***SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: The First Workshop on Integrating NLP and
Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI) ***
NLPSI will be co-located with the International AAAI Conference on Web
and Social Media (ICWSM’25) and will take place in person on Monday 23
June 2025.
** Background and Scope **
Recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) have enabled not
only the modeling of syntax and semantics but also the analysis of
higher-level aspects of human communication—such as pragmatics, social
dynamics, and emotional expression. Building on these advances, we can
now address foundational questions that remain relatively unexplored in
NLP: What are the core psychological processes that shape human behavior
and communication? What factors influence how individuals perceive,
process, and produce language, and how do these processes impact
communication? Psychology can offer valuable insights into these
questions, as it has been studying human behavior, perception and
communication for years. At the same time, NLP enables us to go beyond
controlled, small-scale experiments and conduct large-scale studies to
better explore certain theories and research questions in psychology.
NLPSI workshop seeks to bridge the two disciplines with a primary focus
on NLP research that is grounded in psychological theories. This is an
interdisciplinary workshop, and we invite researchers from NLP, Social
Psychology, Communication Sciences, Affective Computing, and related
fields to submit their work. We welcome submissions on topics including,
but not restricted to, the following:
- Psychological constructs (e.g., beliefs, motives, feelings,
affect, personality).
- Psychological studies, especially those focused on interaction.
- Language and social identities, including ethnicity and group
affiliation.
- Communication patterns such as empathy, persuasion, and conflict
resolution
- Role of emotions in interpersonal communication, including
phenomena like emotion contagion and interpersonal emotion regulation.
- LLMs in experimental, interactional studies.
- Cross-cultural variations in communication and behavior.
** Submission Types **
- Long papers (5 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.
- Extended Abstracts (up to 2 pages)that present ongoing work,
position papers, previously published work, or research projects.
Abstracts can be submitted either for inclusion in the proceedings
(archival) or as non-archival contributions.
** Format **
All papers must follow the AAAI two-column, camera-ready style, for US
Letter (8.5" x 11") paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts (available
templates: AAAI 2025 Author Kit on Overleaf or AAAI 2025 Author Kit.zip
[Word | LaTeX]). The review process will be double-blind. Please
anonymize your papers by removing identifying information such as author
names, affiliations, and funding details.
** Important Dates **
Paper submission deadline: March 21, 2025
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2025
Camera ready: May 26, 2025
NLPSI Workshop day: June 23rd, 2025
Note: All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (anywhere on earth).
** Organizers **
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
** Website and Contact **
For further information and updates, visit the NLPSI website:
nlpsi-workshop.github.io
If you have any questions, please contact
nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc(a)uni-bamberg.de