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 2: Short 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 2: Short 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 979-8-89176-440-8 aacl-2026-short https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.0/ An Empirical Study of On-Device Translation for Real-Time Live-Stream Chat on Mobile Devices Jeiyoon Park author Daehwan Lee author Changmin Yeo author Yongshin Han author Minseop Kim 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 2: Short Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-440-8 park-etal-2026-empirical https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.1/ 2026-11 1 10 ImmunoFOMO: Are Language Models missing what oncologists see? Aman Sinha author Bogdan-Valentin Popescu author Xavier Coubez author Marianne Clausel author Mathieu Constant 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 2: Short Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-440-8 sinha-etal-2026-immunofomo https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.2/ 2026-11 11 21 Constructive Comment Extraction from Japanese YouTube Shorts: A Dataset and Empirical Study Siyuan Feng author Luecheng Wang author Koyo Ogura author Yuma Iwamoto author Seinosuke Sato author Yuki Kometani author Masaki Itabashi author Shintaro Ozaki author Yusuke Sakai author Shogo Matsuno author Hidetaka Kamigaito author Katsuhiko Hayashi author Ryoma Obara author Sho Takase author Taro Watanabe 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 2: Short Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-440-8 feng-etal-2026-constructive https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.3/ 2026-11 22 34 When Does Knowledge Distillation Hurt? Reliability-Aware Distillation for Low-Resource Language Summarization Dipto Sumit author Ankan Kumar Roy Srizon author Sadia Khair Rodela author Atia Haque Asha author Mourchona Afrin author Niloy Farhan author Farig Sadeque 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 2: Short Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-440-8 sumit-etal-2026-knowledge https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.4/ 2026-11 35 48 Generate, Verify, and Refine: Event Timelines for Robust Video-Grounded Dialogue Systems Wiradee Imrattanatrai author Masaki Asada author Kimihiro Hasegawa author Susan Holm author Ken Fukuda author Teruko Mitamura 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 2: Short Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-440-8 imrattanatrai-etal-2026-generate https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.5/ 2026-11 49 68 WikiOriginQA: Automated Construction of a QA Dataset with Knowledge Origins for Analyzing Cultural Bias Kento Haneda author Yosuke Kishinami author Ryo Fujii author Keisuke Sakaguchi author Makoto Morishita 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 2: Short Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-440-8 haneda-etal-2026-wikioriginqa https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.6/ 2026-11 69 77 Evaluating Contextually Mediated Factual Recall in Multilingual Large Language Models Yihong Liu author Bingyu Xiong author Hinrich Schuetze 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 2: Short Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-440-8 liu-etal-2026-evaluating-contextually https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.7/ 2026-11 78 87 MortalMATH: Evaluating the Conflict Between Reasoning Objectives and Emergency Contexts Etienne Lanzeray author Stephane Meilliez author Malo Ruelle author Damien Sileo 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 2: Short Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-440-8 lanzeray-etal-2026-mortalmath https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.8/ 2026-11 88 94 Improving Japanese-English Patent Claim Translation via Reasoning and GRPO with Syntactic Reward Shogo Tsujimoto author Katsuki Chousa author Masaaki Nagata 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 2: Short Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-440-8 tsujimoto-etal-2026-improving https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.9/ 2026-11 95 105 Fairness in Prompting: How Demographic Variations Affect Language Model Outputs Ryandito Diandaru author Gleb Kuzmin author Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar author Zeerak Talat author Xudong Han author Haonan Li author Tatsuki Kuribayashi author Artem Shelmanov author Timothy Baldwin 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 2: Short Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-440-8 diandaru-etal-2026-fairness https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.10/ 2026-11 106 126 Breaking the Silence: A Dataset and Benchmark for Bangla Text-to-Gloss Translation Sharif Mohammad Abdullah author Abhijit Paul author Shubhashis Roy Dipta author Zarif Masud author Shebuti Rayana author Ahmedul Kabir 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 2: Short Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-440-8 abdullah-etal-2026-breaking https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.11/ 2026-11 127 136 VIDA: A Dataset for Visually Dependent Ambiguity in Multimodal Machine Translation Jingheng Pan author Xintong Wang author Longyue Wang author Liang Ding author Weihua Luo author Chris Biemann author 2026-11 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Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-440-8 al-hakim-etal-2026-mitigating https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.13/ 2026-11 155 169 A Multilingual Evaluation of LLM-Based High-School Mathematics Assistance Across Indian Languages Yash Kumar author Subhajit Roy 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 2: Short Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-440-8 kumar-roy-2026-multilingual https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.14/ 2026-11 170 184 FahMai-TeleBench: A Thai Grounded Tool-Use Benchmark for the Deployable Model Tier Nutchanon Yongsatianchot author Piyalitt Ittichaiwong author Jitkapat Sawatphol author Tichanat Ruangsiri 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 2: Short Papers) Yue Zhang editor Ruifeng Xu editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Tong Rong editor Jun Suzuki editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-440-8 yongsatianchot-etal-2026-fahmai https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.15/ 2026-11 185 196 Composing Within Constraints: A Benchmark for Thai Classical Poetry in Large Language Models Nutchanon Yongsatianchot author Phuvis Kerdpramote 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 2: Short Papers) Yue 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