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:

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Regular papers (4–8 pages) – research papers or position papers, archival, included in the proceedings (must follow the LREC 2026 Author Kit)

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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