Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor 2026-07 Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States text conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 acl-2026-short https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.0/ Punctuation-Steered Representation Fine-Tuning Zheng Gong author Ying Sun author Ping Li author Yi Zheng author Zhefeng Wang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 gong-etal-2026-punctuation https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.1/ 2026-07 1 8 Does Self-Consistency Improve the Recall of Encyclopedic Knowledge? Sho Hoshino author Ukyo Honda author Peinan Zhang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 hoshino-etal-2026-self https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.2/ 2026-07 9 17 LaMI: Augmenting Large Language Models via Late Multi-Image Fusion Guy Yariv author Idan Schwartz author Yossi Adi author Sagie Benaim author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 yariv-etal-2026-lami https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.3/ 2026-07 18 26 Full-Duplex-Bench-v2: A Multi-Turn Evaluation Framework for Duplex Dialogue Systems with an Automated Examiner Guan-Ting Lin author Shih-Yun Shan Kuan author Jiatong Shi author Kai-Wei Chang author Siddhant Arora author Shinji Watanabe author Hung-yi Lee author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 lin-etal-2026-full https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.4/ 2026-07 27 36 Situated Embedding Models for Context-Aware Dense Retrieval Junjie Wu author Jiangnan Li author Yuqing Li author Lemao Liu author Liyan Xu author Jiwei Li author Dit-Yan Yeung author Jie Zhou author Mo Yu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 wu-etal-2026-situated https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.5/ 2026-07 37 49 Big AI is Accelerating the Metacrisis: What Can We Do? Steven Bird author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 bird-2026-big https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.6/ 2026-07 50 61 From Factuality to Meta-Factivity: A Cognitive Blueprint for Trustworthy LLMs Liu Daohuan author Xia Lun author Yuer Wang author Jiaoyang Su author Xuri Tang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 daohuan-etal-2026-factuality https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.7/ 2026-07 62 69 Attention Sinks Are Provably Necessary in Softmax Transformers: Evidence from Trigger-Conditional Tasks Yuval Ran-Milo author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 ran-milo-2026-attention https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.8/ 2026-07 70 89 A Mechanistic Account of Attention Sinks in GPT-2: One Circuit, Broader Implications for Mitigation Yuval Ran-Milo author Hila Ofek author Shahar Mendel author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 ran-milo-etal-2026-mechanistic https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.9/ 2026-07 90 98 Is a Document Educational or Just Wikipedia-Style? — Pitfalls of Classifier-Based Quality Filtering Mateusz Klimaszewski author Piotr Andruszkiewicz author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 klimaszewski-andruszkiewicz-2026-document https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.10/ 2026-07 99 108 On the Hidden Objective Biases of Group-based Reinforcement Learning Aleksandar Fontana author Marco Simoni author Giulio Rossolini author Paolo Mori author Andrea Saracino author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 fontana-etal-2026-hidden https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.11/ 2026-07 109 121 StructMem: Structured Memory for Long-Horizon Behavior in LLMs Buqiang Xu author Yijun Chen author Jizhan Fang author Ruobin Zhong author Yunzhi Yao author Yuqi Zhu author Lun Du author Shumin Deng author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 xu-etal-2026-structmem https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.12/ 2026-07 122 146 Z3D: Zero-Shot 3D Visual Grounding from Images Nikita Drozdov author Andrey Lemeshko author Nikita Gavrilov author Anton Konushin author Danila Rukhovich author Maksim Kolodiazhnyi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 drozdov-etal-2026-z3d https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.13/ 2026-07 147 154 Improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation without Taxonomy-based Error Categorization Gongbo Zhang author Yifan Peng author Chunhua Weng author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 zhang-etal-2026-improving-retrieval https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.14/ 2026-07 155 165 Deep Kernel Fusion for Transformers Zixi Zhang author Zhiwen Mo author Yiren Zhao author Robert D Mullins author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 zhang-etal-2026-deep https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.15/ 2026-07 166 173 Anchoring Depends on Confidence and Post-Training in Language Models Hillary N Owusu author Naomi H Feldman author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 owusu-feldman-2026-anchoring https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.16/ 2026-07 174 180 LLMs Underperform Graph-Based Parsers on Supervised Relation Extraction for Complex Graphs Paolo Gajo author Domenic Rosati author Hassan Sajjad author Alberto Barrón-Cedeño author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 gajo-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.17/ 2026-07 181 193 Evolutionary Strategies at Scale lead to Catastrophic Forgetting Immanuel Abdi author Akshat Gupta author Micah Mok author Alex Lu author Nicholas Lee author Gopala Anumanchipalli author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 abdi-etal-2026-evolutionary https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.18/ 2026-07 194 204 Too Correct to Learn: Reinforcement Learning on Saturated Reasoning Data Zhenwen Liang author Yujun Zhou author Sidi Lu author Xiangliang Zhang author Haitao Mi author Dong Yu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 liang-etal-2026-correct https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.19/ 2026-07 205 215 Reliable Use of Lemmas via Eligibility Reasoning and Section-Aware Reinforcement Learning Zhikun Xu author Xiaodong Yu author Ben Zhou author Jiang Liu author Jialian Wu author Ze Wang author Ximeng Sun author Hao Chen author Zicheng Liu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 xu-etal-2026-reliable https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.20/ 2026-07 216 226 Attention Under Attack: Analog Noise Effects and Mechanistic Vulnerabilities in Transformer Models Mafizur Rahman author Lijun Qian author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 rahman-qian-2026-attention https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.21/ 2026-07 227 237 ReproEvalCard: A Reporting Standard for Reproducible Evaluation of LLM Pipelines Priyaranjan Pattnayak author Apoorv Bhatia author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 pattnayak-bhatia-2026-reproevalcard https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.22/ 2026-07 238 249 Test-Time Reasoners Are Strategic Multiple-Choice Test-Takers Nishant Balepur author Atrey Desai author Rachel Rudinger author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 balepur-etal-2026-test https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.23/ 2026-07 250 272 MARCH: Multi-Agent Radiology Clinical Hierarchy for CT Report Generation Yi Lin author Yihao Ding author Yonghui Wu author Yifan Peng author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 lin-etal-2026-march https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.24/ 2026-07 273 285 Prefix Parsing is Just Parsing Clemente Pasti author Andreas Opedal author Timothy J O’Donnell author Ryan Cotterell author Tim Vieira author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 pasti-etal-2026-prefix https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.25/ 2026-07 286 309 Privacy-preserving Prosody Representation Learning Kevin Everson author Mari Ostendorf author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 everson-ostendorf-2026-privacy https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.26/ 2026-07 310 315 Enhancing Linguistic Competence of Language Models through Pre-training with Language Learning Tasks Atsuki Yamaguchi author Maggie Mi author Nikolaos Aletras author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 yamaguchi-etal-2026-enhancing https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.27/ 2026-07 316 336 Rethinking Data Mixing from the Perspective of Large Language Models Yuanjian Xu author Tianze Sun author Changwei Xu author XinLong Zhao author Jianing Hao author Ran Chen author Yang Liu author Ruijie Xu author Stephen Chen author Guang Zhang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens 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Calibrating Evaluation Scores for Machine Translation of Extremely Low-Resource Languages Danlu Chen author Ka Sing He author Jiahe Tian author Chenghao Xiao author Zhaofeng Wu author Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick author Freda Shi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 chen-etal-2026-translation https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.29/ 2026-07 350 363 CheckMIABench: Firm Foundations For Membership Inference Attacks on Language Models Jeffrey George Wang author Jason Wang author Marvin Li author Seth Neel author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 wang-etal-2026-checkmiabench https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.30/ 2026-07 364 370 Luring as a Proxy: Evaluating Corpus Transferability for Cybergrooming Detection Shiying Fan author Mareike Bassenge author Martin Steinebach author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 fan-etal-2026-luring https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.31/ 2026-07 371 385 From Narrow Unlearning to Emergent Misalignment in LLMs Erum Mushtaq author Anil Ramakrishna author Satyapriya Krishna author Sattvik Sahai author Prasoon Goyal author Kai-Wei Chang author Tao Zhang author Rahul Gupta author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 mushtaq-etal-2026-narrow https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.32/ 2026-07 386 395 Reliable Evaluation Protocol for Low-Precision Retrieval Kisu Yang author Yoonna Jang author Hwanseok Jang author Kenneth Choi author Isabelle Augenstein author Heuiseok Lim author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 yang-etal-2026-reliable https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.33/ 2026-07 396 409 When More Words Say Less: Decoupling Length and Specificity in Image Description Evaluation Rhea Kapur author Robert D Hawkins author Elisa Kreiss author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 kapur-etal-2026-words https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.34/ 2026-07 410 422 Selective Span-Level Unlearning for Large Language Models Chaewon Yoon author Dongjun Kim author Hyun-Je Song author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 yoon-etal-2026-selective https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.35/ 2026-07 423 431 Calibrated? Not for Everyone: How Sexual Orientation and Religious Markers Distort LLM Accuracy and Confidence in Medical QA Alberto Testoni author Iacer Calixto author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 testoni-calixto-2026-calibrated https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.36/ 2026-07 432 447 DIXITWORLD: Evaluating Multimodal Abductive Reasoning in Vision-Language Models with Multi-Agent Dixit Gameplay Yunxiang MO author Tianshi Zheng author Qing Zong author Jiayu Liu author Baixuan Xu author Yauwai Yim author Chunkit Chan author Jiaxin Bai author Yangqiu Song author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 mo-etal-2026-dixitworld https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.37/ 2026-07 448 462 UERLens: Understanding Event Relations in Large Language Models Yong Guan author Zhiyuan Li author Shaoru Guo author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 guan-etal-2026-uerlens https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.38/ 2026-07 463 471 GOLEMcoref: A Multilingual Coreference Dataset of Fiction Andreas Van Cranenburgh author Xiaoyan Yang author Alvanita author Cecilia Nicole Di Domenico author Maria Ferragud author Arianna Graciotti author Byungjun Kim author Seonyeong Park author Noa Visser Solissa author Xiaoyu Zhou author Federico Pianzola author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 van-cranenburgh-etal-2026-golemcoref https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.39/ 2026-07 472 480 Language-Aware Token Boosting: LLM Language Confusion Reduction Without Tuning Trapoom Ukarapol author Pakhapoom Sarapat author Nut Chukamphaeng author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 ukarapol-etal-2026-language https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.40/ 2026-07 481 489 Pref-CTRL: Preference Driven LLM Alignment using Representation Editing Imranul Ashrafi author Inigo Jauregi Unanue author Massimo Piccardi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 ashrafi-etal-2026-pref https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.41/ 2026-07 490 500 Dark & Stormy: Modeling Humor in Sentences from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Venkata S Govindarajan author Laura Biester author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 govindarajan-biester-2026-dark https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.42/ 2026-07 501 510 The Personalization Trap: How User Memory Alters Emotional Reasoning in LLMs Xi Fang author Weijie Xu author Yuchong Zhang author Scott Nickleach author Stephanie Eckman author Chandan K Reddy author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 fang-etal-2026-personalization https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.43/ 2026-07 511 529 Neuro-Symbolic Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Long-Term Original Character Companionship and Interaction Zhenhan Huang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 huang-2026-neuro https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.44/ 2026-07 530 539 Taming Extreme Tokens: Covariance-Aware GRPO with Gaussian-Kernel Advantage Reweighting Cheng Wang author Qin Liu author Wenxuan Zhou author Muhao Chen author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 wang-etal-2026-taming https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.45/ 2026-07 540 546 On the Rejection Criterion for Proxy-based Test-time Alignment Ayoub Hammal author Pierre Zweigenbaum author Caio Corro author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 hammal-etal-2026-rejection https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.46/ 2026-07 547 554 Defense Against Knowledge Poisoning Attack on GraphRAG Havva Alizadeh Noughabi author Fattane Zarrinkalam author Ali Dehghantanha author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 noughabi-etal-2026-defense https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.47/ 2026-07 555 563 PExA: Parallel Exploration Agent for Complex Text-to-SQL Tanmay Parekh author Ella Hofmann-Coyle author Shuyi Wang author Sachith Sri Ram Kothur author Srivas Prasad author Yunmo Chen author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) Maria Liakata editor Viviane P Moreira editor Jiajun Zhang editor David Jurgens editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-391-3 parekh-etal-2026-pexa https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.48/ 2026-07 564 594 Skill-Aware Data Selection and Fine-Tuning for Data-Efficient Reasoning Distillation Lechen Zhang author Yunxiang Zhang author Wei Hu author Lu Wang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short 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