The 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities (NLP4DH 2026) will be organized together with ACL 2026. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the ACL anthology. The conference will take place in San Diego, USA on July 6, 2026.
The focus of the conference is on applying natural language processing techniques to digital humanities research. The topics can be anything of digital humanities interest with a natural language processing or generation aspect.
A list of suitable topics includes but is not limited to:
Applying techniques from mechanistic interpretability for DH purposes.
Generating or appraising human-written narratives with LLMs and other NLP systems.
Assessing cultural bias in model output and behaviour, especially in a multilingual setting.
Data provenance, including examining pre- and post-training sets.
NLP for cultural heritage collections and research connected to galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
OCR, including automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data.
We seek works that critically inspect LLM training set characteristics, creatively adapt techniques from mechanistic interpretability for humanities purposes, and bolster NLP techniques with humanities-centric intuition. We seek DH for NLP. This includes topics such as:
Critical methods for interpreting LLM behaviour
Studies contextualizing NLP techniques, including LLMs, use in different social contexts
Humanities-inspired pre-training and post-training
Recovering useful latent structures from pre-trained LLM
Philosophical considerations of NLP techniques, including LLMs
And more.
Cornell University
Waseda University
Cornell University
Aarhus University
Cornell University
Cornell University
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Hale Sirin, Johns Hopkins University
Thibault Clérice, INRIA Paris - Almanach
Noémi Ligeti-Nagy, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics
Anna Dmitrieva, University of Helsinki
Frederik Arnold, Humboldt Universität Berlin
Dongqi Liu, Universität des Saarlandes
Won Ik Cho, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
Konstantin Schulz, Humboldt Universität Berlin
Aynat Rubinstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alejandro Sierra Múnera, Hasso Plattner Institute
Tim Fischer, University of Hamburg
Shu Okabe, Technische Universität München
Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Ruhr-Universtät Bochum
Yoshifumi Kawasaki, The University of Tokyo
Klara Venglarova, Universität Graz
Youngsook Song, Sionic AI
Joshua Wilbur, University of Tartu
Keito Inoshita, Shiga University
Kenichi Iwatsuki, Mirai Translate
Piper Vasicek, Brigham Young University
Mohammed Attia, Google
Laura Manrique-Gómez, Universidad de Los Andes
Craig Messner, Johns Hopkins University
Abhai Pratap Singh, Carnegie Mellon University
Balázs Indig, Eötvös Lorand University
Anton Eklund, Umeå University
Jouni Tuominen, University of Helsinki
Jesse Roberts, Tennessee Technological University
Nikita Neveditsin, St. Mary's University
William Thorne, University of Sheffield
Lev Kharlashkin, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Jonne Sälevä, Brandeis University
Gleb Schmidt, Radboud University
Erik Henriksson, University of Turku
Amanda Myntti, University of Turku
Erkki Mervaala, University of Helsinki
Jay Park, Nanyang Technological University
Lama Alqazlan, University of Warwick
Pascale Moreira, Aarhus University
Enrique Manjavacas, Arevalo University of Leiden
Chahan Vidal-Gorène, École Nationale des Chartes
Lucija Krusic, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Lidia Pivovarova, University of Helsinki
Iana Atanassova, University of Franche-Comté
Sebastian Oliver Eck, University of Oxford
Shuo Zhang, Bose Corporation
Tomasz Walkowiak, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Elissa Nakajima, Wickham Waseda University
Nicolas Gutehrlé, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté
Hanna-Mari Kupari, University of Turku
Sourav Das, Indian Institute of Information Technology Kalyani
Antti Kanner, University of Helsinki
Julie-Anne Meaney, University of Edinburgh
Eetu Mäkelä, University of Helsinki
Fotini Koidaki, University of Crete
Yuzuki Tsukagoshi, University of Tokyo
Quanqi Du, Ghent University
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Universidade de Coimbra
Maciej Kurzynski, Lingnan University
Xinmeng Hou, Columbia University
Sijia Ge, University of Colorado at Boulder
Mary Ogbuka Kenneth, Imperial College London
Mina Rajaei Moghadam, Northern Illinois University
Quan Duong, University of Helsinki
Mohamed Hannani, Universität Siegen
Pascale Feldkamp, Aarhus University
Eiaki Morooka, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Jahnavi Anilkumar Kachhia, Facebook
Rynaa Grover, Google
Milavkumar Sha, IEEE
Pratik Aher, Meta
Kunal Chhabaria, Walmart Connect
Elena Klyachko, HSE University
Yulia Badryzlova, Higher School of Economics
Mariia Fedorova, University of Oslo