NLP4Ecology is an interdisciplinary workshop that explores how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and computational linguistics can contribute to addressing ecological and environmental challenges. 

The anthropogenic ecological crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our time, with tangible consequences for people, non-human animals, and ecosystems worldwide. This is an urgent challenge that the NLP community, together with researchers of other disciplines, must actively engage with. In this context, NLP and computational linguistics offer unprecedented opportunities: by processing and analysing large-scale linguistic data across languages, media, and genres, they provide frameworks and tools essential for understanding how ecological issues are represented, communicated, and negotiated in society.

NLP methods can help identify recurring patterns and harmful framings in media, political communication, and online debates; detect misinformation and greenwashing; and trace how ecological concepts evolve across time and languages. Combined with ecolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, and related fields, computational approaches allow researchers to examine ecological discourse at multiple levels — from lexical and syntactic choices to pragmatic, narrative, and extra-linguistic dimensions — revealing language patterns that shape societal perceptions and policies toward the natural world, ultimately informing public awareness and policy-making. NLP4Ecology provides a forum for interdisciplinary exchange. The success of its 2025 first edition confirmed a rapidly growing community interested in the intersection of NLP and ecology.

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