# CfP: NLPercep: The First Workshop on Centering Social Perception in
Natural Language Processing
The First Workshop on Centering Social Perception in Natural Language
Processing (NLPercep’26) will be co-located with the International AAAI
Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’26) and will take place on
Tuesday, May 26, 2026 in *Los Angeles, California, USA.
**Deadline for paper submission: March 10, 2026**
Social perception plays a central role in how language is interpreted:
readers form impressions about intent, politeness, credibility,
identity, and more from subtle linguistic cues. However, most NLP
systems model these phenomena using surface-level proxies (e.g., fixed
labels for “toxicity,” “politeness,” or “demographic information”),
often treating socially grounded judgments as fixed properties of text.
As a result, they can blur the distinction between what a text is
intended to convey and how it is perceived in context, limiting our
ability to build systems that reflect how people interpret language
across contexts and communities.
NLPercep’26 aims to bridge this gap by bringing together researchers
from NLP, computational social science, sociolinguistics, psychology,
and related fields to study how language is perceived and not just what
it encodes. The workshop places particular emphasis on the role of
social perception in the era of large language models (LLMs) and
evolving communication norms.
We invite interdisciplinary contributions that advance theoretical
grounding, computational modeling, and empirical understanding of social
perception in language. We welcome submissions on topics including, but
not restricted to, the following:
- self-perception, identity, and self-expression in language;
- social group perception, stereotypes, and bias;
- sociolinguistic perception and language attitude;
- social norms, moral values, and evaluative judgments;
- computational and NLP approaches to social perception;
- large language models (LLMs) and social perception.
**Submission types**
We invite the following types of submissions:
Archival:
- Long papers (5 to 8 pages) that present original research, from
preliminary findings to established contributions, including theory,
experiments, or applications.
- Short papers (up to 4 pages) that introduce emerging ideas, work in
progress, or early-stage research with clear significance.
Non-archival:
- Extended Abstracts (up to 2 pages)that present ongoing work, position
papers, previously published work, or research projects. Abstracts can
be submitted either for inclusion in the proceedings (archival) or as
non-archival contributions.
All papers must follow the AAAI two-column, camera-ready style, for US
Letter (8.5" x 11") paper (available templates: AAAI 2025 Author Kit on
Overleaf or AAAI 2025 Author Kit.zip [Word and LaTeX]). The review
process will be double-blind. Please anonymize your papers by removing
identifying information such as author names, affiliations, and funding
details.
**Important Dates**
Paper submission deadline: March 10, 2026
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2026
Camera ready: May 15, 2026
NLPercep Workshop day: May 26, 2026
Note: All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (anywhere on earth).
**Organizers**
Hongyu Chen, University of Stuttgart
Aswathy Velutharambath, University of Stuttgart
Amelie Wührl, IT University of Copenhagen
Sofie Labat, Ghent University, Harvard University
Lindsay Goolsby, University of Denver
Aidan Combs, The Ohio State University
Agnieszka Faleńska, University of Stuttgart
Roman Klinger, University of Bamberg
**Website and Contact**
For further information and updates, visit the NLPercep website:
https://nlpercep.github.io/workshop/
If you have any questions, please contact:
[email protected]
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