We are delighted to invite submissions to MultiDems, the 1st Multidisciplinary Workshop on NLP for Democracies, co-located with EACL 2027 at Athens, Greece on March 9–14, 2027.
Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) create new opportunities for supporting democratic processes, from large-scale citizen consultation and deliberation to debate summarization, preference aggregation, and access to political information. At the same time, their use raises fundamental questions about fairness, diversity, political representation, transparency, and whose voices and perspectives are amplified or marginalized. The 1st Multidisciplinary Workshop on NLP for Democracies (MultiDems) aims to provide a dedicated forum for research at the intersection of NLP, political science, social science, computational social choice, and related disciplines. In particuliar, we encourage the submission of work that moves beyond predominantly US-centric, monolingual, or two-party settings and studies NLP systems in the linguistic, institutional, and political diversity of democratic systems worldwide.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
+ Social choice and computational social choice in NLP
+ Agent-in-the-loop and AI-assisted deliberation
+ Summarization or moderation of political debates, deliberations and citizen consultations
+ Preference inference and aggregation of citizens’ preferences from natural language
+ Fairness and bias in political text classification and NLP systems
+ Multilingual NLP for democratic systems, including multilingual and multi-party contexts
+ Critical evaluation of AI and NLP systems used in democratic processes
+ Representation of diverse, minority, and critical voices in AI systems
+ NLP for participatory and deliberative democracy
+ Political and parliamentary NLP
+ Argument mining and opinion aggregation in democratic settings
+ Evaluation methods and benchmarks for democratic applications of NLP
+ Human-centered and participatory approaches to AI for democracy
+ Ethical, societal, and institutional implications of deploying NLP and LLM systems in democratic contexts
MultiDems will also host an associated shared task on Text Summarization for Online Citizen Consultations. Participants will develop systems that produce concise, coherent summaries of collections of citizen proposals and associated voting data.
Direct paper submission deadline: December 23, 2026
Dates specific to the shared task:
- Data release and Opening of the Codabench competition: early November 2026
- Codabench competition submission deadline : December 3, 2026
- System-description paper submission deadline: December 23, 2026