Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026)

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor 2026-10 Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary text conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 pandora-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.0/ Demographic Pluralism: Inference-Time Modeling of Pluralistic Human Preference Distributions Meng-Chen Wu author Qipin Chen author Ansh Jain author Tess Wood author Zhe Du author Si-Chi Chin author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 wu-etal-2026-demographic https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.1/ 2026-10 1 34 The Grue Divide: When Cognitive Accuracy Doesn’t Predict Affective Alignment Kai Park author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 park-2026-grue https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.2/ 2026-10 35 68 What is “Cultural Representation” in AI Benchmarks? A Multidimensional Evaluation Framework Carolin Holtermann author Josefine Birkmann author Anne Lauscher author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 holtermann-etal-2026-cultural https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.3/ 2026-10 69 87 Metric-Dependent Annotation Saturation for Learning from Label Distributions Guneet Kohli author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 kohli-2026-metric https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.4/ 2026-10 88 104 Pluralistic Annotation of Cultural Weaponization on Wikipedia: A Multi-Annotator Case Study across Ukraine and Armenia Camil Hamdane author Hanna Perekhoda author Emanuela Boros author Stefanie Prezioso author Hamest Tamrazyan author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 hamdane-etal-2026-pluralistic https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.5/ 2026-10 105 120 Population-Grounded Evaluation of Multilingual LLM Alignment with European Societal Values David Solans Noguero author Jordi Luque author Aleix Sant author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 solans-noguero-etal-2026-population https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.6/ 2026-10 121 134 When Context Sensitivity Isn’t Enough: An Argument Against Likelihood-Based Probes for Evaluating LLM-Simulated Students Pagnarith Pit author Ekaterina Vylomova author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 pit-vylomova-2026-context https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.7/ 2026-10 135 148 Better Reward Models Are Not Always Less Biased: Social Alignment Beyond Standard Reward Benchmarks Gayane Ghazaryan author Esra Dönmez author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 ghazaryan-donmez-2026-better https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.8/ 2026-10 149 168 Alignment Sharpens Elicited Label Distributions under Logit and Sampled Elicitation Christy Jacob Tharakan author Kohsheen Tiku author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 tharakan-tiku-2026-alignment https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.9/ 2026-10 169 190 Which Objectives Need a Dial? Predicting Objective Conflict and Covering Trade-offs in Steerable Pluralistic Alignment David Tsoi author Esra Dönmez author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 tsoi-donmez-2026-objectives https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.10/ 2026-10 191 206 LatAm-RT:Toward Culturally Adaptive Red Teaming for AI Safety in Latin America Roxana R Romero author Minwoo Kim author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 romero-kim-2026-latam https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.11/ 2026-10 207 223 PersonaWeaver: Controllable Diversity Beyond Conventional Archetypes in Procedural Character Generation Maan Qraitem author Kate Saenko author Bryan A Plummer author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 qraitem-etal-2026-personaweaver https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.12/ 2026-10 224 236 Explain Less, Understand More: Data-Efficient Personalization of Reader-Dependent Jargons Bohao Wu author Qingyun Wang author Yue Guo author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 wu-etal-2026-explain https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.13/ 2026-10 237 249 Evaluating with Disagreement: Metrics for Soft and Perspectivist Evaluation of Categorical and Ordinal Judgments Giulia Rizzi author Silvia Casola author Elisabetta Fersini author Elisa Leonardelli author Barbara Plank author Massimo Poesio author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 rizzi-etal-2026-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.14/ 2026-10 250 265 Understanding Cultural Alignment in Multilingual LLMs via Natural Debate Statements Vlad Andrei Negru author Camelia Lemnaru author Mihai Surdeanu author Rodica Potolea author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 negru-etal-2026-understanding https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.15/ 2026-10 266 278 Whose Toxicity? Persona Conditioning and Model–Annotator Label Agreement by Gender in Indonesian Toxicity Classification Salsabila Zahirah Pranida author Antonia Karamolegkou author Andrea Morales-Garzón author Daniel Hershcovich author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 pranida-etal-2026-whose https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.16/ 2026-10 279 300 Persona Prompting in Multimodal Urban Perception: Descriptive Convergence and Interpretive Variation Neemias B da Silva author Matt Ratto author Myriam Delgado author Rodrigo Minetto author Daniel Silver author Thiago H Silva author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 da-silva-etal-2026-persona https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.17/ 2026-10 301 318 Toward a Culture Map of Chatbots: Evaluating LLM Understanding of Cross-Cultural Workplace Norms Thomas Dubedout author Carlo Alberto Bono author Francesco Pierri author Anna Bernasconi author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 dubedout-etal-2026-toward https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.18/ 2026-10 319 333 Cultural Divergence Preservation: Diagnosing Flattening and Caricature in LLM-Simulated Survey Populations Yeeun Chae author Yewon Choi author Seunghyun Lee author Il Im author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 chae-etal-2026-cultural https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.19/ 2026-10 334 347 BELIEFSIM: Towards Belief-Driven Simulation of Demographic Misinformation Susceptibility Angana Borah author Zohaib Khan author Rada Mihalcea author Veronica Perez-Rosas author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 borah-etal-2026-beliefsim https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.20/ 2026-10 348 372 Evaluating Cultural Awareness of LLMs for Haitian Creole Christelle Clervilsson author Yanzhu Guo author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 clervilsson-guo-2026-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.21/ 2026-10 373 387 Plausible but Wrong: A Statistical Evaluation of GPT Models on High-Stakes Migration Statistics Hector Contreras author Ravinithesh Annapureddy author Daniel Gatica-perez author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pluralistic AI NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA 2026) Shanshan Xu editor Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Kemal Kurniawan editor Siyao Peng editor Sarenne Wallbridge editor Fajri Koto editor Nouha Dziri editor Barbara Plank editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-484-2 contreras-etal-2026-plausible https://aclanthology.org/2026.pandora-1.22/ 2026-10 388 403