Topic in Natural Language Processing

Language & society

68 labs at 25 universities work on language & society (part of Natural Language Processing). Most at CMU, Stanford and Michigan. 51 published in 2026.

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68 labs at 25 universities work on language & society. Most at 5, 5, 5. 51 of them published in 2026, mostly at ACL, EMNLP and AAAI. Earliest deadline: , Dec 1.

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USStanfordComputer ScienceDec 8

Diyi YangAssistant Professor of Computer Science

Studies socially aware natural language processing and human-centered language technologies.

Language & society

2026AutoLibra: Agent Metric Induction from Open-Ended Human FeedbackICLR
2026AutoMetrics: Approximate Human Judgments with Automatically Generated EvaluatorsICLR

80 T1 · 124 papers · Group size not listed

USCMULanguage Technologies InstituteDec 9

Maarten SapAssistant Professor

Studies social commonsense reasoning and the social impact and safety of language models.

Language & society
Large language models

2026"I Just Don't Want My Work Being Fed Into The AI Blender": Queer Artists on Refusing and Resisting Generative AICSCW
2026Ambig-SWE: Interactive Agents to Overcome Underspecificity in Software EngineeringICLR

51 T1 · 101 papers · 7 members · 2 alumni

SGNTUCollege of Computing and Data Science

Chunyan MiaoProfessor

Works on human-centered AI and human-AI interaction, AI ethics, and AI for health, ageing, sustainability and education.

Human-AI collaboration & trust
Accessibility, health & wellbeing
Language & society

2026"It Seems to Understand My Heart": An Empirical Study of Persona-Driven Persuasive AI Agent for Aging-in-Place in SingaporeCHI
2026A Comprehensive Survey on Multimodal Recommender Systems: Taxonomy, Evaluation, and Future DirectionsTPAMI

43 T1 · 94 papers · Group size not listed

CATorontoFaculty of InformationDec 1

Ebrahim BagheriProfessor

Studies information retrieval, social network analytics and responsible AI.

Knowledge, QA & retrieval
Language & society
Social computing & responsible AI

2026A Benchmark & Dataset for Detecting AI-Manipulated Visual Evidence in the Court SystemCIKM
2026A Large-Scale Dataset for Gender-Fair Query ReformulationsSIGIR

37 T1 · 92 papers · 13 members · 81 alumni

USGeorgia TechSchool of Interactive ComputingDec 15

Alan RitterAssociate Professor

Studies natural language processing and information extraction with minimal supervision, including from social media.

Language & society
Knowledge, QA & retrieval
Computational social science

2026Camellia: Benchmarking Cultural Biases in LLMs for Asian LanguagesEMNLP
2026Do Vision-Language Models Respect Contextual Integrity in Location Disclosure?ICLR

36 T1 · 45 papers · 10 members · 8 alumni

CNZhejiangCollege of Computer Science and TechnologyFeb 28

Yingcai WuProfessor

Heads the Interactive Data Group, working on visual analytics for urban informatics, sports and social media, and information visualization.

Time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data
Computational social science
Language & society

2026Cerebra: Aligning Implicit Knowledge in Interactive SQL AuthoringCHI
2026ChronoMantic: A Natural Language Interface for Interactive Time Series Pattern QueryUIST

32 T1 · 124 papers · Group size not listed

USUIUCSchool of Information SciencesDec 1

Dong WangProfessor

Studies human-centered and agentic AI for social sensing, including crowdsensing, misinformation detection on social media and social informatics.

Time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data
Computational social science
Language & society

2026Conflict-Aware Adaptive Alignment for LLM Hallucination MitigationICML
2026Learning Decomposed Contextual Token Representations from Pretrained and Collaborative Signals for Generative RecommendationSIGIR

27 T1 · 65 papers · 13 members · 5 alumni

USMichiganComputer Science and EngineeringDec 15

Rada MihalceaJanice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Professor, EECS – Computer Science and Engineering; Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab

Studies natural language processing and computational social science, including multimodal understanding of human behavior.

Language & society
Multimodal & grounded language
Vision-language & multimodal

2026AtlasNLP: A Country-Aware Atlas of Dataset Representation in NLPEMNLP
2026Copyright Detective: A Forensic System to Evidence LLMs Flickering Copyright Leakage RisksACL

26 T1 · 108 papers · 16 members · 102 alumni

SGNUSDepartment of Computer ScienceDec 15

Wynne HsuProvost's Chair Professor

Works on data analytics and machine learning, including AI in healthcare, retinal image analysis and social media analytics.

Computational social science
Data management & big data
Language & society

2026Dr.V : A Hierarchical Perception-Temporal-Cognition Framework to Diagnose Video Hallucination by Fine-Grained Spatial-Temporal GroundingIJCV
2026LogicReward: Incentivizing LLM Reasoning via Step-Wise Logical SupervisionICLR

26 T1 · 43 papers · 8 members · 32 alumni

CHETH ZurichComputer Science (D-INFK)

Mrinmaya SachanAssistant Professor

Leads the Language, Reasoning and Education Lab, studying reasoning in language models and NLP for education such as intelligent tutoring and automated…

Reasoning & agents
Language & society
Learning & education technology

2025Diras: Efficient llm annotation of document relevance for retrieval augmented generationNAACL
2025From Problem-Solving to Teaching Problem-Solving: Aligning LLMs with Pedagogy using Reinforcement LearningEMNLP

25 T1 · 45 papers · 11 members · 5 alumni

USStanfordComputer ScienceDec 8

Dan JurafskyReynolds Professor in Humanities, Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Computer Science Stanford University

Studies natural language processing and computational social science, including language in society.

Language & society
Computational social science

2025"The ML-SUPERB 2.0 challenge: Towards inclusive ASR benchmarking for all language varieties."Interspeech
2025Advancing science-and evidence-based AI policy.Science

23 T1 · 59 papers · 8 members · 108 alumni

USGeorgia TechSchool of Interactive ComputingDec 15

Munmun De ChoudhuryProfessor

Uses computational social science and language analysis of social media to reason about mental health and well-being.

Accessibility, health & wellbeing
Social computing & responsible AI
Language & society

2026(Re)mediators of Epistemic Injustice: Generative AI and Hermeneutic Resource Provision in Intimate Partner ViolenceIn Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI , to appear
2026Adverse Mental Health Events As a Trigger for Online Harassment: Evidence from Online Conversations of Youth Experiencing Psychiatric HospitalizationsIn Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM , to appear

19 T1 · 76 papers · 23 members · 129 alumni

USUIUCSiebel School of Computing and Data ScienceDec 1

Kevin Chen-Chuan ChangProfessor

Studies natural language processing, information retrieval and data mining for knowledge acquisition from Web and social media text.

Knowledge, QA & retrieval
Language & society
Recommendation, search & web

2026On Graph Rewiring with Motifs: A Find-and-Replace ApproachICDE
2025ERU-KG: Efficient Reference-aligned Unsupervised Keyphrase GenerationACL

18 T1 · 30 papers · Group size not listed

USStanfordGraduate School of EducationDec 8

Nick HaberAssistant Professor of Education

Builds curiosity-driven and interactive learning agents with reinforcement learning, and AI tools that support human learning.

Reinforcement learning
Language & society
Learning & education technology

20263D-GENERALIST: Vision-Language-Action Models for Crafting 3D Worlds3DV
2026Characterizing Delusional Spirals through Human-LLM Chat LogsFAccT

17 T1 · 38 papers · 8 members

USUC BerkeleyElectrical Engineering and Computer SciencesDec 1

Björn HartmannAssociate Professor

Creates user interface design tools, end-user programming environments and AI-assisted feedback for programming education.

Interfaces & interaction techniques
Learning & education technology
Language & society

2026Noise Pilot: Enabling Artistic Workflow Composition with Diffusion-Based Image GenerationCHI
2026Artographer: a Curatorial Interface for Art Space ExplorationCC

16 T1 · 27 papers · 7 members · 33 alumni

USStanfordComputer ScienceDec 8

Emma BrunskillAssociate Professor of Computer Science

Develops reinforcement learning and offline policy evaluation methods, with applications to education and healthcare.

Reinforcement learning
Language & society
Interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs

2026Assessing the Quality of AI-Generated Exams: A Large-Scale Field StudyAAAI
2026Bloom: Designing for LLM-Augmented Behavior Change InteractionsCHI

16 T1 · 35 papers · Group size not listed

USUIUCSiebel School of Computing and Data ScienceDec 1

Koustuv SahaAssistant Professor

Studies human-centered AI and social computing, including machine learning on social media to understand mental health and well-being.

Accessibility, health & wellbeing
Social computing & responsible AI
Language & society

2026“In my defense, only three hours on Instagram”: Designing Toward Digital Self-Awareness and WellbeingCHI
2026Designing Beyond Language: Sociotechnical Barriers in AI Health Technologies for Limited English ProficiencyCHI

16 T1 · 78 papers · 32 members · 20 alumni

USMichiganComputer Science and EngineeringDec 15

David JurgensAssociate Professor, EECS – Computer Science and Engineering; Associate Professor, School of Information

Studies natural language processing and computational social science, including how generative AI models social interaction and crowdsourced language data.

Language & society
Generative & foundation models
Computational social science

2026Modeling Annotator Disagreement with Demographic-Aware Experts and Synthetic PerspectivesACL
2026Interpreting Style Representations via Style-Eliciting PromptsFindings of ACL

15 T1 · 47 papers · Group size not listed

USUSCComputer ScienceDec 15

Maja MataricChan Soon-Shiong Chair and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics

Develops socially assistive robots for therapy, rehabilitation and education in the Interaction Lab.

Human-robot interaction & assistive robots
Language & society
Learning & education technology

2026Can LLMs Truly Embody Human Personality? Analyzing AI and Human Behavior Alignment in Dispute ResolutionAAAI
2026Can Large Language Models Infer Human Actions and Motives? Evaluation in Social Prediction and Inspection GamesFindings of ACL

15 T1 · 44 papers · Group size not listed

USUIUCSiebel School of Computing and Data ScienceDec 1

Hari SundaramProfessor

Studies computational social science, including network behavior, information diffusion and human-centered algorithm design.

Computational social science
Data management & big data
Language & society

2026Living Contracts: Beyond Document-Centric Interaction with Legal AgreementsCHI
2026Multi-modal Relational Item Representation Learning for Inferring Substitutable and Complementary ItemsSIGIR

14 T1 · 40 papers · 8 members · 37 alumni

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Diyi YangAssistant Professor of Computer Science

Maarten SapAssistant Professor

Chunyan MiaoProfessor

Ebrahim BagheriProfessor

Alan RitterAssociate Professor

Yingcai WuProfessor

Dong WangProfessor

Rada MihalceaJanice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Professor, EECS – Computer Science and Engineering; Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab

Wynne HsuProvost's Chair Professor

Mrinmaya SachanAssistant Professor

Dan JurafskyReynolds Professor in Humanities, Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Computer Science Stanford University

Munmun De ChoudhuryProfessor

Kevin Chen-Chuan ChangProfessor

Nick HaberAssistant Professor of Education

Björn HartmannAssociate Professor

Emma BrunskillAssociate Professor of Computer Science

Koustuv SahaAssistant Professor

David JurgensAssociate Professor, EECS – Computer Science and Engineering; Associate Professor, School of Information

Maja MataricChan Soon-Shiong Chair and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics

Hari SundaramProfessor

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Other topics in Natural Language Processing

I want to research language & society in anywhere.

Diyi YangAssistant Professor of Computer Science

Maarten SapAssistant Professor

Chunyan MiaoProfessor

Ebrahim BagheriProfessor

Alan RitterAssociate Professor

Yingcai WuProfessor

Dong WangProfessor

Rada MihalceaJanice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Professor, EECS – Computer Science and Engineering; Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab

Wynne HsuProvost's Chair Professor

Mrinmaya SachanAssistant Professor

Dan JurafskyReynolds Professor in Humanities, Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Computer Science Stanford University

Munmun De ChoudhuryProfessor

Kevin Chen-Chuan ChangProfessor

Nick HaberAssistant Professor of Education

Björn HartmannAssociate Professor

Emma BrunskillAssociate Professor of Computer Science

Koustuv SahaAssistant Professor

David JurgensAssociate Professor, EECS – Computer Science and Engineering; Associate Professor, School of Information

Maja MataricChan Soon-Shiong Chair and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics

Hari SundaramProfessor