The 5th NLP4PI Workshop will take place at EMNLP2026 in Budapest!
We will be glad to see works empowering current advances of NLP and AI for various social impact like addressing pressing global challenges, poverty, hunger, healthcare, education, inequality, and climate change. The workshop fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, encouraging submissions that bridge NLP with fields like social science, journalism, economics, HCI, and NGOs of different domains.
Call for papers is out!
You can follow us on X @NLP4PosImpact and BlueSky @nlp4posimpact.bsky.social.
Barbara Plank
(LMU)
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad
(Imperial College London)
Maria Antoniak
(University of Colorado Boulder)
Cristian Danescu Niculescu Mizil
(Cornell University)
Sophia Ananiadou
(University of Manchester)
Gary Kazantsev
(Bloomberg)
Katherine Atwell (Northeastern University)
Angana Borah (University of Michigan)
Dr. Daryna Dementieva (Technical University of Munich)
Prof Elisa Kreiss
(University of California)
Dr. Neema Kotonya (Dataminr)
Jiarui Liu
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Liz Olson
(Dataminr)
Ruyuan Wan (Pennsylvania State University)
Prof Jieyu Zhao (University of Southern California)
Prof Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan)
Dr. Joel Tetreault (Dataminr)
Dr. Zhijing Jin (University of Toronto)
In our workshop, we aim to connect social needs and the power of NLP. Our missions are
We encourage research work on NLP for Social Good (NLP4SG): Papers can submit to our workshop according to this call for papers. As a reference, we provide a list of NLP4SG papers in this list.
We foster conversations between researchers and people working on the frontiers of social good: In every workshop, we host keynotes, panels, and birds-of-a-feather discussions. See our ACL 2021 Workshop, EMNLP 2022 Workshop, EMNLP 2024 Workshop and slack.
Workshop Date: October 2026, Budapest, Hungary. Central European Time (CET).
Live streaming on Zoom will be enabled for virtual participants (zoom link will be posted).
As an output of this workshop, we will record our joint research brainstormings in this doc
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