Call for papers: NLPerspectives – The 5th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP
Collocated with LREC in Palma de Mallorca
https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/<https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/4th-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach…>
Important Dates
* February 27: Paper submission
* May 11-16, 2026: NLPerspectives workshop at EMNLP
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<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>.
We accept three types of submissions:
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Regular research papers;
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Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings;
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(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:
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Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks
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Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm
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Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning
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Evaluation of multi-perspective or disagreement aware models
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Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation
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Fairness and inclusive modelling
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Perspectivist approaches for social good
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Applications of multi-perspective modelling
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Computing with (dis)agreement
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Perspectivist Natural Language Generation
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Perspectivism in multimodal AI
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Foundational aspects of perspectivism
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Participatory approaches and human label variation
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Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP
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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<https://lrec2026.info/registration-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
Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions.
Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/
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Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) invites applications for a full-time, open-rank faculty position in Humanistic and Critical Approaches to Artificial Intelligence in the Communication Program.
We seek scholars whose research centers humanistic perspectives on AI. Areas of interest include:
* Critical, historical, or theoretical approaches to AI
* AI ethics and algorithmic accountability
* Cultural manipulation and AI
* Humanistic, interpretive, comparative, or transnational AI methodologies
* Critical studies of AI in media industries
* AI’s intersections with sound, robotics, digital labor, and computation
Candidates should demonstrate a strong research record (commensurate with rank) or strong potential for early-career scholars, as well as a commitment to inclusive teaching, mentoring, and service. The teaching load is two courses per semester, including core courses and electives aligned with the candidate’s expertise. Faculty may also contribute to interdisciplinary minors such as AI and Media, Media and Politics, Strategic Communication, Film and Design, Middle East Studies, and Africana Studies.
NU-Q offers opportunities for collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Study of the Global South, the Artificial Intelligence and Media Lab, and the Media Majlis Museum. Located in Education City, NU-Q is a diverse, globally connected institution with students from more than 60 countries.
Applications received by January 4, 2026, will receive priority; the position remains open until filled.
Apply here: https://facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQ2NA==
Please prepare all materials in PDF format before submission; the system does not allow post-submission edits. References will be contacted directly.
Best regards,
Wajdi
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Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Residence,
Communication Program
Northwestern Qatar | Education City
Twentieth International Workshop on Juris-informatics
(JURISIN 2026)
associated with JSAI International Symposia on AI 2026 (IsAI-2026)
June 7th and 8th, 2026
G MESSE GUNMA (GUNMA Convention Center), Gunma, Japan (Hybrid Format)
https://www.g-messe-gunma.jp/en/
Aims and Scope
Juris-informatics studies legal issues from the perspective of
informatics and AI. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss both
the fundamental and practical issues among people from the various
backgrounds such as law, social science, information and intelligent
technology, logic and philosophy, including the conventional "AI and
law" area. We solicit unpublished papers on theories, technologies and
applications on juris-informatics.
Important Dates
Workshop: June 7th and 8th, 2026
Submission Deadline: 25 Jan, 2026
Notification: 28 Feb, 2026
Camera-ready due: 25 March, 2026
Registration
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Model of legal reasoning
Argumentation / Negotiation / Argumentation agent
Legal term ontology
Formal legal knowledge-base / Intelligent management of legal knowledge-base
Computer-aided legal education
Use of informatics and AI in law
Social implications of use of informatics and AI in law
AI and intellectual property
Legal/Ethical Compliance check of AI Systems
Natural language processing for legal knowledge
Translating law into formal representation
Legal data mining
Legal document analysis
Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems
Online dispute resolution
Evidential reasoning
AI application to forensics
AI application to smart contracts and blockchain
Legislation support by AI/IT techniques
Generative AI and Law
Any theories and technologies which is not directly related with
juris-informatics but has a potential to contribute to this domain
Submissions
We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original
papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication
elsewhere. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to
the Springer Verlag LNCS style in a pdf form, which can be obtained
from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…
and not exceed 14 pages including figures, references, etc. If you use
a word file, please follow the instruction of the format, and then
convert it into a pdf form and submit it at the paper submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=jurisin2026
If a paper is accepted, at least one author of the paper must register
the workshop through this page. Without fulfilling this condition, the
paper will not be in the proceedings.
Proceedings
We will publish accepted papers which have LNAI quality in IsAI2026
proceedings in LNAI series.
We will also publish another online proceedings other than LNAI
proceedings for papers which are not qualified for LNAI publication,
but are selected to be presented at the workshop.
Workshop Chairs
Ken Satoh, Center for Juris-informatics, Japan
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan
Program Committee Members (To be confirmed)
Ryuta Arisaka, Kyoto University
Agata Ciabattoni, TU Wien
Giuseppe Contissa, University of Bologna
Marina De Vos, University of Bath
Huimin Dong, TU Wien
Wachara Fungwacharakorn, Center for Juris-Informatics
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta
Guido Governatori, Central Queensland University
Shigeru Kagayama, Meiji Gakuin University
Tokuyasu Kakuta, Chuo University
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University
Mi-Young Kim, U. of Alberta
Yuntao Kong, Center for Juris-Informatics
Davide Liga, University of Luxembourg
Makoto Nakamura, Niigata Institute of Technology
Maria Navas-Loro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Ha-Thanh Nguyen, National Institute of Informatics
Le-Minh Nguyen, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Katsumi Nitta, Center for Juris-Informatics
Yasuhiro Ogawa, Nagoya City University
Shozo Ota, The University of Tokyo
Monica Palmirani, CIRSFID, ALMA-AI
Livio Robaldo, University of Swansea
Victor Rodriguez Doncel, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Seiichiro Sakurai, Meiji Gakuin University
Ken Satoh, Center for Juris-Informatics
Cor Steging, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Satoshi Tojo, Asia University
Katsuhiko Toyama, Nagoya University
Vu Tran, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan
Bart Verheij, University of Groningen
Mayu Watanabe, Institute of Science Tokyo
Sabine Wehnert, Leibniz Institute for Educational Media \ Georg
Eckert Institute
Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Tohoku University
Adam Wyner, Univesity of Swansea
Hiroaki Yamada, Institute of Science Tokyo
Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University
May Myo Zin, Center for Juris-Informatics
Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen
jurisin 2026 homepage:
https://jurisinformaticscenter.github.io/jurisin2026/
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Yoshinobu Kano, Ph.D.
Professor, Research Fellow
Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University
personal webpage: http://kanolab.net/kano/ e-mail: kano(a)kanolab.net
kano(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp