36.3722, Confs: 5th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP (Spain)

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Date: 02-Dec-2025
From: Simona Frenda [s.frenda at hw.ac.uk]
Subject: 5th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP


5th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP
Short Title: NLPerspectives

Date: 11-May-2026 - 16-May-2026
Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Contact Email: g.abercrombie at hw.ac.uk
Meeting URL: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 27-Feb-2026

NLPerspectives
Until recently, language resources supporting many tasks in Natural
Language Processing (NLP) and other areas of Artificial Intelligence
(AI) have been based on the assumption of a single ‘ground truth’
label sought via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means.
However, the field is increasingly focused on subjective and
controversial tasks, such as quality estimation or abuse detection, in
which multiple points of view may be equally valid (for a complete
overview see Frenda et al., 2024).
Data Perspectivism is a proposed solution to deal with subjectivity
(Cabitza et al., 2023). Perspectivist approaches leverage human label
variation (Plank, 2022; Sorensen et al., 2024) to better account for
user diversity (Prabhakaran et al., 2021) and adopt evaluation
strategies capable of embracing disagreement (Uma et al., 2021, Lo et
al., 2025, Leonardelli et al., 2025).
In the previous editions of the workshop, different aspects of
perspectivist NLP were discussed, including ties to participatory
design, personalisation, computer vision, and multimedia research and
multicultural awareness in modelling. The fifth edition of the
workshop will widen the discussed methodology to include not only
current and ongoing work on collecting non-aggregated datasets, mining
and modelling perspectives, but also approaches to evaluation of
perspectivist models, looking in particular at their application in
real-world scenarios.
In addition, it will involve techniques from social science and
Human-Computer Interaction, such as participatory approaches and how
they can be implemented at all stages of the supervised learning
pipeline.
The NLPerspectives workshop will be co-located with the fifteenth
biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) held at
the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16
May 2026.
Submissions:
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e.
also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and
replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).  In
addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research
policies on AI and should include an ethics statement in their papers.
The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the
formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of the LREC
conference. Templates are provided here.
We accept three types of submissions:
- Regular research papers;
- Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be
included in the proceedings;
- (Non-archival) research communications: 1-page abstracts summarising
relevant research published elsewhere.
NLPerspectives will also accept submissions that have been rejected
from ACL rolling review, provided they are accompanied by their
reviews, and they fit the topic of the workshop.
Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8
pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 1 pages
of content.
Topics:
We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics,
including but not limited to:
- Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks
- Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm
- Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning
- Evaluation of multi-perspective or disagreement aware models
- Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation
- Fairness and inclusive modelling
- Perspectivist approaches for social good
- Applications of multi-perspective modelling
- Computing with (dis)agreement
- Perspectivist Natural Language Generation
- Perspectivism in multimodal AI
- Foundational aspects of perspectivism
- Participatory approaches and human label variation
- Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP
- Capabilities of Perspectivist Models in Real-World Systems
Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and
must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers
will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at
least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the
workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on
relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality,
scholarship, and quality of presentation.
Attendance:
The workshop will follow the attendance policy of the main conference.
Workshop organisers:
Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University
Valerio Basile, University of Turin
Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa
Shiran Dudy, Northeastern University
Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University
Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler



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