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Information Disorder Workshop (InDor)
Co-located with LREC 2026 – Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Palau de Congressos de Palma – 12 May 2026
Half-day workshop
Online disinformation is a pressing challenge for our societies. Its role in influencing elections and behaviors has drawn the attention of policy-makers, civil society, and researchers working to mitigate its negative impact.
The Natural Language Processing (NLP) community is actively contributing to this effort, with a growing number of datasets and technologies for the automatic recognition of fake news and related phenomena. However, research in this area still suffers from a lack of a common theoretical framework, resulting in fragmentation of approaches and limited cross-fertilization across disciplines.
The Information Disorder (InDor) Workshop aims to promote an interdisciplinary and intersectoral discussion towards the development of NLP research on disinformation.
About Information Disorder
Information Disorder is a framework introduced by Wardle and Derakhshan (2017)
to organize theories, definitions, and approaches to the study of disinformation.
It is built on two main pillars:
- Acknowledging the need to categorize “fake news” under a finer-grained taxonomy
of disorders:
- mis-information
- dis-information
- mal-information
- Exploring the role of contextual factors that determine the spreading and impact of false or misleading information.
Aims of the InDor Workshop
The InDor workshop aims to:
- Define a common theoretical ground for research on disinformation in NLP and beyond
- Discuss the cultural and contextual factors determining susceptibility to disinformation
- Promote interdisciplinarity in the development of datasets and models
- Discuss the impact of real-world applications in contrasting disinformation and supporting social good
Call for Papers
We invite submissions that address Information Disorder from a broad range of perspectives, with a particular focus on resources, taxonomies, and benchmarks for the evaluation of NLP systems.
You can find the full Call for Papers here:
Topics of Interest (short overview)
We welcome work on, but not limited to:
- New interdisciplinary theoretical proposals and foundational aspects
- Surveys on Information Disorder
- Multiculturality and multilinguality in datasets and technologies
- Interdisciplinary computational methods and frameworks
- Community- and user-centered approaches
- Real-world and experimental applications to contrast false information
- Evaluation of Information Disorder-focused systems
- Generative approaches and participatory approaches to counter false information
- Positions and perspectives on Information Disorder
(See the full CFP for a detailed list.)
Submission Types & Format
We accept three types of submissions:
- Regular research papers (archival)
- Non-archival research papers
- Like research papers but not included in the proceedings
- (Non-archival) research communications
- 1-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere
For detailed information on length, anonymity, and ethical requirements, see:
Important Dates
See the full list here:
Venue & Co-location
The InDor workshop (half-day) will be co-located with the 15th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), to be held at the:
Palau de Congressos de Palma
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Dates: 12 May 2026
Organizers
See the full list of organizers and contact information here:
Contact
For questions, please contact:
Simona Frenda – Heriot-Watt University
📧 s.frenda@hw.ac.uk