Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor 2026-11 Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China text conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 aacl-2026-long https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.0/ Towards Probabilistic Question Answering Over Tabular Data Chen Shen author Estevam Hruschka author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 shen-hruschka-2026-towards https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.1/ 2026-11 1 23 Generating Linguistically Diverse and Semantically Faithful Patient Reports Alejandra Lorenzo author Adrien Coulet author Claire Gardent author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 lorenzo-etal-2026-generating https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.2/ 2026-11 24 48 Relational Priors as Convergence Pressure in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems Ming Shen author Chao Shang author Sadat Shahriar author Devang Kulshreshtha author Yi Zhang author Sandesh Swamy author Yanjun Qi author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 shen-etal-2026-relational https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.3/ 2026-11 49 66 Dynamics of Meaning: Towards the Evaluation of Diachronic Semantic Change in Sinhala Nevidu Jayatilleke author Nisansa de Silva author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 jayatilleke-de-silva-2026-dynamics https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.4/ 2026-11 67 98 ChartTableViVQA: A Vietnamese Benchmark Dataset for Visual Question Answering with Reasoning Instruction over Charts and Tables Images Quang Nhat Truong author Pham Quoc Thang author Son T Luu author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 truong-etal-2026-charttablevivqa https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.5/ 2026-11 99 123 Navigating the Reality Gap: On-Device Continual Adaptation of ASR for Clinical Telephony Darshil Chauhan author Adityasinh Solanki author Vansh Patel author Kanav Kapoor author Ritvik Jain author Aditya Bansal author Pratik Narang author Dhruv Kumar author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 chauhan-etal-2026-navigating https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.6/ 2026-11 124 139 SPECI: Fine-grained Evaluation of Specificity for Image Captioning Son T Luu author Hiep K V Nguyen author Trung Bui author Viet Dac Lai author Le-Minh Nguyen author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 luu-etal-2026-speci https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.7/ 2026-11 140 156 Are Linguistic and Arithmetic Circuits Dissociated in LLMs? Riku Kisako author Tatsuki Kuribayashi author Ryohei Sasano author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 kisako-etal-2026-linguistic https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.8/ 2026-11 157 173 Steering with Multilingual Lexicons for Sentiment Control in Low-Resource Languages Lucinda Laurent author Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar author Alfan Farizki Wicaksono author Fajri Koto author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 laurent-etal-2026-steering https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.9/ 2026-11 174 203 PRC: An Efficient and Unified Framework for Evaluating Robustness and Controllability of Large Language Models on Few-shot Prompt Variations Chunpeng Ma author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 ma-2026-prc https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.10/ 2026-11 204 222 JUMPSTARTER: Human-AI Planning with Task-Structured Context Curation Xuanming Zhang author Sitong Wang author Jenny Ma author Alyssa Hwang author Zhou Yu author Lydia Chilton author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 zhang-etal-2026-jumpstarter https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.11/ 2026-11 223 254 Decomposing LLM Advice Sycophancy: Content, Style, and Framing Drive Distinct Response Dimensions Jaya Singh author Verena Kaynig-Fittkau author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 singh-kaynig-fittkau-2026-decomposing https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.12/ 2026-11 255 274 HybridScholar: Personalized Paper Recommendation with Cross Attention-Gated Fusion and Verified Explanation Generation Joytun Nessa Tonny author Sajidur Rahman author Saddam Mukta author Swakkhar Shatabda author Salekul Islam author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 tonny-etal-2026-hybridscholar https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.13/ 2026-11 275 288 How Robust Is Multimodal Claim Verification to LLM Rewriting? Yun-Ang Wu author Xanh Ho author Andre Greiner-Petter author Sunisth Kumar author Tian Cheng Xia author Florian Boudin author Akiko Aizawa author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 wu-etal-2026-robust https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.14/ 2026-11 289 306 Argument Summarization: A Unified Task Definition, Taxonomy, and Survey Zhiqiang Shi author Oana Cocarascu author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 shi-cocarascu-2026-argument https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.15/ 2026-11 307 319 Escaping the Tokenizer Trap: Probabilistic Semantic Routing for Dense Retrieval in Specialized Domains Siu Hin Ng author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 ng-2026-escaping https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.16/ 2026-11 320 332 ARR-Dv2: New Data from ACL Rolling Review and its Potential to Improve Reviewing in the ACL Community Atnafu Lambebo Tonja author Sheng Lu author Nils Dycke author Dirk Hovy author Koen Dercksen author Lizhen Qu author Xiaodan Zhu author Thamar Solorio author Iryna Gurevych author Margot Mieskes author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 tonja-etal-2026-arr https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.17/ 2026-11 333 350 Attention-Guided Layer Selection for Contrastive Decoding in Large Language Models Yusuke Sakai author Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn author Kiyoaki Shirai author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 sakai-etal-2026-attention https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.18/ 2026-11 351 363 Episodic Memory from Compression Boundaries in Latent Representation Space David Oneil Campos Ferreira author Priscila Rocha Maia Freitas Ribeiro author Emanuel Borges Passinato author Diogo Fernandes Costa Silva author Arlindo Rodrigues Galvão Filho author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 ferreira-etal-2026-episodic https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.19/ 2026-11 364 385 Protocode: Prototype-Driven Interpretability for Code Generation in LLMs Bodla Krishna Vamshi author Haizhao Yang author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-439-2 vamshi-yang-2026-protocode https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.20/ 2026-11 386 407 North or South? 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