Dear community!

EMNLP2026 main conference deadline has passed – time to submit to workshops!

We would like to promote the second call for papers for our 5th Workshop on NLP 
for Positive Impact co-located at EMNLP 2026!

Workshop website:  
https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact<https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact>

Call for papers: 
https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact/call-for-papers-2026


Submission methods: OpenReview both direct submissions and ARR May Cycle 
commitment.
We also accept non-archival submissions.


Important dates:

Direct Submissions Due: extended to July 13th, 2026 via 
https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/NLP4PI<https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/NLP4PI#tab-your-consoles>

ARR Reviewed Submissions Commitment Due: August 3rd, 2026
Notification of Acceptance (both channels): August 15th, 2026
Camera-Ready Papers Due: September 10th, 2026
Workshop Date: October 24th-29th 2026 (co-located with EMNLP 2026)

All deadlines are 11:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth)


Workshop Summary


The increasing adoption of language-oriented AI systems offers unprecedented 
opportunities for positive societal impact. NLP technologies have matured to 
the point where they can meaningfully contribute to addressing global 
challenges like poverty, hunger, healthcare, education, inequality, COVID-19, 
and climate change, aligning with the UN sustainability goals.

This workshop aims to advance innovative NLP research that benefits society, 
emphasizing responsible methods and impactful applications. We welcome 
submissions in areas including, but not limited to:

  *   Grounding NLP in Real-World Impact: Beyond improving model performance, 
how can NLP systems be directly tied to social outcomes? This could include 
case studies of real-world deployments or strategies for better deployment and 
maintenance practices.

  *   Underexplored Applications: While NLP for healthcare and mental 
well-being is well-established, we encourage research tackling overlooked areas 
such as poverty, hunger, energy, and climate change.

  *   Interdisciplinary Collaborations: We highly value work that integrates 
insights from other fields, such as social science, political science, 
economics, philanthropy, and HCI, and we encourage submissions of case studies 
or examples that highlight such collaborations.

Special Theme: Measuring the Societal Impact of AI and NLP

This year we would like to find an answer to the question: How can we measure 
the social impact of AI and NLP? With even the bigger raise of opportunities of 
AI and language technologies, we would like to understand how it influences 
society and if in positive manners. Position, philosophical-grounded, and new 
evaluation framework suggestion papers are very much welcomed to enhance the 
discussion!


Papers Format

Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission 
requirements https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-information, 
including: Long Papers <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#long-papers> (8 pages) 
and Short Papers (4 pages).



Organizers

Katherine Atwell (Northeastern University)
Angana Borah (University of Michigan)
Dr. Daryna Dementieva (Technical University of Munich)
Prof Elisa Kreiss (University of California)
Dr. Neema Kotonya (Dataminr)
Jiarui Liu (Carnegie Mellon University)
Liz Olson (Dataminr)
Ruyuan Wan (Pennsylvania State University)
Prof Jieyu Zhao (University of Southern California)

Steering Committee

Prof Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan)
Dr. Joel Tetreault (Dataminr)
Dr. Zhijing Jin (University of Toronto)

Contact Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>


All positive regards,

Daryna Dementieva

On behalf of NLP4PI Workshop Organizers
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