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Information Disorder Workshop (InDor)
Co-located with LREC 2026 – Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Online disinformation is a pressing challenge for our societies. Its role in influencing elections (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017) and behaviors (van der Linden et al., 2020) has gathered the attention of different societal actors aimed at mitigating its negative impact.
The Natural Language Processing (NLP) community is contributing to fighting this phenomenon with a growing number of datasets (Hussain et al., 2025) and technologies (e.g. VeraAI, AskVera, Bellingcat) (Lupi et al., 2023; Wuhrl et al., 2023) for the automatic recognition of fake news. However, this field of research suffers from a lack of a common theoretical framework, which causes a fragmentation of approaches. The increasing attention of the NLP community to human-label variation (Plank, 2022) raises additional challenges regarding the cross-cultural and pragmatic implications that determine the spreading of disinformation (Dabbous et al., 2022).
The goal of the Information Disorder (InDor) workshop is to promote an interdisciplinary and intersectoral discussion towards the development of NLP research on disinformation.
Information Disorder is a recent framework introduced by Wardle and Derakhshan (2017) to organize theories, definitions, and approaches for the study of disinformation. The framework is characterized by two main pillars:
- Acknowledging the need to categorize fake news under a finer-grained taxonomy of disorders (mis-information, dis-information, and mal-information);
- Exploring the role of contextual factors that determine the spreading of fake news and other forms of information disorder.
Aims of the Workshop
The InDor workshop aims to:
- Define a common theoretical ground for research on disinformation in NLP and beyond
- Discuss the cultural factors determining subjectivity and susceptibility to disinformation
- Promote interdisciplinarity in the development of datasets and models
- Discuss the impact of real-world applications designed to contrast disinformation
The InDor workshop (half-day duration) will be co-located with the 15th biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 12th of May 2026.
Topics of Interest
We invite original research papers specifically on the following topics, with a particular focus on resources, taxonomies, and benchmarks for the evaluation of NLP systems on Information Disorder:
- 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 applications to contrast false information
- Experimental applications and projects for social good
- Evaluation of Information Disorder-focused systems
- Generative approaches to contrast false information
- Participatory approaches
- Position papers on Information Disorder
This list is indicative, not exhaustive. We welcome work from NLP, computational social science, media studies, communication, psychology, political science, and other relevant disciplines.
Submission Types
We accept three types of submissions:
- Regular research papers (archival)
- Non-archival submissions
- Same format as research papers, but they will not be included in the LREC proceedings
- (Non-archival) research communications
- 1-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere
InDor will also accept submissions that have been rejected from ACL Rolling Review, provided they:
- Are accompanied by their reviews, and
- Fit the topic of the workshop.
Length & Formatting
- Research papers (archival or non-archival): up to 8 pages of content
- Research communications: up to 1 page of content
The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the LREC 2026 formatting guidelines. Templates and author kits are available at:
👉 https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/
Submissions must be anonymous and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review.
Ethical and Resource Requirements
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources in a broad sense, i.e. not only datasets, but also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc., that:
- Have been used for the work described in the paper, or
- Are a new result of the research.
ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described language resources (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation experiments).
In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics statement in their papers.
Review Process
Submissions are open to all and will be peer-reviewed double-blind.
- All papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers
- Final acceptance decisions will be made by the workshop organizers
Scientific papers will be evaluated based on:
- Relevance to the workshop
- Significance of the contribution and potential impact
- Technical quality
- Scholarship and grounding in prior work
- Quality of presentation
Attendance & Presentation
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work, in-person or online (in accordance with LREC policies and workshop arrangements).
Important Dates
See also the Important Dates page.
- February 17, 2026 – Paper submission deadline
- March 17, 2026 – Notification of acceptance
- March 30, 2026 – Camera ready submission
- May 12, 2026 – InDor at LREC 2026 (exact day to be confirmed)
Contact
For any questions about the workshop or submissions, please contact:
Simona Frenda (Heriot-Watt University)
📧 s.frenda@hw.ac.uk
Please use a subject line such as: “InDor Workshop – [Your Topic]”.