FinEval Challenge @ EMNLP 2026 - FinNLP Workshop: Multilingual Financial Language Understanding

Yupeng Cao, Haohang Li, Yuechen Jiang, Yueru He, Yuyan Wang, Ruoyu Xiang, Yangyang Yu


Abstract
Financial language understanding requires accurate interpretation of numerical disclosures, implicit corporate intent, and evidence distributed across languages and documents. We present FinEval 2026, a shared task at the FinNLP workshop at EMNLP 2026, comprising Greek financial named-entity recognition, Japanese implicit communication recognition, and multilingual financial question answering. The registration records contain 35 teams after reconciliation, and 14 teams contribute system description papers. The final leaderboards contain 7, 10, and 15 entries for the three subtasks, respectively. We describe the task design, participation, submitted approaches, and final results. Leading scores reach 0.9676 entity F1, 0.9714 accuracy, and 0.3827 ROUGE-1 F1. Systems combine domain rules, language-specific modeling, structured prompting, retrieval, and controlled answer revision. Their results highlight the value of task-specific constraints while exposing limitations arising from small test sets, development-to-test shifts, and reuse of previously released reference material. We identify priorities for more reliable multilingual financial evaluation.
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2026.finnlp-1.62
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing
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October
Year:
2026
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Budapest, Hungary
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Jimin Huang, Yongjae Lee, Sophia Ananiadou, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Hiroya Takamura, Chung-Chi Chen
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FinNLP | WS
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SIGFinTech
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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730–739
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https://aclanthology.org/2026.finnlp-1.62/
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Yupeng Cao, Haohang Li, Yuechen Jiang, Yueru He, Yuyan Wang, Ruoyu Xiang, and Yangyang Yu. 2026. FinEval Challenge @ EMNLP 2026 - FinNLP Workshop: Multilingual Financial Language Understanding. In Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing, pages 730–739, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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FinEval Challenge @ EMNLP 2026 - FinNLP Workshop: Multilingual Financial Language Understanding (Cao et al., FinNLP 2026)
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