-test paradigm of NLP and data science.
Data quality in human and synthetic data
Data leakage and contamination, especially in LLMs
New ways to collect data, i.e., dataset donation
Open science and reproducibility within the CPSS research
and many more ...
CPSS will feature a dedicated PhD Forum inviting submissions from doctoral researchers who wish to present their thesis topic. We warmly welcome contributions from PhD students at all stages of their doctorate, from those who are just beginning to develop their project to those with more advanced work in progress.
The forum is designed to give early-career scholars the opportunity to discuss their projects with a broader audience, receive constructive feedback at different stages of their PhD, and connect with other researchers and PhD students from their own as well as related disciplines. Participants may choose whether they would like feedback primarily on the social/political science dimensions of their work or on its computational aspects. Accepted contributions will be presented both as spotlight talks and as posters in a dedicated PhD Forum session.
Direct commitment for papers that are already peer reviewed on OpenReview (archival only, July 15): https://openreview.net/group?id=GSCL.org/KONVENS/2026/Workshop/CPSS_ARR_Commitment
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. When submitting, select "Full-paper submission".
non-archival abstracts (1-page abstracts, references excluded) describing already published research or ongoing work. When submitting, select "Abstract submission".
non-archival PhD project presentations (2-pages abstracts, references excluded) describing the idea, topic, and current state of the PhD project. When submitting, select "Abstract submission".
The three 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.
Long/short archival paper submissions must use the same style template as KONVENS 2026, which is the ACL style template. Non-archival abstracts (including PhD project presentations) should be formatted according to this template and should be submitted as PDF.
Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content. Short papers and demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. Non-archival abstracts must not exceed one (1) page. PhD project abstracts must not exceed two (2) pages. Limitations, Ethical Considerations, and References do not count against these limits. Supplementary material does also not count towards page limit and should be included in the appendix.
Every submission must be fully anonymized.
Important dates
Submission deadline (direct submission, archival and non archival): July 10th
Submission deadline ARR (archival only!): July 15th
Notification of acceptance: August 7th
Camera ready deadline: August 15th
Workshop: September 14 (13.00-19.00) and 15 (9.00-12.00)