@inproceedings{xiong-etal-2026-language, title = "When Language Becomes a Shortcut in Automated Short-Answer Scoring", author = "Xiong, Xiaomeng and Huggins-Manley, Corinne and Shin, Jinnie and Grant, Christan", editor = "Wilson, Joshua and Ormerod, Christopher and Beiting-Parrish, Magdalen", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference ({AIME}-Con): Coordinated Session Papers", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States", publisher = "National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.aimecon-sessions.16/", pages = "146--163", ISBN = "979-8-9983004-2-4" }