Natural Language Processing has seen impressive gains in recent years. This research includes the demonstration by NLP models to have turned into useful technologies with improved capabilities, measured in terms of how well they match human behavior captured in web-scale language data or through annotations. However, human behavior is inherently shaped by the cultural contexts humans are embedded in, the values and beliefs they hold, and the social practices they follow, part of which will be reflected in the data used to train NLP models, and the behavior these NLP models exhibit. Not accounting for this factor could cause incongruencies and misalignments between the cultural contexts that underpin the NLP model development process and the multi-cultural ecosystems they are expected to operate in. These misalignments may result in various harms, including barriers to those from under-represented cultures, violating cultural norms and values, and erasure of cultural knowledge.
While recent work in the field has started to acknowledge this issue, it is important to build a long-term research agenda for the NLP community around (1) deeper understanding of how global cultures and NLP technologies intersect, in a way that goes beyond multi-lingual and cross-lingual research, (2) how to detect, measure, and attempt to mitigate potential biases and harms in NLP technology in ways that reflect local cultures and values, and (3) how to build more cross-culturally competent NLP systems. This agenda requires looking beyond the NLP community, bringing in multi-disciplinary expertise to shape the inquiries in this important area.
We propose this workshop as a way to bring together the growing number of NLP researchers interested in this topic, along with a community of scholars with multi-disciplinary expertise spanning linguistics, social sciences, and cultural anthropology. Our aim is to build this important inquiry within NLP on a solid basis of cultural theories from social sciences. To this end, the workshop program will focus on the following themes: Inclusivity and Representation of cultures in NLP, Cultural harms of NLP technologies, and Culture Sensitive lens on Social Biases and Harms in NLP. We invite papers on topics including the following (but not limited to):
Requirements for Direct Submission: Both short papers and long papers are welcome, and must follow all of the ACL paper submission requirements.
Submission Link:
| Event | Date |
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| Full peer-review (Archival and Non-archival) | Submission deadline: |
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| Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 | |
| Already peer-reviewed through ARR | Last ARR submission deadline: January 5, 2026 |
| Commitment deadline: April 10, 2026 | |
| Notification of acceptance: |
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| Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 2026 | |
| Already accepted/published (Non-archival) | Submission deadline: May 18, 2026 |
| Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2026 | |
| Workshop | Registration: TBA (Early registration deadline: TBA) |
| Workshop: July 4, 2026 |
All deadlines are 23:59 UTC -12h (anywhere on earth) unless stated otherwise.
Staff Research Scientist
Google Research
Senior Research Scientist
Google Research
Associate Professor
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Assistant Professor
University of Copenhagen
Postdoc Researcher
University of Tübingen
Postdoc Researcher
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
PhD Student
University of British Columbia
PhD Student
LMU Munich
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This is our smallest package and is an excellent way to first explore the C3NLP community and learn more about our exciting programme of research. With all packages, you are able to meet with the Workshop organisers and find out more about how to position your company within C3NLP, which can be particularly useful for first-time sponsors.
Annotation as Cultural Interpretation: Rethinking Data Labeling in NLP
Somatic in the East, Psychological in the West?: A Clinically-Grounded Evaluation of Cross-Cultural Depression Symptoms in LLMs
GCCLA: Graph-Conditioned Cross-Lingual Adaptation of Large Language Models Under Extreme Data Scarcity (A Case Study in Tigrigna)
LLM-Adapted Colombian Spanish Lexicography: Proficiency Control, Hallucination, and Cultural Distortion
Soft Prompts for Adapting LLMs to Cultural Commonsense Knowledge
The Mirage of Diversity: Unmasking the Cultural Vocabulary Ceiling in LLMs
The American Palimpsest: Quantifying South Asian English Dialect Erasure in LLMs
Toward Culturally Grounded Natural Language Processing
TabletCraft: Bridging a 4,000-Year Cultural Gap with Bidirectional Akkadian NMT and Cuneiform Rendering
Lost in Translation? How Language Shapes Responsibility Attribution in Large Language Models
Ontology-oriented lexico-semantic modeling and neural classification of Chinese chéngyǔ: A culture-aware NLP
Sorry, Can't Help You: How Large Language Models Judge Failures to Help Across Languages
Does Reasoning Kill the Joke? Long-Context Humor Understanding in Hindi
One Style Fits All? Cultural Values Embedded in Conversational AI via a People-Pleasing Lens
Beyond Monolithic Culture: Evaluating Understandability of Online Text Across Cultural Dimensions
Beyond WEIRD Data: A Sociotechnical Framework for Culturally Responsive AI in Mental Health
Adaptive Data Collection for Latin-American Community-sourced Evaluation of Stereotypes (LACES)
Indigenous Inheritances: Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Wildfire Mitigation
Modeling Cultural and Subcultural Variation in Code-Switched Discourse with Topic Annotation
The Language of Bargaining: Linguistic Effects in LLM Negotiations
Cultural Markers and Narrative Homogeneity in AI-Generated Stories
Let’s Talk, Not Type: An Oral-First Multi-Agent Architecture for Guaraní
Culture Affordance Atlas: Reconciling Object Diversity Through Functional Mapping
Cross-Cultural Value Awareness in Large Vision-Language Models
VideoNorms: Benchmarking Cultural Norm Understanding of Video Language Models
Steering LLMs for Culturally Localized Generation
Cultural Mirrors, Distorted Reflections: How Language and Name Scripts Shape Ethnic Hierarchies in Western and Chinese LLMs
Beyond 'One Language, One Script': Quantifying Orthographic Bias in Multilingual VLMs with PuMVR
Are Vision Language Models Cross-Cultural Theory of Mind Reasoners?
Reheat Nachos for Dinner? Evaluating AI Support for Cross-Cultural Communication of Neologisms.
SAFARI: A Community-Engaged Approach and Dataset of Stereotype Resources in the Sub-Saharan African Context
Carefully Considering Culture: Analyzing LLM Alignment in Single- and Multi-Cultural Settings using Cultural Consensus Theory
Check out the proceedings from previous years!
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