Archival Long Papers
Up to 8 pages plus unlimited references; new work or previously ARR-reviewed; double-anonymous review; published in ACL Anthology.
NLP/CORE Unranked
Accepted Paper Track 2026
PlurVA-LLM Workshop
The PlurVA-LLM 2026 Workshop, held in conjunction with AACL-IJCNLP 2026 in Hengqin, China, is the first workshop dedicated to pluralistic value alignment in large language models. It brings together researchers from NLP, AI safety, social science, and philosophy to address how LLMs can recognize, reason about, and adapt to diverse cultural and societal values across multilingual and multicultural contexts, including China, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
September 16, 2026
AoE
Workshop timeline
Submission and decisions
Full paperKey deadline
September 16, 2026 · AoE
Paper fit
Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Archival Short Papers
Up to 4 pages plus unlimited references; new work or previously ARR-reviewed; double-anonymous review; published in ACL Anthology.
Non-archival Extended Abstracts
2–4 pages plus up to 2 pages of references; suitable for position papers or early-stage work; double-anonymous review; not published in ACL Anthology.
Non-archival Previously Published Work
Work already accepted or published elsewhere; no page limit; no anonymization required; includes venue/journal info and archived link; not published in ACL Anthology.
ARR-Reviewed Papers
Papers previously reviewed through ACL Rolling Review (ARR); authors may choose archival or non-archival track; ARR meta-reviews considered in decision.
Research areas in scope
01
Topics of Interest
Theoretical foundations and formalizations of pluralistic value alignmentAlignment methods for pluralistic values in LLMsBenchmarks and evaluation protocols for pluralistic value alignmentHuman-AI collaboration for constructing and curating value-sensitive datasetsInterpretability and analysis of value alignment in LLMsPluralistic value alignment in downstream applications and real-world deploymentMultilingual, multicultural, and low-resource perspectives on value alignmentPluralistic value alignment in multimodal models and systems
Policies worth checking twice
- Dual submission is permitted: papers under review at other venues may be submitted, provided this is disclosed at submission.
- If a paper is accepted both at PlurVA-LLM and another venue, authors may choose to move it to the non-archival track upon acceptance.
- Archival submissions require double-anonymous review.
- Non-archival previously published work does not require anonymization.
- Archival papers may use one additional page in the camera-ready version.
- Previously published work is not eligible for the archival track.
- ARR-reviewed papers must have received meta-reviews by October 11th, 2026, to be eligible.
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026