Papers
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LUHME 2026
3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era
LUHME 2026 is the 3rd workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era, held as part of EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary. It focuses on how meaning is represented, inferred, and negotiated in human-machine interactions, emphasizing logic-aware, pragmatics-sensitive, and socially grounded approaches to language understanding in NLP, with a strong interest in interpretability, trust, and ethical implications of LLMs.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
July 18, 2026
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Workshop timeline
Submission and decisions
Full paperKey deadline
July 18, 2026 · AoE
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Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Research areas in scope
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Topics of Interest
Language understanding in LLMsLanguage groundingAI-mediated communication in high-stakes domains (law, health, finance, governance)Psycholinguistic approaches to LUDiscourse, pragmatics and LUIntent detectionComputational treatment of speech acts, dialogue, and communicative intentions in interactionConversation analysis, narrative progression, and argumentationTurn-taking, repair, and alignment in human–AI interactionEvaluation of LUHuman vs. machine LUMachine translation/interpreting and LUMultimodality and LUSocio-cultural aspects in LUEffects and risks of language misunderstandingManifestations of language (mis)understandingNLU and toxic contentEthical issues in LUDistributional semantics and LULinguistic theory and LU by machinesLinguistic, world, and commonsense knowledge in LURole of language professionals in the LLM eraUnderstanding language and explainable AIUse of LLMs in generating, analysing or evaluating linguistic data
Policies worth checking twice
- Papers must be submitted by 30 June 2026.
- Authors must commit to ARR (Association for Computational Linguistics Reviewing Platform) by 21 August 2026.
- Notification of acceptance is provided by 31 August 2026.
- Camera-ready papers are due by 10 September 2026.
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026