Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics

Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor 2026-05 ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) text conference publication cmcl-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.0/ Transformer Attention as a Unified Model of Encoding and Retrieval in Human Sentence Processing Dan Parker author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication parker-2026-transformer 10.63317/5mv4jv4mi7em https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.1/ 2026-05 1 9 ChineseDevBench: A Chinese Developmental Benchmark for Language Development Shaonan Wang author Yiwen Wu author Na Li author Zesheng Chen author Gan Wang author Shuchen Zhang author Xin Sun author Luan Li author Yaran Chen author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication wang-etal-2026-chinesedevbench 10.63317/2an6vr7tp5hn https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.2/ 2026-05 10 24 Predicting Sentence Acceptability Judgments in Multimodal Contexts Hyewon Jang author Nikolai Ilinykh author Sharid Loaiciga author Jey Han Lau author Shalom Lappin author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication jang-etal-2026-predicting 10.63317/42qzv829p3s6 https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.3/ 2026-05 25 34 ToM in LLM is not ToM, but a Pragmatic Effect Agnese Lombardi author Alessandro Lenci author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication lombardi-lenci-2026-tom 10.63317/2hibhh6ti88d https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.4/ 2026-05 35 47 What Kind of Language is Easy to Language-Model Under Curriculum Learning? Nadine El-Naggar author Tatsuki Kuribayashi author Ted Briscoe author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication el-naggar-etal-2026-kind 10.63317/3bux4hskbgcg https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.5/ 2026-05 48 59 Modeling semantic association in self-paced reading with language model embeddings Sara Møller Østergaard author Kenneth Enevoldsen author Afra Alishahi author Bruno Nicenboim author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication ostergaard-etal-2026-modeling 10.63317/5hz52qgp2gdn https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.6/ 2026-05 60 73 Character-aware Transformers Learn an Irregular Morphological Pattern Yet None Generalize Like Humans Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao author Kevin Tang author Dinah Baer-Henney author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication kakolu-ramarao-etal-2026-character 10.63317/3ovkb8stpc2h https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.7/ 2026-05 74 85 Comparing Transformer Model Interpretability with Human Cognition: A Dual Analysis of Attention and Attribution Lingchen Kong author Jinnie Shin author Pavlo Antonenko author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication kong-etal-2026-comparing 10.63317/38zdp2f7ohmo https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.8/ 2026-05 86 98 Correlating Language Model Surprisal With Cloze and Plausibility: Getting the Best of Both Measures Kate Rebecca Belcher author Matthew Crocker author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication rebecca-belcher-crocker-2026-correlating 10.63317/54ndyxaguxbc https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.9/ 2026-05 99 109 Is Cross-Lingual Transfer in Bilingual Models Human-Like? A Study with Overlapping Word Forms in Dutch and English Iza Škrjanec author Irene Elisabeth Winther author Vera Demberg author Stefan L Frank author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication skrjanec-etal-2026-cross 10.63317/29mhg9umxszj https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.10/ 2026-05 110 123 Brain-to-Text Decoding with Brain Atlases and Brain Foundation Models Haruka Akama author Ryo Yoshida author Max Müller-Eberstein author Yohei Oseki author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication akama-etal-2026-brain 10.63317/2g3i568sqo6p https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.11/ 2026-05 124 144 Floating or Suggesting Ideas? A Large-Scale Contrastive Analysis of Metaphorical and Literal Verb–Object Constructions Prisca Piccirilli author Alexander Fraser author Sabine Schulte im Walde author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication piccirilli-etal-2026-floating 10.63317/29k8t89grr9b https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.12/ 2026-05 145 161 Headlines You Won’t Forget: Can Pronoun Insertion Increase Memorability? Selina Meyer author Magdalena Abel author Michael Roth author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication meyer-etal-2026-headlines 10.63317/4idzgbfzipko https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.14/ 2026-05 172 187 Aggregated Transformer Attention Measures Predict Reading Times Beyond Surprisal Lukas Mielczarek author Laura Kallmeyer author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication mielczarek-kallmeyer-2026-aggregated 10.63317/4xn5igbwvtd5 https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.15/ 2026-05 188 202 ‘Layer su Layer’: Identifying and Disambiguating the Italian NPN Construction in BERT’s family Greta Gorzoni author Ludovica Pannitto author Francesca Masini author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication gorzoni-etal-2026-layer 10.63317/532xoam2mj8s https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.16/ 2026-05 203 220 Teaching LLMs to unveil tendentious implicit contents of Italian political communication Walter Paci author Lorenzo Gregori author Alessandro Panunzi author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication paci-etal-2026-teaching 10.63317/4da4mm3sngm7 https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.17/ 2026-05 221 229 Examining Algebraic Recombination for Compositional Generalisation Joaquin Cardona Ruiz author Antske Fokkens author Lucia Donatelli author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication cardona-ruiz-etal-2026-examining 10.63317/2cuajw7n68ry https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.18/ 2026-05 230 249 Can LLMs Simulate Human Behavioral Variability? A Case Study in the Phonemic Fluency Task Mengyang Qiu author Zoe Brisebois author Siena Sun author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication qiu-etal-2026-llms 10.63317/3ncnwh7mvnfp https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.19/ 2026-05 250 263 Translation from the Information Bottleneck Perspective: an Efficiency Analysis of Spatial Prepositions in Bitexts Antoine Taroni author Ludovic Moncla author Frederique Laforest author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication taroni-etal-2026-translation 10.63317/35xqh9dxbax3 https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.20/ 2026-05 264 275 Causal Inferences Are Driven by Noun Concept Specificity Evidence from Self-Paced Reading and Large Language Model Surprisal Fabian Schlotterbeck author Raphael Barth author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication schlotterbeck-barth-2026-causal 10.63317/27uaw5cm26ib https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.21/ 2026-05 276 285 Topic-context Dependency on Continuous Semantic Reconstruction of Language from fMRI Signals Fermin Travi author Agustin Delmagro author Diego Fernandez Slezak author Bruno Bianchi author Juan E Kamienkowski author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication travi-etal-2026-topic 10.63317/233sezzfxz2m https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.22/ 2026-05 286 292 Disentanglement and Compositionality of Letter Identity and Letter Position in Variational Auto-Encoder Vision Models Bruno Bianchi author Aakash Agrawal author Stanislas Dehaene author Emmanuel Chemla author Yair Lakretz author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication bianchi-etal-2026-disentanglement 10.63317/3btikw97586i https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.23/ 2026-05 293 308 Plausibility as Commonsense Reasoning: Humans Succeed, Large Language Models Do not Sercan Karakas author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication karakas-2026-plausibility 10.63317/4o4ggm999h5o https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.24/ 2026-05 309 328 Benchmarking Source-Sensitive Reasoning in Turkish: Humans and LLMs under Evidential Trust Manipulation Sercan Karakas author Yusuf Şimşek author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication karakas-simsek-2026-benchmarking 10.63317/5j8jyoaznrag https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.25/ 2026-05 329 346 Toward Cognitive Alignment in Large Language Models: Integrating Linguistic Theory and Human Data Wajdi Zaghouani author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Byung-Doh Oh editor Tatsuki Kuribayashi editor Giulia Rambelli editor Ece Takmaz editor Philipp Wicke editor Jixing Li editor Ryo Yoshida editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication zaghouani-2026-toward-cognitive 10.63317/5d9kn8b26y4q https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.26/ 2026-05 347 358