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*15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity,
Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2026) – 1st Call for Papers*
*EACL’26, March 24–29, 2026, Rabat, Morocco, Half Day Workshop*
*Background and Envisaged Scope*
*Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis has become a highly developed
research area, ranging from binary classification of reviews to the
detection of complex emotion structures between entities found in
text. This field has expanded both on a practical level, finding
numerous successful applications in business, as well as on a
theoretical level, allowing researchers to explore more complex
research questions related to affective computing. Its continuing
importance is also shown by the interest it generates in other
disciplines such as Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Marketing,
Crisis Management & Digital Humanities, where it can support the
study of online interactions, group dynamics, and public discourse.*
*The aim of WASSA 2026 is to bring together researchers working on
Subjectivity, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Detection and
Classification and their applications to other NLP or real-world
tasks (e.g. public health messaging, fake news, media impact
analysis, social media mining, computational literary studies) and
researchers working on interdisciplinary aspects of affect
computation from text. We encourage the submission of long and short
research and demo papers including, but not restricted to the
following topics:*
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*Resources for subjectivity, sentiment, emotion and social media
analysis*
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*Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and
summarization*
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*Humor, Irony and Sarcasm detection*
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*Mis- and disinformation analysis and the role of affective attributes*
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*Aspect and topic-based sentiment and emotion analysis*
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*Analysis of stable traits of social media users, incl. personality
analysis and profiling*
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*Transfer learning for domain, language and genre portability of
sentiment analysis*
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*Modelling commonsense knowledge for subjectivity, sentiment or
emotion analysis*
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*Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis*
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*Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation of subjectivity and/or sentiment
analysis*
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*Application of theories from related fields to subjectivity and
sentiment analysis*
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*Multimodal emotion detection and classification*
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*Social Groups analysis and their interactions in Social Media*
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*Generation, detection, and evaluation of subjectivity, sentiment,
and emotion in NLP tasks with LLMs*
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*Risks, challenges, and ethical implications of affective uses of LLMs*
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*The role of emotions in argument mining*
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*Applications of sentiment and emotion mining*
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*Public sentiments and communication patterns of public health
emergencies.*
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*The analysis of pretrained small and large language models.*
*Finally, this year we also propose a special trackon multilinguality
and socio-cultural adaptation to lesser-resourced languages/communities. *
*In general, we particularly invite contributions from young
researchers, work on low-resource languages, multilingual methods, and
interdisciplinary work.*
*Important dates*
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*December 17, 2025: Direct submission deadline*
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*January 2, 2026: ARR submission deadline*
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*January 23, 2026: Notification of acceptance*
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*February 3, 2026: Camera Ready Papers due*
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*March 24–29, 2026: EACL with WASSA workshop on one of the days.*
*Shared tasks*
*We do not offer a shared task this year.*
*Papers*
*At WASSA 2026, we will accept three types of submissions:*
*For the regular research track we accept long& shortpapers.*
*Additionally, we accept double submissions and double commitment of ARR
reviews in parallel to WASSA and another venue. Please note that you
must immediately withdraw your paper from WASSA if you decide to publish
it elsewhere. Check with the other venue if they also allow double
submissions.*
*Longpapers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with any
number of additional pages of references. A- subset of these papers will
be presented orally.*
*Shortpapers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, with any
number of additional pages of references. Most of these papers will be
presented as posters.*
*Also this year there is an industry track, for which we accept demo
papers. Demo papersdescribe system demonstrations, ranging from early
prototypes to mature production-ready systems. Commercial sales and
marketing activities are not appropriate for this track. Demo papers may
consist of up to six (6) pages of content, these will be presented as a
poster and should include a live demonstration.*
*Submission procedure and templates*
*Submissions without reviews can be done directly through our Open
Review side
(https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/WASSA).*
*Authors who received reviews already through the ACL Rolling Review
process are invited to commit their reviewed paper to WASSA. To do so,
please go to our ARR Website and click on “ACL 2026 Workshop WASSA
Commitment Submission”. You will then need to add the title, the URL to
the ARR submission with reviews + metareview, and other information.*
*Both long and short papers must be anonymised for double-blind
reviewing, must follow the ACL Author Guidelines
<https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines>,
and must use the ACL templates
(https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). The submitting author must
have an OpenReview profile*
*Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data*
*ARR encourages the submission of these supplementary materials to
improve the reproducibility of results, and to enable authors to provide
additional information that does not fit in the paper. Supplementary
materials may include appendices, software or data. For example, pre
processing decisions, model parameters, feature templates, lengthy
proofs or derivations, pseudocode, sample system inputs/outputs, and
other details that are necessary for the exact replication of the work
described in the paper can be put into appendices. However, if the
pseudo-code or derivations or model specifications are an important part
of the contribution, or if they are important for the reviewers to
assess the technical correctness of the work, they should be a part of
the main paper, and not appear in appendices. Reviewers are not required
to consider material in appendices. Appendices should come after the
references in the submitted pdf, but do not count towards the page
limit. Software should be submitted as a single .tgz or .zip archive,
and data as a separate single .tgz or .zip archive. Supplementary
materials must be fully anonymized to preserve the two-way anonymized
reviewing policy and must not exceed 100MB.*
*Organizers*
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Jeremy Barnes, University of the Basque Country
Valentin Barriere, University of Chile
Orphée De Clercq, Ghent University
Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg
Célia Nouri, Inria and Sciences Po
Debora Nozza, Bocconi University
Pranaydeep Singh, Ghent University
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://workshop-wassa.github.io/
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Prof. Dr. Roman Klinger (he/him)
Professor for Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing
Faculty Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences (WIAI)
Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
Office: Room 02.10; Gutenbergstr. 13; 96050 Bamberg; Germany
Phone: +49 951 863 3320
Mail:[email protected]
WWW:
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/nlproc/
https://www.romanklinger.de/
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