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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