Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative

Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative Yanai Elazar editor Allyson Ettinger editor Nora Kassner editor Sebastian Ruder editor 2026-07 Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA, USA text conference publication 979-8-89176-416-3 bigpicture-2026-main 10.18653/v1/2026.bigpicture-main.0 https://aclanthology.org/2026.bigpicture-main.0/ From Natural Language to Certified Geometry Proofs: A Survey of LLM-Augmented Verification and Neuro-Symbolic Theorem Proving Ioannis Tzachristas author Georgios Tzachristas author 2026-07 text Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative Yanai Elazar editor Allyson Ettinger editor Nora Kassner editor Sebastian Ruder editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-416-3 tzachristas-tzachristas-2026-natural 10.18653/v1/2026.bigpicture-main.1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.bigpicture-main.1/ 2026-07 1 9 Open Problems Solved by LLMs? A Survey of Verifiable Mathematical Discovery Ioannis Tzachristas author Georgios Tzachristas author Aifen Sui author 2026-07 text Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative Yanai Elazar editor Allyson Ettinger editor Nora Kassner editor Sebastian Ruder editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-416-3 tzachristas-etal-2026-open 10.18653/v1/2026.bigpicture-main.2 https://aclanthology.org/2026.bigpicture-main.2/ 2026-07 10 21 Beyond Hallucination: Reframing LLM Quality Assessment as Task-Output Alignment Andrew Hoblitzell author 2026-07 text Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative Yanai Elazar editor Allyson Ettinger editor Nora Kassner editor Sebastian Ruder editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-416-3 hoblitzell-2026-beyond 10.18653/v1/2026.bigpicture-main.3 https://aclanthology.org/2026.bigpicture-main.3/ 2026-07 22 30 Challenging the Myth: A Research Arc on LLMs as Human Simulacra Simon Münker author Achim Rettinger author Damian Trilling author 2026-07 text Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative Yanai Elazar editor Allyson Ettinger editor Nora Kassner editor Sebastian Ruder editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-416-3 munker-etal-2026-challenging 10.18653/v1/2026.bigpicture-main.4 https://aclanthology.org/2026.bigpicture-main.4/ 2026-07 31 44 Towards Trustworthy AI-Mediated Communication Across Languages and Cultures Dayeon Ki author 2026-07 text Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative Yanai Elazar editor Allyson Ettinger editor Nora Kassner editor Sebastian Ruder editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-416-3 ki-2026-towards 10.18653/v1/2026.bigpicture-main.5 https://aclanthology.org/2026.bigpicture-main.5/ 2026-07 45 59 Challenging Quadratic Attention - A Holistic View On the Rise of Alternative Language Model Architectures Alexander M Fichtl author Jeremias Bohn author Josefin Kelber author Edoardo Mosca author Georg Groh author 2026-07 text Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative Yanai Elazar editor Allyson Ettinger editor Nora Kassner editor Sebastian Ruder editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-416-3 fichtl-etal-2026-challenging 10.18653/v1/2026.bigpicture-main.6 https://aclanthology.org/2026.bigpicture-main.6/ 2026-07 60 81 Why Low-Resource NLP Needs More Than Cross-Lingual Transfer: Lessons Learned from Luxembourgish Fred Philippy author Siwen Guo author Jacques Klein author Tegawendé F Bissyandé author 2026-07 text Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative Yanai Elazar editor Allyson Ettinger editor Nora Kassner editor Sebastian Ruder editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-416-3 philippy-etal-2026-low 10.18653/v1/2026.bigpicture-main.7 https://aclanthology.org/2026.bigpicture-main.7/ 2026-07 82 93 Building Arabic NLP from the Ground Up: Twenty Years of Lessons, Failures, and Open Problems Wajdi Zaghouani author 2026-07 text Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative Yanai Elazar editor Allyson Ettinger editor Nora Kassner editor Sebastian Ruder editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-416-3 zaghouani-2026-building 10.18653/v1/2026.bigpicture-main.8 https://aclanthology.org/2026.bigpicture-main.8/ 2026-07 94 106 Speaking of Language: Reflections on Metalanguage Research in NLP Nathan Schneider author Antonios Anastasopoulos author 2026-07 text Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative Yanai Elazar editor Allyson Ettinger editor Nora Kassner editor Sebastian Ruder editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-416-3 schneider-anastasopoulos-2026-speaking 10.18653/v1/2026.bigpicture-main.9 https://aclanthology.org/2026.bigpicture-main.9/ 2026-07 107 118 Harnessing the Latent Space: From Steering Vectors to Model Calibrators for Control and Trust Nishant Subramani author 2026-07 text Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative Yanai Elazar editor Allyson Ettinger editor Nora Kassner editor Sebastian Ruder editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-416-3 subramani-2026-harnessing 10.18653/v1/2026.bigpicture-main.10 https://aclanthology.org/2026.bigpicture-main.10/ 2026-07 119 130 Language Models as Measurement Apparatus for Culture Kent K Chang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative Yanai Elazar editor Allyson Ettinger editor Nora Kassner editor Sebastian Ruder editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-416-3 chang-2026-language 10.18653/v1/2026.bigpicture-main.11 https://aclanthology.org/2026.bigpicture-main.11/ 2026-07 131 143 Memorisation Meets Compositionality in Natural Language Processing Verna Dankers author 2026-07 text Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative Yanai Elazar editor Allyson Ettinger editor Nora Kassner editor Sebastian Ruder editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, CA, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-416-3 dankers-2026-memorisation 10.18653/v1/2026.bigpicture-main.12 https://aclanthology.org/2026.bigpicture-main.12/ 2026-07 144 159