@inproceedings{zhao-etal-2026-improving,
    title = "Improving Multimodal Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings with Object-Phrase Alignment",
    author = "Zhao, Kaiyan  and
      Miao, Zhongtao  and
      Tsuruoka, Yoshimasa",
    editor = "Zhang, Yue  and
      Xu, Ruifeng  and
      Purwarianti, Ayu  and
      Rong, Tong  and
      Suzuki, Jun",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {IJCNLP}-{AACL} 2026",
    month = nov,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Hengqin, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-aacl.22/",
    pages = "397--404",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-444-6"
}