LLMs4SSH: Shaping Multilingual, Multimodal AI for the Social Sciences and Humanities
Workshop at LREC 2026 – 11 May 2026
📍 Location: LREC 2026, Mallorca, Spain
🗓 Date: 11 May 2026
🌐 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ssh-lrec2026/home
Description
Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly advancing in terms of multilinguality, multimodality, reasoning, and agentic capabilities. While these developments have transformed language and data processing, their potential remains insufficiently aligned with the specific research needs, methodologies, and epistemic values of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).
The LLMs4SSH workshop aims to bridge the gap between Language Technologies (LT) and SSH, bringing together researchers from AI, NLP, Digital Humanities, linguistics, social sciences, cultural heritage, and related fields. The workshop will provide a forum to explore how multilingual, multimodal, and reasoning-oriented LLMs can support SSH research tasks, while critically examining their methodological, ethical, and societal implications.
Topics
We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to:
Multilinguality and Cultural Diversity
Multilingual LLMs for low-resource and underrepresented languages
Cross-lingual transfer and cultural adaptation
Bias, fairness, and inclusivity
Translation, code-switching, and cross-cultural communication
Multimodality in SSH Research
Integration of text, image, audio, and speech modalities
LLMs for multimodal archives, museum collections, and heritage data
Generative and interpretive multimodal applications in humanities research
Reasoning and Agentic LLMs
Reasoning and interpretive capacities for SSH tasks (e.g. argumentation, causality, hermeneutics)
Agentic LLMs as autonomous or collaborative research assistants
Tool use, planning, and hypothesis generation
Epistemological and ethical implications of reasoning and agency
Methodologies and Evaluation
SSH-oriented datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation metrics
Explainability, transparency, and reproducibility
Human–AI co-creation and qualitative evaluation methods
Comparative studies across languages, domains, and modalities
Applications in SSH Domains
Digital humanities and cultural analytics
Political science, sociology, and media studies
History, philosophy, law, psychology, education, and ethics
FAIR, Ethics, and Governance
Responsible and participatory design of LLMs
Ethical challenges in data use, authorship, and accountability
Policy frameworks for open and inclusive AI infrastructures
Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Infrastructure
Co-design of tools and workflows between LT and SSH
Integration of LLMs into research infrastructures and curricula
Open science initiatives and community building
Submission Types
We welcome:
Short research papers
Position papers
Case studies
Posters and demos
Submission Information
Submissions must be made electronically through the START Conference Manager (Softconf) system:
🔗 Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LLMs4SSH
All submissions should follow the official LREC 2026 workshop guidelines regarding format, length, and anonymity. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and details regarding proceedings publication will be announced on the workshop website.
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: 23 February 2026
Review Period: 2–23 March 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 30 March 2026
Workshop Date: 11 May 2026
Workshop Format
The full-day workshop will include:
An invited keynote from the Language Technologies community
Oral paper sessions on foundations, methodologies, and applications
Poster and demo sessions
Breakout groups and roundtable discussions
A closing panel to summarize insights and outline future research directions
Hybrid participation options will be available to foster inclusivity.
Organizing committee
Jeremy Barnes (HiTZ Center, EHU)
Elena Battaner (URJC)
Joanna Blochowiak (University of Zurich)
Cristina Grisot (University of Zurich)
Arturo Montejo-Ráez (University of Jaén)
Nikola Ljubešić (Jožef Stefan Institute)
Maciej Piasecki (Wrocław University of Science and Technology)
German Rigau (HiTZ Center, EHU)
Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb)
Friedel Wolff (SADiLaR, North-West University)
Diversity and Inclusion
The workshop actively supports:
Underrepresented languages and research communities
Geographic and gender diversity
Interdisciplinary collaboration across AI, LT, and SSH
Universidad de Jaén Arturo Montejo Ráez
Profesor Titular de Universidad | Associated Professor (Tenured)
amontejo@ujaen.es
Universidad de Jaén
Departamento de Informática, A3-114
Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 – Jaén (Spain)
+34 953 212 882
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8643-2714
Researcher ID: D-3387-2009
SINAI Research Group
Universidad de Jaén
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