@inproceedings{sun-etal-2026-rubric, title = "Rubric Spans are Label Representations: Joint {LLM} Encoding for Short Answer Scoring", author = "Sun, Zhifan and Gombert, Sebastian and Zehner, Fabian and Camus, Leon and Cong, Longwei and Drachsler, Hendrik", 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.662/", pages = "15246--15266", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }