Workshops, GermEval, Tutorials

KONVENS 2026 – GermEval Shared Task, Workshops, and Tutorials

GermEval Shared Task

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

Organizers:

  • Michael Spranger (Mittweida University of Applied Sciences)
  • Jenny Felser (Mittweida University of Applied Sciences)
  • Melanie Siegel (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences)
  • Frederike Zufall (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  • Florian Ludwig (Zentrale Stelle für Informationstechnik im Sicherheitsbereich, ZITiS)

Workshops

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.

Website: https://klar-text.github.io

Organizers:

  • Miriam Anschütz (Technische Universität München)
  • Yingqiang Gao (University of Zurich)
  • Thorben Schomacker (Uni Hamburg & HAW Hamburg)
  • Regina Stodden (Universität Bielefeld)

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.

Website: https://eval4sd.github.io/

Organizers:

  • Hans Ole Hatzel (University of Hamburg)
  • Carolin Holtermann (University of Hamburg)

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.

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cpss2026konvens/home-page

Organizers:

  • Dennis Assenmacher (Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, GESIS)
  • Agnieszka Faleńska (University of Stuttgart)
  • Christopher Klamm (University of Mannheim)
  • Gabriella Lapesa (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf; GESIS)
  • Simone Paolo Ponzetto (University of Mannheim)
  • Franziska Weeber (University of Stuttgart)

Tutorials

Two practice-oriented tutorials complement the program:

Human Evaluation of Translation and Multilingual Tasks

Website: https://github.com/zouharvi/humeval-tutorial

Organizers:

  • Vilém Zouhar (ETH Zurich)
  • Maike Züfle (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  • Patrícia Schmidtová (Charles University)

Detecting Deceptive Characteristics in Speech: Linguistic and Computational Approaches to High-Stakes Deception

Organizers:

  • Brett Drury (Liverpool Hope University)
  • Kateryna Miniailo (Liverpool Hope University)

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.