Workshop Program

Day 1 (10.09.2025)
09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks
(Program Chairs)
09:15-10:00 Oral Presentations 1
Session Chair: Ines Rehbein
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 Oral Presentations 2
Session Chair: Manfred Stede
11:30-12:30 Poster Session


Day 2 (11.09.2025)
09:00-10:00 Keynote 1: From Psychometrics to Practice: Validating NLP for Political and Social Research
Qixiang Fang, ODISSEI Social Data Science (SoDa) Team at Utrecht University
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10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 Oral Presentations 3
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11:00-12:00 Keynote 2: Measuring Political Bias in Large Language Models
Paul Röttger, MilaNLP Lab at Bocconi University
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12:00-12:20 Discussion: Validation and best practices for using NLP in political and social science research
12:20-12:30 Closing

Oral presentations 1

Analyzing Polarization in Online Discourse on the 2023 Israel–Hamas War
Daniel Miehling, Daniel Dakota, Sandra Kübler

Heroes, villains, and victims: Character narratives in the WPS agenda of the UNSC
Raluca Rilla, Hannah Mathilde Steinbach, Imge Yüzüncüoglu, Manfred Stede

Abstractive Event Analysis of Armed Conflicts: Introducing the UCDP-AE Dataset
Étienne Simon, Helene Bøsei Olsen, Ramón Carreño, Rahul Mishra, Nikolay Arefyev, Mert Can Yilmaz, Lilja Øvrelid, Erik Velldal



Oral presentations 2

Americans are dreamers – Generic statements and stereotyping in political tweets
Ines Rehbein

Causally fooled in the name of being honest? Evaluating causal extraction in LLMs for political text
Paulina Garcia-Corral

How phatic is political communication in social media?
Aenne Cecilia Kristine Knierim, Jannis Kuck, Ulrich Heid, Thomas Mandl

Enhancing Policy Analysis with NLP: A Reproducible Approach to Incentive Classification
M.A. Waskow, John Philip McCrae


In-Person Poster Session

Persona-driven Simulation of Voting Behavior in the European Parliament with Large Language Models
Maximilian Kreutner, Marlene Lutz, Markus Strohmaier

What is Democracy? Exploiting Situation Entities to Uncover Democracy Frames in German Political Discourse
Julian Schlenker, Ines Rehbein, Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Are Epistemic Norms in Decline? A Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary Discourse
Segun Aroyehun, Fabio Carrella, Stephan Lewandowsky, David Garcia

Leveraging Survey-Informed LLM Personas to Identify Cultural References : Enhancing Inclusivity in News Reporting
Reshmi Pillai, Wouter Van Atteveldt, Antske Fokkens

How Stable Are Political Ideology Classifiers Over Time? An Empirical Evaluation of Temporal Robustness in NLP Models
Mohsin Khan

Methods Hub - a collaborative platform for exploring, learning and sharing computational methods in the social sciences
Julia Romberg, Christina Viehmann, Johannes Kiesel, Arnim Bleier, Chung-hong Chan, Po-Chun Chang, Raniere Gaia Costa da Silva, Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Fakhri Momeni, Felix Victor Münch, Yu Ran (GESIS, invited presentation)


Oral presentations 3

TRAVELWARN-Crawler: Constructing longitudinal datasets of government-issued travel warnings for political and social science research
Laura Braun, Christian Oswald

Narrative Structure Extraction in Disinformation and Trustworthy News: A Comparison of LLM, KG, and KG-Augmented Pipelines
Justina Mandravickaitė