Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U)

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor 2026-07 Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA text conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 customnlp4u-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.0/ BAID: A Benchmark for Bias Assessment of AI Detectors Priyam Basu author Yunfeng Zhang author Vipul Raheja author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 basu-etal-2026-baid https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.1/ 2026-07 1 10 Small Language Models for the Democratization of Financial Literacy: Challenges and Opportunities Tagore Rao Kosireddy author Jeffrey David Wall author Evan Lucas author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 kosireddy-etal-2026-small https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.2/ 2026-07 11 23 From Understanding to Engagement: Personalized pharmacy Video Clips via Vision Language Models (VLMs) Suyash Mishra author Qiang Li author Anubhav Girdhar author Srikanth Patil author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 mishra-etal-2026-understanding https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.3/ 2026-07 24 43 Evaluating Customized vs. Generalist Transformer-based Models for Legal Contract Classification Amrita Singh author H Suhan Karaca author Aditya Joshi author Hye-young Paik author Jiaojiao Jiang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 singh-etal-2026-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.5/ 2026-07 44 54 Personalizing News Headlines with Retrieval-Augmented Generation Jiajing Wan author Samia Touileb author Lubos Steskal author Lilja Øvrelid author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 wan-etal-2026-personalizing https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.6/ 2026-07 55 67 Building Multi-turn Intent Classification with LLM-based Labeling Biancen Xie author Kaiqi Bian author Jai Ranjan Singh Gusain author Manikandarajan Ramanathan author Raj Maragoud author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 xie-etal-2026-building https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.8/ 2026-07 68 83 Cross-Tokenizer LLM Distillation through a Byte-Level Interface Avyav Kumar Singh author Yen-Chen Wu author Alexandru Cioba author Alberto Bernacchia author Davide Buffelli author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 singh-etal-2026-cross https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.9/ 2026-07 84 96 Fine-grained Readability Controlled Summarization of Scientific Documents via Control Vectors Isabel Cachola author Kuleen Sasse author Mark Dredze author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 cachola-etal-2026-fine https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.10/ 2026-07 97 116 Building a Custom Taxonomy of AI Skills and Tasks from the Ground Up with Job Postings Stephen Meisenbacher author Peter Norlander author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 meisenbacher-norlander-2026-building https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.11/ 2026-07 117 130 Using Topological Data Analysis to Characterize the Layers of Language Models Before and After Word Substitution Attacks Adam Tang author Catherine Liu author Kimberly Lopez author Shreya Subramanian author Leif Zinn-Brooks author Alexia E Schulz author Adaku Uchendu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 tang-etal-2026-using https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.12/ 2026-07 131 148 Customizing ASR for Language Documentation and Resource Prioritization Alexandra Fort author Shobhana Lakshmi Chelliah author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 fort-chelliah-2026-customizing https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.13/ 2026-07 149 159 Improving Medical Hallucination Detection with System Combination and Rule-based Customization Jonathan Lasko author Damianos Karakos author Francis Keith author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 lasko-etal-2026-improving https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.14/ 2026-07 160 166 Asking the Right Questions: Can expert-prompted LLMs reformulate legal queries from non-experts? Katherine Atwell author Morgan A Gray author Jaromir Savelka author Len Rial author Sera Linardi author Malihe Alikhani author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 atwell-etal-2026-asking https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.15/ 2026-07 167 181 When Valid Signals Fail: Regime Boundaries Between LLM Features and RL Trading Policies Zhengzhe Yang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 yang-2026-valid https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.17/ 2026-07 182 190 Unintended Effects of Geographic Conditioning in Large Language Models Naz Col author David M Chan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 col-chan-2026-unintended https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.18/ 2026-07 191 201 Efficiency vs. Verifiability in Evidence-Aware RAG: Does Prompt Compression Preserve Citation Grounding? Aiyu Li author Qian Peng author Bin Chen author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 li-etal-2026-efficiency https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.19/ 2026-07 202 215 When Gradients Collide: Failure Modes of Multi-Objective Prompt Optimization for LLM Judges Parth Darshan author Abhishek Divekar author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U) Sheshera Mysore editor Sachin Kumar editor Vidhisha Balachandran editor Shirley Anugrah Hayati editor Faeze Brahman editor Hanane Nour Moussa editor Alireza Salemi editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-396-8 darshan-divekar-2026-gradients https://aclanthology.org/2026.customnlp4u-1.21/ 2026-07 216 228