Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor 2026-07 Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States text conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 acl-2026-srw https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.0/ Multi-Agent Reasoning Improves Compute Efficiency: Pareto-Optimal Test-Time Scaling Florian Valentin Wunderlich author Lars Benedikt Kaesberg author Jan Philip Wahle author Terry Ruas author Bela Gipp author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 wunderlich-etal-2026-multi https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.1/ 2026-07 1 14 Claim Verification in the Age of Large Language Models: A Survey Alphaeus Dmonte author Roland R Oruche author Marcos Zampieri author Prasad Calyam author Isabelle Augenstein author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 dmonte-etal-2026-claim https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.2/ 2026-07 15 29 Language Directions in Multilingual LLMs: A Layer-wise Diagnostic Study of Token Alignment and Pretraining Imprint JaeSeong Kim author Suan Lee author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 kim-lee-2026-language https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.3/ 2026-07 30 35 Emergence of Minimal Circuits for Indirect Object Identification in Attention-Only Transformers Rabin Adhikari author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 adhikari-2026-emergence https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.4/ 2026-07 36 46 Why Large Language Models can Secretly Outperform Embedding Similarity in Information Retrieval Matei Benescu author Ivo Pascal de Jong author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 benescu-de-jong-2026-large https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.5/ 2026-07 47 59 Detecting Hallucinations in Large Language Models via Internal Attention Divergence Signals Gijs van Dijk author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 van-dijk-2026-detecting https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.6/ 2026-07 60 75 Reflection in the Dark: Exposing and Escaping the Black Box in Reflective Prompt Optimization Shiyan Liu author Qifeng Xia author Qiyun Xia author Yisheng Liu author Xinyu Yu author Rui Qu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 liu-etal-2026-reflection https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.8/ 2026-07 76 109 Thesis Proposal: LLMs post-training for multilingual medical tasks. Instruction-Tuning, Continual-Pretraining or Reasoning? Pietro Ferrazzi author Alberto Lavelli author Bernardo Magnini author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 ferrazzi-etal-2026-thesis https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.9/ 2026-07 110 122 Peek2: Regex-free Byte-level Byte-Pair Encoding Pretokenizer for LLM Inference on Edge Devices Liu Zai author Iraklis A Klampanos author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 zai-klampanos-2026-peek2 https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.10/ 2026-07 123 128 Annotation Entropy Predicts Per-Example Learning Dynamics in LoRA Fine-Tuning Brady Steele author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 steele-2026-annotation https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.11/ 2026-07 129 141 Semantic Contrastive Adaptation for Multimodal Figurative Language Understanding Ayaan Siddiqui author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 siddiqui-2026-semantic https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.12/ 2026-07 142 151 Think Less, Code Better: Probing When Chain-of-Thought Hurts and How to Route Around It Rajarshi Ghoshal author Debadri Basak author Salma Emad Mahmoud Abdelhalim author Pratibha Kaur Arora author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 ghoshal-etal-2026-think https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.13/ 2026-07 152 162 Probing Functional Correctness in Diffusion Language Models Guan-Ming Chiu author Jeng-Yue Liu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 chiu-liu-2026-probing https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.15/ 2026-07 163 172 Thesis Proposal: On the Granularity-Robustness Trade-off in Text-Derived Knowledge Graphs Surawat Pralomram author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 pralomram-2026-thesis https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.17/ 2026-07 173 187 TokLens: A Multilingual Lens on Tokenizer Quality for LLMs Guan-Ming Chiu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 chiu-2026-toklens https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.18/ 2026-07 188 205 Phase Transitions in Affective Meaning Divergence: The Hidden Drift Before the Break Napassorn Litchiowong author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 litchiowong-2026-phase https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.19/ 2026-07 206 224 Sycophantic Anchors: Localizing and Quantifying User Agreement in Reasoning Models Jacek Duszenko author Przemyslaw Kazienko author Jan Kocon author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 duszenko-etal-2026-sycophantic https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.20/ 2026-07 225 239 NEAT-IR: Neural Explainable Analysis Tool for Information Retrieval Lev Sukherman author Artem Frenk author Nina Klimenkova author Connor Jason author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 sukherman-etal-2026-neat https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.21/ 2026-07 240 246 BanglaSocialBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Sociopragmatic and Cultural Alignment of LLMs in Bangladeshi Social Interaction Tanvir Ahmed Sijan author S M Golam Rifat author Pankaj Partha author Md. Tanjeed Islam author Md Musfique Anwar author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 sijan-etal-2026-banglasocialbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.22/ 2026-07 247 280 Interpretability of LLM Classifiers via the Rational Inattention Theory with Application to Hate Speech Detection Yuan Zhao author Ali Abdi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 zhao-abdi-2026-interpretability https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.23/ 2026-07 281 289 The Shape of Vulnerability: How Adversarial Perturbations Reshape the Topology of Language Model Latent Spaces Angelina Tsai author Shreya Subramanian author Catherine Liu author Kimberly Lopez author Leif Zinn-Brooks author Alexia E Schulz author Adaku Uchendu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 tsai-etal-2026-shape https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.24/ 2026-07 290 306 LLM-based Literal Example Generation for Japanese Multiword Expressions Mio Ohashi author Hajime Kiyama author Zhidong Ling author Mamoru Komachi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 ohashi-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.25/ 2026-07 307 325 Presentation Slide Translation and Layout Error Correction by LLMs Futo Kajita author Nobuyori Nishimura author Takehito Utsuro author Naoki Muto author Chee Siang Leow author Hiromitsu Nishizaki author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 kajita-etal-2026-presentation https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.26/ 2026-07 326 339 Constructing a Japanese Rap Lyric Generation Model with GRPO Hayato Ogawa author Daisuke Kawahara author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 ogawa-kawahara-2026-constructing https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.27/ 2026-07 340 351 Tracking the Evolution of Foresight Signals in News Data: The Case of the European Electric Vehicle Market Karine Navasartian author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 navasartian-2026-tracking https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.28/ 2026-07 352 362 Debiasing Logical Fallacy Detection for Real-World Robustness via Counterfactually Augmented Data Navyansh Singh author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 singh-2026-debiasing https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.30/ 2026-07 363 374 Bring Linguistics Back to Cryptanalysis: Using Attestation to Break the Advanced Encryption Standard Madeline Boese author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 boese-2026-bring https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.31/ 2026-07 375 382 Garden Path Recovery in Causal and Masked Language Models Sanjan Baitalik author Rajashik Datta author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 baitalik-datta-2026-garden https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.32/ 2026-07 383 392 Confidence as a Tie-Breaker: Reassessing Multilingual Hedging Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation Rajashik Datta author Sanjan Baitalik author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 datta-baitalik-2026-confidence https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.33/ 2026-07 393 402 BanglaSTEM: A Parallel Corpus and Term-Weighted Evaluation for Technical Bangla-English Translation Kazi Reyazul Hasan author A B M Alim Al Islam author Muhammad Abdullah Adnan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 hasan-etal-2026-banglastem https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.34/ 2026-07 403 412 Disentangling the Effects of Unlearning in Measuring Parametric Faithfulness of Chain-of-Thought Ryo Mitsuhashi author Gaku Morio author Ayana Niwa author Masahiro Kaneko author Kentaro Inui author Terufumi Morishita author Yuta Koreeda author Yasuhiro Sogawa author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 mitsuhashi-etal-2026-disentangling https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.36/ 2026-07 413 419 FedPAGR: Federated Prototype Alignment via Geometric Refinement for Heterogeneous Architectures Kris Prasad author Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 prasad-khan-2026-fedpagr https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.37/ 2026-07 420 427 Sentiment Analysis of Yelp Review Dataset: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning Methods Krishna Thakar author Mohamed Abu Sheha author Emmanuel Thompson author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 thakar-etal-2026-sentiment https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.38/ 2026-07 428 437 Semantic Span Annotation: An Exploratory Study of LLM Annotation Tejas Goyal author Dhriti Krishnan author Anuj Gupta author Jaromir Savelka author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 goyal-etal-2026-semantic https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.39/ 2026-07 438 449 Thesis Proposal: An Explainable Multimodal Framework for Detecting Harmful Content in Code-Switched Children’s Media Juliana Isabelle A Guillermo author Jasper Kyle Catapang author Nathaniel Oco author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 guillermo-etal-2026-thesis https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.40/ 2026-07 450 462 Test-Time Strategies for More Efficient and Accurate Agentic RAG Abhinav Sharma author Brian Zhang author Deepti Guntur author Zhiyang Zuo author Shreyas Chaudhari author Wenlong Zhao author Franck Dernoncourt author Puneet Mathur author Ryan A Rossi author Nedim Lipka author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 sharma-etal-2026-test https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.41/ 2026-07 463 469 Eye Movement Features Can Predict Human Preferences on Machine-Generated Texts Xiaoshan He author Xiaoqun Liu author Haodong He author Yu Wang author Yang Xu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 he-etal-2026-eye https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.42/ 2026-07 470 486 Thesis Proposal: Diagnosing and Mitigating Semantic Interference in Script-Sharing Low-Resource Language Models: A Case Study on Square Bai Script Jingting Zheng author Deyi Xiong author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 zheng-xiong-2026-thesis https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.43/ 2026-07 487 497 Does Locality Cost in Polish Medical Text Classification? Duplicate-Aware Evaluation of Federated Learning Daniel Cieślak author Andrzej Czyżewski author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 cieslak-czyzewski-2026-locality https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.44/ 2026-07 498 508 Analyzing Hate Speech Amplification on Fringe Platforms Anika Ghosh Basu author Humberto Jesus Carlon author Junyi Liu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 basu-etal-2026-analyzing https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.45/ 2026-07 509 514 The Silence of the Facts: Popularity as a Barrier to Machine Unlearning Anna Borisiuk author Andrey Savchenko author Alexander Panchenko author Elena Tutubalina author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 borisiuk-etal-2026-silence https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.46/ 2026-07 515 526 Leakage-Aware User-Level ADHD Signal Classification from Social Media: When Graph Aggregation Helps, and When It Does Not Daniel Cieślak author Władysław Średniawa author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 cieslak-sredniawa-2026-leakage https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.47/ 2026-07 527 536 CAL-Log: Cost-Aware Active Learning with Logarithmic Cognitive Effort Modeling and Online Adaptation to Human Annotation Behavior Vihanga Supasan Kariyakaranage author Banuka Athuraliya author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 kariyakaranage-athuraliya-2026-cal https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.48/ 2026-07 537 553 Thesis Proposal: Targeted and Unified Cross-Lingual Unlearning from Multilingual Language Models Jan Bronec author Jindřich Helcl author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 bronec-helcl-2026-thesis https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.49/ 2026-07 554 562 Counterspeech Generation using Small Language Models Abubakar Sadiq Muhammad author Simona Frenda author Gavin Abercrombie author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 muhammad-etal-2026-counterspeech https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.52/ 2026-07 581 594 From Graphs to Hypergraphs: Enhancing Aspect-Term Sentiment Analysis via Multi-Level Relational Modeling Omkar Mahesh Kashyap author Padegal Amit author Madhav Kashyap author Ashwini M Joshi author Shylaja S S author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 kashyap-etal-2026-graphs https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.53/ 2026-07 595 608 Probing Bias Formation in Medical LLMs through Activation Steering Bayram Ayadi author Annette Hautli-Janisz author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 ayadi-hautli-janisz-2026-probing https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.54/ 2026-07 609 620 Faithfulness Beyond Plausibility: Auditing Human Explanations in Educational Assessment Ria Talsania author Dhruv Ritesh Shah author Sudhir Dhage author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 talsania-etal-2026-faithfulness https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.55/ 2026-07 621 631 CBAL: Context-Based Agentic Learning for Speaker Diarization Segmentation Refinement Odwitiyo Dutta author Dinesh K Vishwakarma author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 dutta-vishwakarma-2026-cbal https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.58/ 2026-07 632 647 Measuring and Mitigating Shortcut Reliance in Language Models with Probe-Based Representation Entanglement Divyajot Singh author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 singh-2026-measuring https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.59/ 2026-07 648 662 LAMP-MedQA: A Lightweight Multi-Agent System for Patient-Oriented Medical Question Answering Jack A Johnson author Meghali Banerjee author Joseph Crawford author James Welch author Jim Davies author Tingyan Wang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 johnson-etal-2026-lamp https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.60/ 2026-07 663 674 Inference-Time Feedback for Reasoning Controllability in Diffusion Language Models Clovis Barbour author Huixin Zhan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 barbour-zhan-2026-inference https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.61/ 2026-07 675 682 Disentangling Linguistic Relatedness from Task Alignment in Cross-Lingual Transfer Ahmed Haj Ahmed author Ruochen Zhang author Alvin C Grissom II author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 ahmed-etal-2026-disentangling https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.62/ 2026-07 683 700 PE-QAT: Parameter-Efficient Quantization-Aware Training for Large Language Models Shresth Mishra author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 mishra-2026-pe https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.63/ 2026-07 701 711 Fusion Training for Mathematical Generalization in Large Language Models Congfeng Cao author Pengyu Zhang author Jelke Bloem author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 cao-etal-2026-fusion https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.64/ 2026-07 712 724 Does Topic Sentiment Cause Perceived Ideology? Comparing Human and LLM Annotations in Political News Articles Upasana Chatterjee author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 chatterjee-2026-topic https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.65/ 2026-07 725 740 Understanding Conversational Implicatures in Humans and LLMs Daeun Kang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 kang-2026-understanding https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.66/ 2026-07 741 753 Thesis Proposal: Self-Adaptive and Epistemic Uncertainty-Guided ASR of Dense Intra-Sentential Code-Switched Speech for African Low-Resource Languages Umar Baba Umar author Sulaimon Adebayo Bashir author Abdulmalik Danlami Mohammed author Amina Gogo Tafida author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 umar-etal-2026-thesis https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.67/ 2026-07 754 763 RegTrack: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Multi-Class Legal Change Detection Joe Yu author Kevin Chenhao Li author Julian Ostarek author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 yu-etal-2026-regtrack https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.68/ 2026-07 764 778 Validator-Guided Hard Negative Mining for Masked Language Modeling in Low-Resource Ancient Languages Andrei Voinea author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 voinea-2026-validator https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.69/ 2026-07 779 790 Conformal LLM Routing with Distribution-Free Safety Guarantees Iqtedar Uddin author André Bauer author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 uddin-bauer-2026-conformal https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.70/ 2026-07 791 799 Supervision versus Demonstration-Based In-Context Learning for Multiword Expression Classification Sercan Karakaş author Yusuf Şimşek author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 karakas-simsek-2026-supervision https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.71/ 2026-07 800 815 When Models Hesitate: Answer Instability as a Label-Free Uncertainty Signal for LLMs Jasper Meynard Arana author Kristine Ann M Carandang author Ethan Robert Casin author Christian Alis author Christopher Monterola author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 arana-etal-2026-models https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.72/ 2026-07 816 826 Thesis Proposal: Toward a Human-Centered and Perspective-Aware Framework for Reproducible ML Evaluation and AI Alignment Deepak Pandita author Christopher M Homan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 pandita-homan-2026-thesis https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.74/ 2026-07 827 843 One Panel Does Not Fit All: Case-Adaptive Multi-Agent Deliberation for Clinical Prediction Yuxing Lu author Yushuhong Lin author Jason Zhang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 lu-etal-2026-one https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.75/ 2026-07 844 860 LLMs for Now, Fine-Tuning for Later: An Ensemble Approach to Data Drift in Domain-Specific Tasks Yuxuan Lu author Bingsheng Yao author Shao Zhang author Yisi Sang author Yun Wang author Hansu Gu author Peng Zhang author Tun Lu author Toby Jia-Jun Li author Dakuo Wang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 lu-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.77/ 2026-07 861 876 Thesis Proposal: When Does an Agent Know It Is Lost? Confidence Trajectory Analysis for Tool-Using LLMs Zhenjiang Mao author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 mao-2026-thesis https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.78/ 2026-07 877 887 Task Assignment meets Annotator Modeling: Human-LLM Collaborative Annotation with Constraints Kei Moriyama author Kouta Nakayama author Yukino Baba author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 moriyama-etal-2026-task https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.79/ 2026-07 888 902 Dynamic Meta-Metrics: Source-Sentence Conditioned Weighting for MT Evaluation Luke Zhang author Justin Vasselli author Aditya Khan author York Hay Ng author En-Shiun Annie Lee author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 zhang-etal-2026-dynamic https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.80/ 2026-07 903 912 Tonal Salience in Cognitive Decline: In-Context MCI Detection with Multimodal LLMs Christopher Song author Abdullah P Rashed Ahmed author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 song-ahmed-2026-tonal https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.81/ 2026-07 913 922 What Moves the Pareto Frontier in Tool-Using Agents? A Compute-Aware Study of ReAct Variants Rishi N Simhadri author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 simhadri-2026-moves https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.82/ 2026-07 923 940 Filling the Long Tail: Structure-Aware Curriculum-Gap Completion for Medical Education with LLMs Wenjie Lin author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 lin-2026-filling https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.83/ 2026-07 941 950 Mechanistic Analysis Of Universality: Numerical Comparison Circuits Across Transformer Architectures Arya Bhardia author Julian Ramirez author Siddhanta Verma author Karen Mkrtchyan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 bhardia-etal-2026-mechanistic https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.84/ 2026-07 951 967 How Hard is Math? Using Quantitative Metrics to Measure LLM Alignment to Human Intuitions of Difficulty Micah Helzerman author Steven R Wilson author Cam McLeman author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 helzerman-etal-2026-hard https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.85/ 2026-07 968 981 Fine-Grained Semantic Comparison of Legal Documents using LLMs Elisei Rykov author Nikolay Ivanov author Maria Bandulevich author Kseniia Petrushina author Valentin Malykh author Vasily Konovalov author Alexander Panchenko author Ilseyar Alimova author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 rykov-etal-2026-fine https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.86/ 2026-07 982 994 From Fluent to Useful: Generative AI That Models Purpose, Audience, and Presenter for Scientific Communication Ishani Mondal author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 mondal-2026-fluent https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.87/ 2026-07 995 1006 Beyond Discrete Search: Divergent Thinking as Intention Optimization in Latent Space Mateusz Bystroński author Grzegorz Piotrowski author Tomasz Jan Kajdanowicz author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 bystronski-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.88/ 2026-07 1007 1016 Boosting Self-Consistency with Ranking Maria Marina author Daniil Moskovskiy author Sergey Pletenev author Mikhail Salnikov author Alexander Panchenko author Viktor Moskvoretskii author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 marina-etal-2026-boosting https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.89/ 2026-07 1017 1032 LLM-Based Zero-Shot Soft Labeling for Anticipating Disagreement in Negotiation Dialogues Ken Watanabe author Katsuhide Fujita author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 watanabe-fujita-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.90/ 2026-07 1033 1051 Analysis of the Neglect-Zero Effect in Large Language Models Jin Tanaka author Daiki Matsuoka author Ryoma Kumon author Hitomi Yanaka author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 tanaka-etal-2026-analysis https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.91/ 2026-07 1052 1064 Morphology-Aware Multi-Granularity Representation Learning for Agglutinative Languages Zhonghao Zhang author Na Liu author Jiajia Ma author Nier Wu author Guiping Liu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 zhang-etal-2026-morphology https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.92/ 2026-07 1065 1073 Processing Inconsistency Predicts Language Competence: LLM Evaluation Without Answer Labels on Turkic Languages Ilya Galyukshev author Ilseyar Alimova author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 galyukshev-alimova-2026-processing https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.94/ 2026-07 1074 1086 TableMBR: Minimum Bayes Risk Table Generation Based on Structural Consistency Daiki Yoshida author Hiroyuki Deguchi author Yusuke Sakai author Hidetaka Kamigaito author Taro Watanabe author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 yoshida-etal-2026-tablembr https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.95/ 2026-07 1087 1102 Through the Looking Glass of Multilingual AI: Contrasting Language- and Name Script-Dependent Ethnic Hierarchies in GPT and DeepSeek Annabella Sakunkoo author Jonathan Sakunkoo author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 sakunkoo-sakunkoo-2026-looking https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.96/ 2026-07 1103 1114 Thesis Proposal: Auditing and Mitigating Demographic Bias in Multi-Stage Retrieval Systems for Criminal Justice Applications Archan Dutta author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 dutta-2026-thesis https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.97/ 2026-07 1115 1124 Contextual Diversity Measure (CDM) for Controllable Story Generation in Large Language Models Richard Susilo author Hanna Suominen author Patrik Haslum author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 susilo-etal-2026-contextual https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.98/ 2026-07 1125 1138 Constructing a Japanese Verdict Prediction Dataset for Fact-Checking of LLM-Generated Texts Miwa Masano author Hirokazu Kiyomaru author Atsushi Keyaki author Kaito Horio author Rei Minamoto author Ribeka Keyaki author Kouta Nakayama author Hideyuki Tachibana author Daisuke Kawahara author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 masano-etal-2026-constructing https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.99/ 2026-07 1139 1151 Calibration vs Decision Making: Revisiting the Reliability Paradox in Unlearned Language Models Divyaksh Shukla author Ashutosh Modi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 shukla-modi-2026-calibration https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.100/ 2026-07 1152 1168 Disentangling Meaning and Language Components in Diverse Multilingual Sentence Embeddings Kanade Nonomura author Keita Fukushima author Risa Kondo author Tomoyuki Kajiwara author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 nonomura-etal-2026-disentangling https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.102/ 2026-07 1169 1176 Linguistically-Informed Evaluation of LLMs on Acceptability Judgments in a Forced-Choice Paradigm Ziyue Liu author Nils Reiter author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 liu-reiter-2026-linguistically https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.103/ 2026-07 1177 1189 Representing Lean Proofs as Trajectories in Latent Space Elisaveta Samoylov author Soroush Vosoughi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 samoylov-vosoughi-2026-representing https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.105/ 2026-07 1190 1202 Evaluation of Multilingual Ability to Use Spatial Deictic Expressions in Vision-Language Models Kaito Watanabe author Taisei Yamamoto author Tomoki Doi author Hitomi Yanaka author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 watanabe-etal-2026-evaluation https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.106/ 2026-07 1203 1211 LLM Parameters for Math Across Languages: Shared or Separate? Behzad Shomali author Luisa Victor author Tim Selbach author Ali Hamza Bashir author David Berghaus author Joachim Koehler author Mehdi Ali author Markus Frey author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 shomali-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.107/ 2026-07 1212 1235 Thesis Proposal: Intentional Inference for Insight Generation Kristýna Onderková author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 onderkova-2026-thesis https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.109/ 2026-07 1236 1252 Reference-Free Schema Generation for Literature Review Tables via Multi-Faceted Rewards Sinjoy Saha author Suman Saha author Mahfuza Farooque author Wenpeng Yin author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 saha-etal-2026-reference https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.111/ 2026-07 1253 1261 Factual State Discovery Benchmark: Evaluating Fact Elicitation in Polish Tax Law Mateusz Bystroński author Kamil Tagowski author Denis Janiak author Julia Farganus author Lukasz Augustyniak author Monika Kajdanowicz author Tomasz Jan Kajdanowicz author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 bystronski-etal-2026-factual https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.114/ 2026-07 1262 1279 Evolutionary Search for Automated Design of Uncertainty Quantification Methods Mikhail Seleznyov author Daniil Korbut author Viktor Moskvoretskii author Oleg Somov author Alexander Panchenko author Elena Tutubalina author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 seleznyov-etal-2026-evolutionary https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.115/ 2026-07 1280 1290 Thesis Proposal: A Normalization-First Framework for Sound, Complete, and Utility-Ready Open Information Extraction Chandan Prakash author Pavan Kumar Chittimalli author Arnab Bhattacharya author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 prakash-etal-2026-thesis https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.116/ 2026-07 1291 1304 Mind the Gap: Multilingual Divide in LLM Bias Detection and Reasoning Medha Hira author Prachi Goyal author Raj Maheshwari author Arnav Goel author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 hira-etal-2026-mind https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.117/ 2026-07 1305 1316 Multi-Constraint State Tracking with Negation: A Diagnostic Benchmark for LLM World Modeling Ayan Sar author Pranav Singh Puri author Sumit Aich author Anurag Kaushish author Tanupriya Choudhury author Ajith Abraham author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 sar-etal-2026-multi https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.119/ 2026-07 1317 1350 Learning Shortcut Models for Efficient Recursive Reasoning Shiv Shankar author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 shankar-2026-learning https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.120/ 2026-07 1351 1360 The Confident Liar: Diagnosing Multi-Agent Debate with Log-Probabilities and LLM-as-Judge Ali Keramati author Justin Cheok author Jacob Horne author Mark Warschauer author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-393-7 keramati-etal-2026-confident https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-srw.121/ 2026-07 1361 1375 Convergent Demographic Utility Hierarchies: Geometry of Intersectional Values in LLMs Pravish Sainath author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) Santosh T.Y.S.S. editor Juan Diego Rodriguez editor Ona de Gibert editor Association for Computational 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