GenAI4World - Call for Papers

We welcome papers on the following topics, including but not limited to:

Globalizing tasks. Which tasks are understudied or absent in non-English, non-Western contexts, and vice versa? What usage patterns reveal gaps in how present systems were designed?
Evaluation beyond performance. What do standard metrics miss—register, cultural expectation, usability across contexts? How do we move beyond Western-centric benchmarks across text, image, audio, and video?
Data collection and annotation. What data is missing, and how should it be collected? How do annotation standards and evaluation practices need to change across languages and cultures—and who should be involved?
Innovations and vulnerabilities from the world. Can global users’ experiences inform better system design? What new risks do they expose? What can insights from one language or modality teach us about others?
Modeling for global understanding. What does it mean to build a model not bound to any single language or culture—one that understands how cultural context and user identity interact to shape meaning, and helps users bridge contexts without erasing their own? What needs to be done to achieve this?
Interdisciplinary and cross-modal insights. How can advances in one modality inform others? Can bridging NLP, computer vision, audio processing, and the social sciences and humanities inspire new directions?

Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=colmweb.org/COLM/2026/Workshop/GenAI4World

Workshop Track

We welcome submissions of novel, unpublished work. We solicit extended abstracts (up to 2 pages), short papers (up to 5 pages), and long papers (up to 9 pages); all are non-archival, with unlimited space for references and appendices. Submissions must include a statement addressing broader impacts and ethical considerations of their work, in line with COLM Code of Ethics, outside the page limit. All submissions should use the official COLM LaTeX style template and follow the COLM submission guidelines.

We will manage submissions through OpenReview. All papers will undergo a double-blind review process, and the final acceptance decisions will be made by the workshop organizers. The important dates are as follows:

Paper submission deadline: June 23, 2026 AoE
Notification of acceptance: July 24, 2026 AoE

Conference Track

We also welcome submissions that have been accepted to other journals/conferences within a year (e.g., accepted to COLM 2026) and are aligned with the themes of this workshop. These submissions will not be subject to a review process in this workshop. Instead, they will undergo a light-touch screening to ensure thematic relevance. Authors may submit the camera-ready version of their accepted paper (no anonymization required). The important dates are as follows:

Paper submission deadline: July 17, 2026 AoE
Notification of acceptance: July 24, 2026 AoE