[CFP] Special issue on ethics in NLP and CL in Computational Linguistics Journal

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Dear colleagues!

We are very happy to announce the forthcoming special issue on ethics in 
natural language processing and computational linguistics in the journal 
Computational Linguistics 
([https://direct.mit.edu/coli](https://direct.mit.edu/coli)).

Language processing technologies from Siri to Google Translate and 
ChatGPT have become ubiquitous in our societies. Consequently, there has 
been a decade of attention to algorithmically mediated harms, including 
harms arising from social biases and discriminatory technologies. In 
this special issue, we broadly invite contributions that reflect on the 
ethics of language technologies. We invite **theoretical** and technical 
submissions around - but not limited to:

*   Reflection on bias and fairness research and its outcomes;
*   Interdisciplinary perspectives on bias, fairness, and 
algorithmically mediated harms;
*   Critiques of existing approaches;
*   Development of new theories for bias, fairness, and algorithmically 
mediated harms;
*   Analyses of power relationships (including conflicts of interests) 
and their impacts;
*   Multilingual considerations;
*   Decolonisation in relation to bias and fairness;
*   Reflections on ongoing debates on bias, fairness, and ethics;
*   Language technologies in context (e.g., in political/social/cultural 
tensions);
*   Slow science and its relationship to bias and fairness;
*   Luddite and decomputing perspectives on language technologies, bias, 
and fairness;
*   Environmental impacts of language technologies
*   The impacts and social considerations of data labour;
*   Social and societal harms of language technologies; and
*   External perspectives on language technologies.

We particularly encourage **inter-, cross- and transdisciplinary** 
submissions which center questions around the fairness, bias, justice, 
and ethics of natural language processing technologies and computational 
linguistics.

### 
[](https://notes.inria.fr/2HKIxrP4TD-yH3GDvkwWkw#important-dates-and-information 
"important-dates-and-information")Important dates and information

*Submission deadline*: 27 November, 2026
*Notification*: February, 2027
*Publication (Expected)*: October, 2027

Submission site: 
[https://submissions.cljournal.org/index.php/cljournal/submission](https://submissions.cljournal.org/index.php/cljournal/submission)

### [](https://notes.inria.fr/2HKIxrP4TD-yH3GDvkwWkw#guest-editors 
"guest-editors")Guest Editors

*   Karën Fort, Université de Lorraine / LORIA, France
*   Margot Mieskes, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany
*   Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

If you have any questions feel free to reach out to us 
[cl\_si\[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

### [](https://notes.inria.fr/2HKIxrP4TD-yH3GDvkwWkw#about-the-journal 
"about-the-journal")About the journal

Computational Linguistics is the longest-running publication devoted 
exclusively to the computational and mathematical properties of language 
and the design and analysis of natural language processing systems. This 
highly regarded quarterly offers university and industry linguists, 
computational linguists, artificial intelligence and machine learning 
investigators, cognitive scientists, speech specialists, and 
philosophers the latest information about the computational aspects of 
all the facets of research on language.

Computational Linguistics is a diamond open access journal, which means 
that "there is **no fee to publish and the content is open to anyone to 
read**. All of these titles employ a Creative Commons license for 
individual articles." 
([https://direct.mit.edu/journals/pages/open-access](https://direct.mit.edu/journals/pages/open-access))

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