We are pleased to announce the 1st Call for Participation for the GermEval 2026 Shared Task on Harmful Content Detection in German Social Media, organized as part of KONVENS 2026 and led by Michael Spranger and Melanie Siegel.

The second edition focuses on four key challenges in German-language tweets:

• Detection of calls to action
• Attacks against the liberal democratic basic order
• Disturbingly positive statements towards violence
• Defamatory offences (Sections 185–187 German Criminal Code)

Trial phase: February 21 – March 16, 2026

Trial data:
GitHub Repository

Participation details, data formats, and deadlines:
Codabench Competition Page

KONVENS 2026 will host several workshops addressing current NLP challenges:

2nd KlarText Workshop: German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment
KlarText brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to discuss state-of-the-art methods, share resources, and identify future research directions in German text simplification and readability assessment.

Eval4SD – First Workshop on Evaluating LLMs for Specialized Domains
Eval4SD focuses on benchmarking LLMs for specialized tasks, replicating existing domain research, and exploring evaluation methodology.
https://eval4sd.github.io/

6th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS)
The goal of CPSS is to bring together researchers and ideas from computational linguistics/NLP and the text-as-data community in political and social science, fostering collaboration and supporting further interdisciplinary research initiatives.

Two practice-oriented tutorials complement the program:

• Human Evaluation of Translation and Multilingual Tasks
• Detecting Deceptive Characteristics in Speech: Linguistic and Computational Approaches to High-Stakes Deception

With the GermEval Shared Task and its accompanying workshops, KONVENS 2026 contributes significantly to advancing NLP research in socially impactful domains—from harmful content detection and political discourse analysis to text simplification and LLM evaluation.

We look forward to broad participation and inspiring discussions.