Encoding and Decoding Language in the Brain with Language Models

Anuja Negi; Mathis Lamarre; Christine Tseng; Subba Reddy Oota

Encoding and Decoding Language in the Brain with Language Models

Anuja Negi, Mathis Lamarre, Christine Tseng, Subba Reddy Oota

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This tutorial introduces brain-language model alignment and recent advances in scaling, multilingual brain encoding, brain-informed fine-tuning, and brain decoding with language models, including semantic reconstruction from brain data.

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Volume:: Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Tutorial Abstracts)
Month:: March
Year:: 2026
Address:: St. Julian's, Malta
Editors:: Chenghua Lin, Aline Paes, Rodrigo Wilkens
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Cite (ACL):: Anuja Negi, Mathis Lamarre, Christine Tseng, and Subba Reddy Oota. 2026. Encoding and Decoding Language in the Brain with Language Models. In Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Tutorial Abstracts), pages 7–8, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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[Encoding and Decoding Language in the Brain with Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-tutorials.3/) (Negi et al., EACL 2026)

Encoding and Decoding Language in the Brain with Language Models (Negi et al., EACL 2026)

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Anuja Negi, Mathis Lamarre, Christine Tseng, and Subba Reddy Oota. 2026. Encoding and Decoding Language in the Brain with Language Models. In Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Tutorial Abstracts), pages 7–8, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.