StereACuLT 2026 will be co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, California. The workshop is scheduled for July 3, 2026. ACL 2026 runs from July 2–7, 2026, with workshops on July 3–4, 2026.
**Workshop Description**
The 1st Workshop on Stereotypes Across Cultures in Language Technologies (StereACuLT) aims to broaden and deepen the study of stereotypes in language technologies by foregrounding cultural context. The workshop is motivated by the persistent challenge of stereotypes encoded in language representations, from static embeddings to modern transformer-based models. Existing resources for measuring and mitigating such biases have largely been English-centric, which limits their validity in multilingual and multicultural settings. StereACuLT seeks to accelerate principled, transparent, and replicable approaches for defining, localizing, evaluating, and mitigating stereotypes across cultures, with attention to linguistic, social, and geopolitical variation.
**Scope and Topics**
We invite submissions to StereACuLT: Stereotypes Across Cultures in Language Technologies. The workshop brings together researchers and practitioners interested in the ethical, social, and safety implications of language technologies in multicultural deployment settings.
We welcome work on topics including:
culturally grounded definitions and taxonomies of stereotypes, including within-language cross-country contrasts and diaspora versus local perspectives;
measurement protocols for bias localization, counterfactual evaluation, robustness under cultural shift, and multilingual or multimodal settings;
mitigation methods at the representation, decoding, policy, or alignment level, including analysis of side effects and tradeoffs;
culturally sensitive data practices, including elicitation, annotation, documentation of annotator backgrounds, compensation, and wellbeing;
red-teaming strategies for cross-regional safety, culture-conditioned prompting, and artifact analysis;
application studies on safety and localization for assistants, education, health, and other public-facing systems in diverse regions.
**Types of Submissions**
We welcome empirical, methodological, and conceptual contributions that help build a shared understanding of how stereotypes manifest across cultures and how language technologies can be responsibly designed, evaluated, and deployed in global settings. The workshop welcomes a broad spectrum of contributions, including:
* position papers;
* datasets and benchmarks;
* systems reports;
* ablations;
* negative results (when well-supported);
**Invited Speakers**
Diyi Yang (Stanford University)
**Important Dates**
Paper submission deadline is extended.
Submission deadline: May 11, 2026
Notification of acceptance: June 3, 2026
Camera-ready papers due: June 14, 2026
Workshop date: July 3, 2026
All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 (Anywhere on Earth). The workshop will be hybrid, allowing both in-person and virtual presentations.
**Workshop Submissions**
Submissions should be made via OpenReview:
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2026/Workshop/StereACuLT
**Workshop Organizers**
Weicheng Ma (Oakland University)
Soroush Vosoughi (Dartmouth College)
Nabeel Gillani (Northeastern University)
Rolando Coto-Solano (Dartmouth College)
**Contact**
For questions, please contact: stereacult2026workshop [at] gmail.com