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Up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices; can be archival or non-archival.
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PANDORA 2026
First workshop on Pluralistic AI & NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (Direct Submission)
The 1st PANDORA Workshop, held in conjunction with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, focuses on pluralistic AI and NLP by addressing how to design, train, evaluate, and govern language technologies that account for diverse human judgments, values, and social contexts. It challenges the traditional assumption of a single 'correct' answer in NLP and promotes methods that represent and reason over conflicting viewpoints, particularly in alignment, evaluation, and data collection.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
August 8, 2026
AoE
Workshop timeline
Submission and decisions
Full paperKey deadline
August 8, 2026 · AoE
Paper fit
Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Short Papers
Up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices; can be archival or non-archival.
Extended Abstracts
Up to 2 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices; intended for non-archival contributions such as work in progress or emerging ideas.
Reflections & Provocations
Short, well-argued pieces offering a critique, viewpoint, or provocative perspective on pluralism in NLP and AI; non-archival.
Research areas in scope
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Core Research Areas
Human label variation and perspectivist NLPNon-aggregated annotation and disagreement-aware data collectionAggregation and representation of annotator disagreementAnnotator-aware, group-aware, and uncertainty-aware modelsPluralistic AI alignment and diverse human valuesMulti-objective and preference-conditioned alignmentDisagreement-aware post-training and learning objectivesPluralism-aware evaluation frameworks and metricsCalibration, uncertainty, fairness, and inclusivity in evaluationDecision policies under pluralism: abstention, deferral, personalization, and multiple outputsParticipatory design and human-centered approaches to pluralistic AIGovernance, policy, and normative analysis of alignment under disagreementApplications and case studies in moderation, education, health, multilingual, cross-cultural, and multimodal systems
Policies worth checking twice
- Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review.
- Submissions must adhere to official ACL style templates in two-column format and be submitted as PDFs.
- Supplementary material may be included only in the appendix, and reviewers are not required to review it.
- For archival submissions, papers must not be under review elsewhere or substantially overlap with published or under-review work.
- Non-archival submissions may include previously published work, work in progress, or emerging ideas, provided they are clearly marked as non-archival.
- PANDORA accepts ACL Rolling Review (ARR) commitments, using existing ARR reviews and meta-reviews if aligned with the workshop scope.
- All submissions must be fully self-contained.
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026