NLP for Positive Impact Workshop Opens at EMNLP 2026 in Budapest
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- The NLP for Positive Impact workshop runs October 28, 2026, in Room G7-8 at EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Sixty-five papers were accepted, with keynotes from Barbara Plank, Lillian Lee, Maria Antoniak, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Gary Kazantsev, and Sophia Ananiadou.
- A closing panel asks how to measure the social impact of AI and NLP, chaired by organizers drawn from Northeastern, Michigan, TUM, UCLA, Dataminr, CMU, Penn State, and USC.
The NLP for Positive Impact workshop convenes today, October 28, 2026, in Room G7-8 at EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, with 65 accepted papers and a closing panel titled "How can we measure the social impact of AI and NLP?"
The workshop program lists Barbara Plank delivering "Beyond the Standard: Embracing Language Variation for Inclusive NLP," Lillian Lee on "Key moments in consequential conversations," and Sophia Ananiadou on "Beyond accuracy: emotion, misinformation and cultural reasoning." Gary Kazantsev gives "Responsible NLP in High-Stakes Domains."
Accepted work spans "Reading Between the Signs: Predicting Future Suicidal Ideation from Adolescent Social Media Texts," "Conjoint Auditing: A Framework for Measuring the Social Impact of LLM Deployment," and "Hate Speech as a Conflict-Period Marker: Evidence from Arabic Telegram in Sudan."
The organizing committee draws from Northeastern, Michigan, TU Munich, UCLA, Dataminr, Carnegie Mellon, Penn State, and USC, with a steering committee of Rada Mihalcea (Michigan), Joel Tetreault (Dataminr), and Zhijing Jin (Toronto).
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