Dear all,
We are organizing a workshop co-located with LREC 2026 on Identity Aware
NLP. The details are as follows:
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Ethical and Technical Challenges for Identity-Aware NLP
Workshop at LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 11-16, 2026
https://identity-aware-ai.github.io/
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*Workshop Theme:* What makes each of us unique, and which ethical and
technical challenges does this imply?
*OVERVIEW*
What makes us unique? Language (and thus the automatic processing of it)
is about people and what they mean. However, current practice relies on
the assumptions that the involved humans are all the same, and that if
enough data (and compute power) is present, the resulting
generalizations will be robust enough and represent the majority.
This approach often harms marginalized communities and ignores the
notion of identity in models and systems. Our interdisciplinary workshop
aims to raise the question of "what makes each of us unique?" to the NLP
community.
*WORKSHOP GOALS*
- The development of a shared and interdisciplinary understanding of
identities and how identity is treated in AI
- The development of new methods that push the effective, fair, and
inclusive treatment of individuals in AI to the next level
*TOPICS OF INTEREST*
We invite submissions on the following topics:
*Modeling subjective phenomena and disagreement: *Personalization and
perspectivist methods that challenge one-size-fits-all approaches by
leveraging disaggregated data and annotator metadata. Methods that learn
from disagreements rather than forcing consensus that erases unique
perspectives.
*Auditing and evaluating identity representation:* Techniques to measure
how well models represent diverse identities, diagnose failures in
capturing marginalized perspectives, and assess whether systems treat
all identities equitably. Frameworks for identity-aware performance
evaluation beyond aggregate metrics.
*Bias detection and fairness interventions: *Methods to identify when
models fail marginalized groups due to over-generalization, and
techniques to mitigate such harms while preserving model utility.
*Identity representation in LLMs: *How language models encode (or erase)
diverse identities, embody particular perspectives, and either reproduce
or challenge stereotypes. Measuring LLMs' capacity for reasoning about
identities beyond majority groups.
*Socio-political applications: *Modeling polarization, opinion
formation, and deliberation in ways that account for identity rather
than assuming homogeneous populations. How identity-aware approaches
improve accuracy for politically sensitive tasks.
*Methodological foundations from social sciences:* Best practices from
psychology and survey science for measuring identity constructs (values,
morals, narratives). Addressing challenges of using LLMs to model
diverse populations while avoiding erasure through aggregation.
*Accountability and responsible development: *Ethical responsibilities
when building systems that represent (or exclude) identities. Making AI
development processes accountable to marginalized communities most
affected by over-generalization.
*Identity-aware and community informed evaluation and auditing*:
Community informed bias evaluation and auditing. Human evaluation of
LLMs and other AI systems in an identity-aware manner.
*SUBMISSION TYPES*
We welcome the following types of submissions:
* Long papers: 4-8 pages of content (excluding references)
* Short papers: 4-8 pages of content (excluding references)
* Non-archival submissions, student project presentations, mixed-media
submissions
For non-archival submissions, we welcome creative formats including:
- Art, poetry, music
- Blog posts
- Jupyter notebooks
- Teaching materials
- Videos
- Findings papers
- Late-breaking papers
- Extended abstracts
For creative format submissions, please submit a PDF containing:
- A summary or abstract of your work
- A link to your work (if hosted externally)
- Any additional context or documentation
*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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* All submissions will be double-blind reviewed
* Submissions should follow LREC 2026 formatting guidelines available
at: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/
* Papers must be 4-8 pages in length (excluding references)
* Papers must include ethics and limitations sections
* NO appendices are allowed (initial submission), up to 10 pages
camera-ready
* Originality and simultaneous submissions: submissions must be
original, previously unpublished work. If a paper is submitted to or
under consideration at another venue at the same time, this must be
declared at submission time. If accepted here, it must be withdrawn from
other venues; if accepted elsewhere while under review here, please
notify us promptly.
* Preprints: there is no anonymity period at LREC 2026, so authors may
post preprints at any time; however, the version submitted for review
must still be anonymized
* Language resources (optional): at submission time, authors may share
related language resources with the community; repository entries are
linked to the LRE Map and provide metadata for the resource
* Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/IdentityAwareAI
* Proceedings and presentation: accepted papers will appear in the
workshop proceedings. All accepted papers will be presented as posters.
For remote participants, we will also organize a lightning round of
short virtual presentations to accompany the posters.
*WORKSHOP FORMAT*
The workshop will be a half-day event featuring:
- Keynote speeches from leading experts in the field
- Paper presentations (oral and lightning talks)
- Participatory design activity to develop a shared interdisciplinary
vocabulary, identify current gaps in datasets for studying identity, and
design a vision for collecting new datasets
We are committed to ensuring that our workshop is accessible to all. The
workshop will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person and
virtual participation.
*IMPORTANT DATES*
All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
* Submission Deadline: February 20, 2026
* Notification of Acceptance: March 20, 2026
* Camera-Ready Deadline: March 30, 2026
* Workshop Date: May 16, 2026
*DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
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We actively encourage submissions from underrepresented communities and
countries. The workshop organizers will provide mentorship and thorough
feedback, especially to first-time authors and reviewers.
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ORGANIZERS*
Pranav A (University of Hamburg)
Valerio Basile (University of Turin)
Neele Falk (University of Stuttgart)
David Jurgens (University of Michigan)
Gabriella Lapesa (GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences &
Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf)
Anne Lauscher (University of Hamburg)
Soda Marem Lo (University of Turin)
*CONTACT*
For queries, please contact: [email protected]
Join us at Identity-Aware AI 2026 to contribute to this important
conversation!
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