Call for Contributions

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.

Submission Guidelines

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.

Page limit applies to the main content of the papers. Section including limitation, ethical considerations, acknowledgements, references and appendices do not count toward this limit.

All submissions have to be made through the following Openreview link

[IMPORTANT] Authors should be aware of OpenReview’s moderation policy for newly created profiles:

  • New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks.
  • New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically.

Camera Ready Version

Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content to address reviewers’ comments.

Workshop Proceedings

The workshop proceedings will be published at https://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/. Each paper will receive a unique DOI.

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).