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[1] From: Marco Antonio Stranisci <marcoantonio.stranisci@unito.it>
Subject: [DEADLINE EXTENSION] 3rd CfP: Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI) (111)
[2] From: Rebecca Roach <r.roach@bham.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: Decoding Hall (48)
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Date: 2026-02-10 06:24:08+00:00
From: Marco Antonio Stranisci <marcoantonio.stranisci@unito.it>
Subject: [DEADLINE EXTENSION] 3rd CfP: Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI)
Joint Call for Papers
Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study
Social Interactions (NLPSI)
Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
Workshop day: May 12, 2026
Deadline for paper submission: February 16, 2026 February 23, 2026
Website: https://socon-nlpsi.github.io
Contact: socon-nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc@uni-bamberg.de
OVERVIEW
Natural Language Processing has evolved significantly, enabling the
modeling of high-level aspects of human communication. Relevant topics
include pragmatics, social dynamics, and the integration of social
context to better understand communicative intent. The SoCon and NLPSI
workshops share a focus on the social dimensions of communication, while
addressing distinct challenges.
The Social Context Workshop explores how context shapes language use,
seeking interdisciplinary collaboration across NLP, Pragmatics,
Sociolinguistics, and Sociology. It aims to develop shared terminology
and promote community-centered approaches as alternatives to traditional
crowdsourcing.
The NLPSI Workshop focuses on psychological processes shaping human
communication, including how individuals perceive, process, and produce
language. It welcomes interdisciplinary work from NLP, Social
Psychology, and Affective Computing, with an emphasis on large-scale
studies.
TOPICS
This joint Call for Papers contains two tracks, SoCon and NLPSI. Authors
should choose the track that best matches their contribution.
SoCon Track
"Towards Responsibly Infusing NLP with Social Context, Community
Meanings, and Pragmatics Through Interdisciplinary NLP Efforts."
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Interdisciplinary methods for modeling context, integrating NLP with
pragmatics and social sciences
* Studying social communities and how to engage with communities of
practice and speech communities
* Ethical challenges in resource creation, including participatory
design involving relevant communities
* Explaining behaviors in social interactions through models of social
attitudes shaped by backgrounds, contexts, and triggering events
NLPSI Track
"Bridging the gap between NLP and psychological insights to foster a
deeper understanding of social interactions."
Topics include, but are not limited to:
*Psychological constructs (beliefs, motives, feelings, affect, personality)
*Psychological studies, especially those focused on interaction
*Communication patterns such as empathy, persuasion, and conflict resolution
*The role of emotions in interpersonal communication, such as emotion
contagion and interpersonal emotion regulation
SUBMISSION TYPES
* Long papers (up to 8 pages) presenting original research, from
preliminary to established contributions
* Short papers (up to 4 pages) presenting emerging ideas or early-stage
research
* Extended abstracts(non-archival, up to 2 pages): a new format designed
to be inclusive of researchers from fields where conference papers are
not standard (e.g., Social Sciences). Extended abstracts are not
included in conference proceedings.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions will be double-blind reviewed.
Papers must follow the LREC templates (LaTeX, Word, Open Office, Overleaf).
Page limits apply only to the main content; limitations, ethics,
acknowledgements, references, and appendices do not count.
Submission via Softconf: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SoConNLPSI/
Authors must indicate resources used or created (data, tools,
technologies, evaluation kits). ELRA encourages sharing of language
resources to support reuse and replicability. Authors must follow
ethical AI research policies and include an ethics statement.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The workshop follows LREC’s attendance policy.
It will be a full-day hybrid event with keynotes and paper presentations
(oral and lightning talks).
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: February 16, 2026 February 23, 2026
Notification of acceptance: March 23, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: March 30, 2026
Workshop day: May 12, 2026
ORGANIZERS
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Date: 2026-02-09 10:05:05+00:00
From: Rebecca Roach <r.roach@bham.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: Decoding Hall
Decoding Hall: A Symposium
June 12, 2026,
The Exchange, University of Birmingham
Call for Papers
More than 50 years after Stuart Hall authored his discussion paper, ‘Encoding
and Decoding in the Television Discourse’
<https://epapers.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/2962/> (1973), the model he
proposed remains a touchstone for media and communications scholars. Yet the
media under discussion today is rarely television and, as Hall observed, his
model ‘suggests an approach; it opens up new questions. It maps the terrain. But
it's a model which has to be worked with and developed and changed’ (Cruz &
Lewis, 1989).
Decoding Hall’ is a one-day symposium celebrating the launch of Hall’s digital
archive–drawing on papers held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of
Birmingham–while also inviting reflection on the contemporary relevance of
Hall’s model. As Hall’s paper archive is transformed via digital mediation, how
might we use ‘Encoding and Decoding’ to map our current digital terrain? Or to
approach generative AI technologies critically? How might we have to develop and
change Hall’s model? What work must we as scholars do and what insights might
emerge?
This CFP invites contributions that engage with Hall’s work and contemporary
media and technology, addressing:
* specific media and technologies: such as AI, social media, or datasets
* topics including: racialised data, global politics, algorithmic bias, or
ideology in the production, consumption, representation, and regulation of new
media
* methods and approaches, including: digitising and mediating Black
archives; using critical data, ethics, critical code, or cultural AI approaches;
or the application of cultural studies approaches to the analysis of new media,
technologies and practices.
* Critical-creative responses to Hall’s digital archive or model (including
its own digital mediations).
Please send a short abstract (200-300 words) outlining your proposed
contribution, along with your name and any affiliation to Katy Parsons
(k.parsons@bham.ac.uk<mailto:k.parsons@bham.ac.uk>) by 20 March 2026. We welcome
formal papers, demos, posters, and non-traditional formats; we hope to produce a
collection of work resulting from the day.
The symposium is hosted by the Stuart Hall Archive
Project<https://stuarthallarchive.bham.ac.uk/> at the University of Birmingham,
UK. Any questions, please contact Katy Parsons or Rebecca Roach
(r.roach@bham.ac.uk<mailto:r.roach@bham.ac.uk>).
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