36.3826, Confs: Workshops at LREC 2026: Social Context Workshop and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions Workshop (Spain)

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Date: 10-Dec-2025
From: Marco Antonio Stranisci [marcoantonio.stranisci at unito.it]
Subject: Workshops at LREC 2026: Social Context Workshop and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions Workshop


Workshops at LREC 2026: Social Context Workshop and Integrating NLP
and Psychology to Study Social Interactions Workshop
Short Title: SoCon-NLPSI
Theme: Including social and psychological factors that shape
linguistics behaviors in NLP technologies

Date: 12-May-2026 - 12-May-2026
Location: Palma De Mallorca, Spain
Contact: Marco Antonio Stranisci
Contact Email: socon-nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc at uni-bamberg.de
Meeting URL: https://socon-nlpsi.github.io/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Submission Deadline: 16-Feb-2026

SoCon and NLPSI will be co-located with the 15th conference on
Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’26), held in Palau de
Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain), on 11-16 May 2026.
Overview:
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone a significant
evolution, opening up the possibility of capturing high-level aspects
of human communication. Key areas of interest include the pragmatics,
social dynamics, and the integration of social context, to further
explore communicative intent. The SoCon and NLPSI workshops share a
common interest in the social dimension of communication, although
they address distinct challenges.
The Social Context Workshop focuses on exploring the mechanisms
through which context shapes language use to accurately model it. The
workshop takes an interdisciplinary approach, seeking to establish a
shared vocabulary on this topic and to explore how NLP can be
integrated with Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, and Sociology. By
promoting alternatives to traditional crowdsourcing techniques, it
aims to provide a platform for advancing community-centred approaches
in NLP.
The NLPSI Workshop examines the core psychological processes that
shape human behavior and communication, as well as the factors that
influence how individuals perceive, process, and produce language, and
the impact of these processes on communication. This interdisciplinary
workshop welcomes researchers from NLP, Social Psychology, and
Affective Computing, intending to conduct large-scale studies that
explore key theories and research questions across these domains.
Driven by the shared interest in human communicative behaviors and
interactive dynamics, we announce a joint Call for Papers, organized
into two specialized tracks: SoCon and NLPSI. To ensure the most
appropriate review and placement, authors should direct their work to
the track that best aligns with the core focus of their research
contributions.
SoCon Track:
Towards Responsibly Infusing NLP With Social Context, Community
Meanings, and Pragmatics Through Interdisciplinary NLP Efforts.
The track welcomes submissions on topics including, but not limited
to, the following:
 - Adopting interdisciplinary methods for modeling context: exploring
the integration of NLP with pragmatics and social sciences.
 - Studying social communities: discussion and critical exploration of
how to engage with communities of practice and speech communities.
 - Investigating ethical challenges in the creation of NLP resources:
participatory design, involving communities affected by specific
social issues.
 - Explaining behaviors in social interactions: modeling social
attitudes as the result of the complex interaction between people's
backgrounds, communicative contexts, and events that trigger their
behavior.
NLPSI Track:
Bridging the gap between NLP and psychological insights to foster a
deeper understanding of social interactions
The track welcomes submissions on topics including, but not limited
to, the following:
 - Psychological constructs: (e.g., beliefs, motives, feelings,
affect, personality).
 - Psychological studies: especially those focused on interaction.
 - Communication patterns: such as empathy, persuasion, and conflict
resolution.
 - Role of emotions in interpersonal communication: including
phenomena like emotion contagion and interpersonal emotion regulation.
Submission Types:
We welcome the following types of submissions:
 - Long papers (up to 8 pages) that present original research, from
preliminary findings to established contributions, including theory,
experiments, or applications.
 - Short papers (up to 4 pages) that introduce emerging ideas, work in
progress, or early-stage research with clear significance.
Submission Guidelines:
 - All submissions will be double-blind reviewed
 - Submissions should follow LREC guidelines. Here are all the
templates (LaTeX, Word, Open Office, Overleaf LaTeX templates).
 - Page limit applies to the main content of the papers. Sections
including limitations, ethical considerations, acknowledgements,
references and appendices do not count toward this limit.
 - All submissions will be managed through Softconf.
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.
Workshop Format:
The workshop will follow the attendance policy of the main conference.
The workshop will be a full-day event featuring:
Keynote speeches from leading experts in the field
Paper presentations (oral and lightning talks)
The workshop will be held in a hybrid format
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: February 16th, 2026
Notification of acceptance: March 23rd, 2026
Camera ready: March 30th, 2026
Workshop day: May 12th, 2026
Organizers:
SoCon:
Marco Antonio Stranisci, University of Turin
Soda Marem Lo, University of Turin
Sabine Weber, Bamberg University
Rossana Damiano, University of Turin
Simona Frenda, Heriot-Watt University
Roman Klinger, Bamberg University
Viviana Patti, University of Turin
Marteen Sap, Carnegie Mellon University
Seid Muhie Yimam, University of Hamburg
NLPSI:
Aswathy Velutharambath, University of Bamberg
Sofie Labat, Ghent University
Neele Falk, University of Stuttgart
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University
Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg
Véronique Hoste, Ghent University
Bennett Kleinberg, University College London (UK)
Contact: socon-nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc at uni-bamberg.de



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