****** First Call for Papers ******
SICon 2025: 3nd Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sicon2025/home
Twitter: @SIConWorkshop
Paper Submission via Openreview: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/SICon
Contact: sicon-chairs [at] googlegroups.com
Venue: Co-located with ACL 2025; July 31 or August 1, 2025; Vienna, Austria
*** Workshop description ***
The Third Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations (SICon 2025) invites submissions on recent advancements in social influence dialogue systems and other NLP tasks that can expand these systems' social influence capabilities. Our workshop aims to foster inclusivity and interdisciplinary dialogue, bridging insights from diverse fields, including NLP, psychology, sociology, and decision science. SICon 2025 aspires to provide an open and engaging forum to connect researchers from academia and industry working on related topics, especially in negotiation, persuasion, and other forms of social influence.
This year’s workshop also emphasizes cultivating connections between subfields and creating opportunities for newcomers to adapt and thrive within this emerging community. To this end, we encourage submissions from diverse perspectives and career stages, providing a platform for collaboration and growth.
We aim to promote discussion around key questions such as:
* How can social influence systems model users and plan optimal responses systematically?
* How can linguistic theories from the social sciences (e.g., persuasion and negotiation tactics) enhance social influence systems?
* What unites and differentiates various social influence tasks structurally?
* What ethical challenges do AI systems that engage in social influence face, and what guardrails must we implement before deploying them in real-world contexts?
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Analysis-focused contributions
* Analyzing linguistic behaviors in social influence (SI) interactions, including persuasion appeals, emotional expressions, therapeutic methods, or deception (e.g., strategic games like Diplomacy or Catan).
* Associations between linguistic behaviors and SI task outcomes (e.g., agent performance, user satisfaction).
* Examining user attributes (e.g., demographics, personality traits) and their association with SI outcomes.
* Cultural differences in SI interactions.
* SI in text combined with other modalities (e.g., face-to-face multi-issue negotiations).
System design contributions
* Dialogue systems for SI tasks such as strategic games, negotiation, persuasion, argumentation, recommendation, or emotional support.
* Multi-agent SI systems.
* SI systems leveraging large language models (LLMs).
* SI systems informed by linguistic theories from social sciences.
* Addressing unintentional SI in human-facing NLP systems.
Contributions advancing sub-goals in SI tasks
* Detecting influence strategies, outcome prediction, stance detection, and argument mining.
* Partner/opponent modeling and emotion recognition in SI interactions.
Other contributions
* Datasets capturing forms of social influence, especially in underrepresented languages (e.g., human-human datasets, wizard-of-oz studies).
* Guardrails for Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI systems with SI capabilities.
* Opinion or position papers on social influence.
Timeline
* Direct submission deadline: April 1, 2025
* Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: April 15, 2025
* Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2025
* Camera-ready paper deadline: June 6, 2025
* Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): July 7, 2025
* Workshop dates: July 31 or August 1, 2025