@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2026-dont,
    title = "Don{'}t Generate, Just Score: Enhancing Topic Coherence with Masked Semantic Alignment",
    author = "Nguyen, Tien-Phat  and
      Xuan, Minh Chu  and
      Huy, Phung Gia  and
      Van, Linh Ngo  and
      Nguyen, Duc Anh  and
      Le, Trung  and
      Nguyen, Thien Huu",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.226/",
    pages = "4739--4766",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}