Exciting news! Due to several requests, we are happy to announce a deadline extension for the 2nd Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing (NLP4Ecology 2026) to be held at LREC 2026 on 12 May 2026 (afternoon).
New Submission Deadline: 4 March 2026 (23:59 AoE)
All other dates remain unchanged:
Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2026
Camera-Ready Deadline: 30 March 2026
Workshop Date: 12 May 2026
Submissions are handled via START: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/NLP4Ecology2026/
Scope: The workshop brings together researchers working at the intersection of NLP, linguistics, and ecological/environmental studies, with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to the ecological crisis.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
Sentiment, argument, and stance analysis of environmental topics
Automated linguistic, discourse, frame analysis and topic modeling in ecological communication
Detection of anthropocentric and speciesist biases (including in LLMs)
Environmental text classification, entity recognition, and monitoring
Fact-checking and greenwashing detection
Ecofeminism, environmental justice, and language
Corpora creation and annotation for ecological discourse
Environmental communication in low-resource languages
Multimodal approaches to environmental narratives
Fairness, ethics, and accountability in environmental NLP
NLP for climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, and environmental policy
Submission Categories:
Regular papers (4–8 pages) – research papers or position papers, archival, included in the proceedings (must follow the LREC 2026 Author Kit)
Non-archival contributions (up to 4 pages) – research communications, work in progress, manifestos, etc. (presented at the workshop but not included in the proceedings)
More information: https://nlp4ecology2026.di.unito.it/
Contact: nlp4ecology.workshop@gmail.com
We warmly encourage submissions and look forward to advancing research at the intersection of language, AI, and ecological transformation.
Best regards, NLP4Ecology 2026 Organizers