######################################################################################################### 2nd Call for papers: Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS) @ KONVENS 2026 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cpss2026konvens/home-page #########################################################################################################
This is the 6th edition of the workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS), co-located with the KONVENS conference. Our main goal is to bring together researchers and ideas from computational linguistics/NLP and the text-as-data community from political and social science, to foster collaboration and catalyze further interdisciplinary research efforts between these communities.
### Special Theme: Human Perspectives and LLMs #### We specifically invite submissions on this year’s special theme, focusing on the highly debated issue of simulation of human perspectives with LLMs.
### General topics ### In addition to the special theme, we also welcome submissions on the following general topics to CPSS: ▪ Modeling complex social constructs (e.g. populism, polarization, identity) with NLP methods ▪ Political and social bias in language models ▪ Modeling political communication with NLP (e.g. topic classification, position measurement) ▪ Mining policy debates from heterogeneous textual sources ▪ Methodological insights in interdisciplinary collaboration: workflows, challenges, best practices ▪ NLP support to understand and support democratic decision making ▪ Resources and tools for Political/Social Science research ▪ Validation of results beyond the train-dev-test paradigm of NLP and data science. ▪ Data quality in human and synthetic data ▪ Data leakage and contamination, especially in LLMs ▪ New ways to collect data, i.e., dataset donation ▪ Open science and reproducibility within the CPSS research ▪ and many more ...
### PhD Forum ### CPSS will feature a dedicated PhD Forum inviting submissions from doctoral researchers who wish to present their thesis topic. We warmly welcome contributions from PhD students at all stages of their doctorate, from those who are just beginning to develop their project to those with more advanced work in progress.
### Submission ### We solicit three types of submissions: ▪ archival papers describing original and unpublished work (long papers: max. 8 pages, references/appendix excluded; short papers: max 4 pages, references/appendix excluded). Accepted papers will be published on the ACL anthology. For the submission format, refer to the KONVENS guidelines. We will also accept ARR submissions with reviews (see below for Important Dates) ▪ non-archival papers (1-page abstracts, references excluded) describing already published research or ongoing work ▪ non-archival PhD project presentations (2-pages abstracts, references excluded) describing the idea, topic, and current state of the PhD project. The three formats will meet the need of researchers from different communities, allowing the exchange of ideas in a "get to know each other" environment which we hope will foster future collaborations.
### Important dates ### ▪ Submission deadline (direct submission, archival and non archival): July 3rd ▪ Submission deadline ARR (archival only!): July 15th ▪ Notification of acceptance: August 7th ▪ Camera ready deadline: August 15th ▪ Workshop: September 2026 (precise date to be confirmed)
### Organizers ### ▪ Dennis Assenmacher, GESIS ▪ Agnieszka Faleńska, University of Stuttgart ▪ Christopher Klamm, University of Mannheim & Cologne Center of Comparative Politics ▪ Gabriella Lapesa, GESIS & HHU Düsseldorf HHU Düsseldorf ▪ Simone Paolo Ponzetto University of Mannheim ▪ Franziska Weeber, University of Stuttgart
### Sponsorship ### We acknowledge the support of the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS).