PoliticalNLP 2026

Submission is electronic via the Softconf START system:
🔗 https://softconf.com/lrec2026/PoliticalNLP2026/

PoliticalNLP 2026 is the third edition of the international workshop dedicated to the intersection of Natural Language Processing, political science, legal studies, media analysis, and computational social science.

Following successful editions at LREC 2022 (Marseille) and LREC-COLING 2024 (Torino), this year’s workshop focuses on:

Theme: Trust, Transparency & Generative AI in Political Discourse Analysis

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI now play a pivotal role in shaping public opinion, political narratives, and civic engagement. While they open exciting avenues for computational political analysis, they also raise critical challenges related to bias, cultural representation, explainability, misinformation, and democratic accountability.

PoliticalNLP 2026 brings together researchers and practitioners to explore these questions through responsible, interdisciplinary, and impactful NLP research.

We invite long and short papers that advance the study of political text, speech, and multimodal content through computational methods.

Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):

• Explainable, fair, and trustworthy NLP for political and electoral data
  
  

• Culturally-aware and culturally-adaptive LLMs for political discourse and cross-cultural reasoning
  
  

• Bias, misinformation, propaganda, and ethical risks in LLM-based political analysis
  
  

• NLP for migration studies, governance, policy analysis, and social forecasting
  
  

• Multilingual, cross-cultural, and low-resource political NLP
  
  

• Generative AI for deliberative democracy, policy modelling, and narrative analysis
  
  

• Legal and regulatory frameworks for AI in governance
  
  

• Annotation methodologies, datasets, and benchmarks for political communication research
  
  

• Reproducibility, transparency, and responsible AI practices
  
  

• Demonstrations of datasets, tools, and civic technology resources

Important Dates

• Paper Submission deadline (short and long papers): 16 February 2026

• Notification of acceptance: 11 March 2026

• Camera-ready papers due: 30 March 2026

• Early registration deadline: To be confirmed by LREC organisers

• PoliticalNLP 2026 Workshop: 11–12 May or 16 May 2026 (final allocation pending)
  
  

All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE (“anywhere on Earth”).

Paper Submission Instructions

Submission is electronic via the Softconf START system:
🔗 https://softconf.com/lrec2026/PoliticalNLP2026/

Paper length: 4–8 pages (excluding references and optional Ethics Statement).
All submissions must use the LREC 2026 stylesheet, available in the Authors’ Kit:

🔗 https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/

Sharing Language Resources

During submission, authors may optionally share datasets, models, or tools. These will be linked to the LRE Map, enhancing visibility and promoting community reuse.

Review Process

All submissions undergo double-blind peer review, and each will receive three independent reviews.
Accepted papers will appear in the LREC 2026 Workshop Proceedings.

For further information, please contact Haithem Afli (Haithem.Afli@mtu.ie)

Workshop Organizers                                       

General Chair: Haithem Afli, ADAPT Centre, Munster Technological University, Ireland

Program Chairs: 

• Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar

• Wajdi Zaghouani — Northwestern University in Qatar

• Sahar Ghannay, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France

• Cristina Blasi Casagran, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

• Shehenaz Hossain — Munster Technological University, Ireland

Program Committee

• Bruno Andrade, Munster Technological University, Ireland

• Lenka Dražanová, European University Institute, Italy

• Georgios Stavropoulos, The Centre for Research and Technology, Greece

• Andrea Iana, University of Mannheim, Germany

• Valentin Barrieren, Telecom ParisTech, France

• Mohammed Hasanuzzaman, Munster Technological University, Ireland

• Patrick Paroubek, Paris-Saclay University, CNRS, LISN, France

• Suman Adhya, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India

• Valentin Barriere, Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial, Santiago, Chile

Program PoliticalNLP @ LREC 2026 (half day workshop)