@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-learning-concepts,
    title = "Learning Concepts, Not Tokens: Self-Supervised Semantic Alignment for Language Models",
    author = "Zhang, Christine  and
      Jurafsky, Dan  and
      Shani, Chen",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1709/",
    pages = "38927--38956",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}