KONVENS 2026 – GermEval Shared Task, Workshops, and Tutorials

3 March 2026, by Janis-Marie Paul

Photo: Janis-Marie Paul/UHH

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.

In its second edition, the Shared Task 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)

The task aims to advance research on detecting harmful content in German social media, fostering the development of more effective moderation tools and contributing to the protection of democratic institutions and public safety.

The trial phase runs from February 21 to March 16, 2026.
Trial data is available on GitHub
Participation details, data formats, and deadlines are available on Codabench 

Workshops

KONVENS 2026 will also host several workshops addressing current NLP challenges:

2nd KlarText Workshop: German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment
KlarText aims to bring 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, to foster collaboration and catalyze further interdisciplinary research efforts between these communities.

Tutorials

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.