Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor 2026-10 Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary text conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 findings-2026-emnlp https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.0/ A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: MTQE Rewards for Idioms Improve General Translation Quality Ishika Agarwal author Zhenlin He author Dhruva Patil author Dilek Hakkani-Tür author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 agarwal-etal-2026-rising https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1/ 2026-10 1 12 GI-MIA: Group-Invariant Membership Inference Attacks Against Large Language Models Zichen Song author Farman Ali author Tamer Abuhmed author 2026-10 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Kim author Donghyeon Cho author Gyouk Chu author Minyeong Hwang author Hyeongwon Jang author Changhun Kim author Haechan Kim author Jina Kim author Joowon Kim author Yoonjeon Kim author Kwanhyung Lee author Chanjae Park author Heecheol Yun author Gregor Betz author Eunho Yang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 ryu-etal-2026-reviewscore https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.10/ 2026-10 173 208 Two-Sided State-Space Models for Sequential Recommendation with Non-Random Multimodal Review Feedback Ziwen Pan author Zihan Liang author Ruoxuan Xiong author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics 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Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 alipanah-etal-2026-synthetic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.22/ 2026-10 419 428 Fact-Checking the Jailbreak: A Claim-Level Framework for Structured Misinformation Assessment Jia Yee Tan author Rong Fu author Yongtai Liu author Kaiyi Hu author Simon James Fong author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 tan-etal-2026-fact https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.23/ 2026-10 429 448 Cross-Domain, Multi-Task Data-to-Text Generation without In-Domain Training Data Yifei Song author Kun Efimov-Zhang author Claire Gardent author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: 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Xiqing Chang author Sky Chenwei Wan author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 hou-etal-2026-language https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.229/ 2026-10 4813 4836 Translation Asymmetry in LLMs as a Data Augmentation Factor: A Case Study for 6 Romansh Language Varieties Jannis Vamvas author Ignacio Pérez Prat author Angela Heldstab author Dominic P Fischer author Sina Ahmadi author Rico Sennrich author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 vamvas-etal-2026-translation https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.230/ 2026-10 4837 4861 LitSeg: 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Entropy-KL Divergence-based Token Masking: A Novel Approach for Selective Fine-tuning of Large Language Models Qi Liu author Mingdi Sun author Yongyi He author Zhi Zheng author Tong Xu author Yi Zheng author Zhefeng Wang author Enhong Chen author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 liu-etal-2026-entropy https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.233/ 2026-10 4910 4928 AgenticRec: A Recommendation-Oriented Agentic Framework with Progressive Tool-Integrated Reasoning Optimization Tianyi Li author Zixuan Wang author Guidong Lei author Xiaodong Li author Hui Li author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics 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Lei Chen author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 xu-etal-2026-survey-secure https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.241/ 2026-10 5072 5095 First Things First: Teaching LLM-Based Agents to Prioritize Must-Haves before Nice-to-Haves Tianjie Ju author Xinyue Xu author Wanxuan Sun author Lingxiao Diao author Gongshen Liu author Zhuosheng Zhang author Cheng Yang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 ju-etal-2026-first https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.242/ 2026-10 5096 5115 Beyond Consensus: Downward Bias and Role Asymmetry in 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2026-10 5449 5463 TeacherGRPO: Closing the Capacity Gap in Reasoning Distillation via Teacher Alignment Zhenyu Lei author Zihan Chen author Yaochen Zhu author Shangbin Feng author Zaiyi Zheng author Ruocheng Guo author Yushun Dong author Jundong Li author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 lei-etal-2026-teachergrpo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.261/ 2026-10 5464 5478 Training-Free Visual Potential Field Calibration for Balanced Hallucination Mitigation in MLLMs Guangzong Si author Hao Yin author Xianfei Li author Qing Ding author Tao He author Wenlong Liao author Guodong Guo author Pai Peng author Wentao Zhu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor 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Wenqi Pei author Henry Hengyuan Zhao author Yilai Liu author Jiahao Meng author Chen Han author Ziyu Wang author Hongyang Du author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 pei-etal-2026-tempcloze https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.651/ 2026-10 13676 13693 CEDAR: Automata as Verifiable Interfaces for Language-Guided Embodied Action Lekai Chen author Alvaro Velasquez author Ashutosh Trivedi author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 chen-etal-2026-cedar https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.652/ 2026-10 13694 13710 RIFT: Relation Modeling and Transfer for Visual Figurative Entailment Xiaojian Lou author Qimeng Yang author Hui Song author Yunjing Jiang author Jinmiao Song author Xinjun Pei author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 lou-etal-2026-rift https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.653/ 2026-10 13711 13725 How Much Do LLMs Know About Chinese Zero Pronouns? 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Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 wei-etal-2026-unibrowse https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.667/ 2026-10 14007 14023 Aligning Agentic World Models via Knowledgeable Experience Learning Baochang Ren author Yunzhi Yao author Rui Sun author Shuofei Qiao author Ningyu Zhang author Huajun Chen author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 ren-etal-2026-aligning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.668/ 2026-10 14024 14054 Compiler-Guided Adaptive Proof Search with Cross-Model Synergy on Context-Dependent Theorem Proving Zhuo Liu author Ding Yu author Hangfeng He author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor 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Cai Ke author Xin Liu author Han Zhang author Jiangyue Yan author Zike Yuan author Ling Deng author Yue Yu author Hui Wang author Ruifeng Xu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 ke-etal-2026-thinkflow https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.673/ 2026-10 14126 14141 OViP: Online Vision-Language Preference Learning with Hallucination-Targeted Negatives Shujun Liu author Siyuan Wang author Zejun Li author Jianxiang Wang author Zeng Cheng author Xuanjing Huang author Zhongyu Wei author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 liu-etal-2026-ovip 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cui-niu-2026-cvar https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.687/ 2026-10 14407 14429 Escaping the Frequent Finding Shortcut: Pathology-Aware Curriculum Learning for Radiology Report Generation Ziming Song author Mingyang Shen author Chi Man Vong author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 song-etal-2026-escaping https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.688/ 2026-10 14430 14442 DynSess: Dynamic Session-Level Evaluation and Optimization Framework for Role-Playing Agents Rongsheng Zhang author Jiji Tang author Junnan Ren author Zuyi Bao author Weijie Chen author Ruofan Hu author Tangjie Lv author Zhou Zhao author Yan Zhang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor 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Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 chen-jacucci-2026-lexical https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.849/ 2026-10 17981 17998 CAPO-SLT: Confidence-Aware Policy Optimization for Stable Sign Language Translation Generation Ling Zhou author Yuhao Chen author Lin Cheng author Chengwen Yao author Donghui Sun author Xiaoxin Chen author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 zhou-etal-2026-capo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.850/ 2026-10 17999 18014 EntangleCodec: A Unified Discrete Audio Tokenizer via Semantic-Acoustic Entanglement Hui Li author Yangfan Gao author Junlin Shang author Changhao Jiang author Tao Gui author Qi Zhang author Xuanjing Huang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 li-etal-2026-entanglecodec https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.851/ 2026-10 18015 18031 SCHEDBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Constraint Faithfulness in Natural-Language Combinatorial Scheduling Shrenil Shaun Sharma author Avi Sharma author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 sharma-sharma-2026-schedbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.852/ 2026-10 18032 18052 Implicit Hierarchical Modeling for Cross-System Legal Case Retrieval Zhengjia Zhong author Hongyi Lan author Yuhong Chen author Shengjia Hua author Kaiyan Liang author Xiaodong Li 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editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 qu-etal-2026-dlsa https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1026/ 2026-10 21687 21704 DSFlow: Evolutionary Workflow Optimization for Generalizable LLM-Based Data Science Automation Fan Liu author Tianyu Pang author Chao Du author Hao Liu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 liu-etal-2026-dsflow https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1027/ 2026-10 21705 21720 WaymoQA: A Multi-View Visual Question Answering Dataset for Safety-Critical Reasoning in Autonomous Driving Seungjun Yu author Seonho Lee author Namho Kim author Jaeyo Shin author Junsung Park author Wonjeong Ryu author Raehyuk Jung author Hyunjung Shim 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Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 luo-etal-2026-jaggedbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1145/ 2026-10 24240 24279 BDI-batch: Leveraging Standardized Clinical Questionnaires for Contrastive Learning in Psychological Marker Retrieval Marcos Fernández-Pichel author David E Losada author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 fernandez-pichel-losada-2026-bdi https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1146/ 2026-10 24280 24293 SemFed: Semantic Federated Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous LLM Agents Yuxuan Luan author Zilin Zhao author Yihan Zhang author Wei Wang author Chenyu Sun author Lixiang Li author Haipeng Peng author Chaoning Zhang author Lianku Xie author 2026-10 text 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Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 wu-etal-2026-beyond-visual https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1156/ 2026-10 24454 24470 Evaluating Demographics Effect in Policy-Governed Tool-Using Agents Across Real-World Service Domains Ilias Driouich author Hongliu Cao author Eoin Thomas author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 driouich-etal-2026-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1157/ 2026-10 24471 24492 VisMind: Stateful Synthetic Dialogue for Visual Mid-Training Xinlong Fu author Zihao Zhou author Qiufeng Wang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 fu-etal-2026-vismind https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1158/ 2026-10 24493 24510 EDRAC: Benchmarking Arabic Dialect Reading Comprehension Noor Abo Mokh author Kirill Chirkunov author Teresa Lynn author Nizar Habash author Reham Marzouk author Malik H Altakrori author Younes Samih author Muhammed AbuOdeh author Nour Rabih author Rahaf Ashahrani author Hamad Alshehhi author Hamdan Al-Ali author Muhra AlMahri author Besher Hassan author Mohamed Anwar author Abed Alhakim Freihat author Preslav Nakov author Alham Fikri Aji author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 abo-mokh-etal-2026-edrac 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Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 elkholy-etal-2026-arabic-sentence https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1163/ 2026-10 24634 24652 AutoBackdoor: Automating Backdoor Attacks via LLM Agents Yige Li author Zhe Li author Wei Zhao author Nay Myat Min author Hanxun Huang author Xingjun Ma author Jun Sun author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 li-etal-2026-autobackdoor https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1164/ 2026-10 24653 24672 Prompted Values and Deployed Policies: A Truth–Propriety Diagnostic in Language Models Ziyuan Feng author Ajian Liu author Hui Ma author Yanyan Liang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for 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Liu author Kechen Jiao author Chunyang Xiao author Runsong Zhao author Junhao Ruan author Bei Li author Jiahao Liu author Qifan Wang author Xin Chen author Jingang Wang author Chenglong Wang author Tong Xiao author JingBo Zhu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 liu-etal-2026-teacher https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1172/ 2026-10 24801 24816 Script Choice in LLMs: Evidence for Late-Layer Commitment David Kletz author Sandra Mitrovic author Itay Sabato author Ljiljana Dolamic author Fabio Rinaldi author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 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fan-etal-2026-context https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1192/ 2026-10 25165 25185 AdaptiveGuard: Treating Constraints as Falsifiable Hypotheses for LLM Agents in Dynamic Interactive Environments Pengxiang Liu author Tao Ren author Wei Xiong author Lijie Li author Junjie Wang author Jun Hu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 liu-etal-2026-adaptiveguard https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1193/ 2026-10 25186 25205 Preserving Memory Function in Hybrid Language Models: A Survey of State, Evidence, Access, and Granularity Zhuangfei Hu author Runqing Xu author Yuchen Li author Yongqi Zhang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott 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Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 zhang-etal-2026-endogenous https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1196/ 2026-10 25257 25276 Rethinking Fairness in LLM-Based Recommender Systems: A Survey Song-Duo Ma author Chu Yun Chen author Bang-An Li author Pin-Yu Chen author Shau-Yung Hsu author Yun-Nung Chen author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 ma-etal-2026-rethinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1197/ 2026-10 25277 25296 Enhancing Pun Meme Understanding with Visual Semantic Cues Meng Li author Zhongqing Wang author Guodong Zhou author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 li-etal-2026-enhancing-pun https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1198/ 2026-10 25297 25308 SubtleMemory: A Benchmark for Fine-Grained Relational Memory Discrimination in Long-Horizon AI Agents Wenxuan Wang author Haoyu Sun author Fukuan Hou author Mingyang Song author Weinan Zhang author Yu Cheng author Yang Yang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 wang-etal-2026-subtlememory https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1199/ 2026-10 25309 25359 Beyond Endpoint Gains: A Weight-Delta Audit of Medical Specialization Praphul Singh author Shanu 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Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 yu-etal-2026-memora https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1211/ 2026-10 25551 25600 GRACE: Gradient-guided Coreset Selection for LLM Unlearning Praveen Bushipaka author Andrea D’Angelo author Lucia Passaro author Tommaso Cucinotta author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 bushipaka-etal-2026-grace https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1212/ 2026-10 25601 25620 SocialMaze: A Benchmark for Evaluating and Enhancing Social Reasoning in Large Language Models in Complex Social Environments Zixiang Xu author Yanbo Wang author Yue Huang author Haomin Zhuang author Yujun Zhou author Jiayi Ye author Sixian Li author Zirui Song author Lang Gao author Chenxi Wang author Zhaorun Chen author Wang Pan author Yue Zhao author Jieyu Zhao author Xiangliang Zhang author Xiuying Chen author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 xu-etal-2026-socialmaze https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1213/ 2026-10 25621 25716 SAGE: Answer-Conditioned Uncertainty Targets for Verbal Confidence Alignment Kaiwen Shi author Zheyuan Zhang author Yanfang Ye author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 shi-etal-2026-sage-answer https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1214/ 2026-10 25717 25737 Don’t Box Me In: Dynamic Cultural Adaptation and Cognitive Tracking for Social Understanding Chongyuan Dai author Yaling Shen author Shengeng Tang author Hui Ma author Jinpeng Hu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 dai-etal-2026-dont https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1215/ 2026-10 25738 25759 Active Learners as Efficient PRP Rerankers Jeremías Figueiredo Paschmann author Juan Kaplan author Francisco Nattero author Santiago Mauricio Barron Bucolo author Juan Wisznia author Luciano Del Corro author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 paschmann-etal-2026-active https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1216/ 2026-10 25760 25776 MSQA: A Natively Sourced Multilingual and Multicultural SimpleQA Benchmark Yukai Huang author Xianru Chen author Mingxiang Chen author Xinping Lei author Fangbing Deng author Jin Chen author Jiaheng Liu author Ge Zhang author Wenhao Huang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 huang-etal-2026-msqa https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1217/ 2026-10 25777 25792 UniData: Universal Multimodal Instruction Generation Pipeline Jiaqi Tang author Yi-Feng Wu author Yuting Zhang author Hao LU author Bowen Fu author Qing-Guo Chen author Xiaogang Xu author Yuwei Hu author 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editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 li-etal-2026-complexity-clarity https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1221/ 2026-10 25843 25861 LongTraceRL: Learning Long-Context Reasoning from Search Agent Trajectories with Rubric Rewards Nianyi Lin author Jiajie Zhang author Lei Hou author Juanzi Li author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 lin-etal-2026-longtracerl https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1222/ 2026-10 25862 25882 LoopGuard: Breaking Self-Reinforcing Attention Loops via Dynamic KV Cache Intervention Dongjie Xu author Hao Wu author Weijie Shi author Yue Cui author Yuanjun Liu author Jiawei Li author Haolun MA author An Liu author Jia Zhu author Jiajie Xu 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author Kang-il Lee author Joongbo Shin author Kyomin Jung author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 jang-etal-2026-compcqr https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1225/ 2026-10 25925 25943 GRASP: GRanularity-Aware Search Policy for Agentic RAG Varun Gandhi author Jaewook Lee author Shantanu Todmal author Franck Dernoncourt author Ryan A Rossi author Andrew Lan author Zichao Wang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 gandhi-etal-2026-grasp https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1226/ 2026-10 25944 25975 Unsupervised Domain Specialization for Multimodal Embeddings Ruifeng Hu author Jianxun Lian author Mingqi Wu author Mingyang Zhou author Hao Liao author Naipeng Chao author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 hu-etal-2026-unsupervised https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1227/ 2026-10 25976 25994 Conservative Inference-Time Tuning with an Improvement Guarantee Daiki Chijiwa author Taku Hasegawa author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 chijiwa-hasegawa-2026-conservative https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1228/ 2026-10 25995 26005 DataCross: A 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wu-etal-2026-codr https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1230/ 2026-10 26028 26044 Where LLM Annotators Fail: Label-Free Learning on Graphs with LLMs Safal Thapaliya author Jiatan Huang author Chuxu Zhang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 thapaliya-etal-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1231/ 2026-10 26045 26065 M-GOAL: Toward Accurate and Language-Consistent Reasoning in LLMs via English-Only Post-Training Dingyuan Dai author Yuxi Chen author Jiayuan Wang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 dai-etal-2026-goal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1232/ 2026-10 26066 26084 Chain-of-Trigger: An Agentic Backdoor that Paradoxically Enhances Agentic Robustness Jiyang Qiu author Xinbei Ma author Yunqing Xu author Zhuosheng Zhang author Hai Zhao author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 qiu-etal-2026-chain https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1233/ 2026-10 26085 26106 FactNLI: Dynamic and Automated Fact-Based Augmentation of NLI Benchmarks Yihan Lu author Junzhe Zhang author Huixuan Zhang author Xiaojun Wan author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference 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https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1245/ 2026-10 26353 26367 Abstraction Agent: LLM-Guided Abstraction for Imperfect-Information Games Boning Li author Longbo Huang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 li-huang-2026-abstraction https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1246/ 2026-10 26368 26387 PUMA: Post-Hoc Sparsification of Universal Multimodal Embeddings for Efficient Retrieval Matteo Attimonelli author Alessandro De Bellis author Franco Maria Nardini author Claudio Pomo author Cosimo Rulli author Rossano Venturini author Tommaso Di Noia author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics 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https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1254/ 2026-10 26512 26530 ReContext: Recursive Evidence Replay as LLM Harness for Long-Context Reasoning Yanjun Zhao author Ruizhong Qiu author Tianxin Wei author Yuanchen Bei author Zhining Liu author Lingjie Chen author Ismini Lourentzou author Hanghang Tong author Jingrui He author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 zhao-etal-2026-recontext https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1255/ 2026-10 26531 26548 EMMA: Event-Driven Multimodal Memory System with Multi-Agent Retrieval Ruochen Zhao author Jiazheng Kang author Dongying Lin author Gezi Li author Ting Bai author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond 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Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 patir-etal-2026-dualgauge https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1335/ 2026-10 28295 28319 Hate Is More Than What We See: Precedent-Guided Structured Reasoning for Hateful Video Detection Junyi Chen author Qian Liu author Jing Sun author Yi Zhang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 chen-etal-2026-hate https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1336/ 2026-10 28320 28344 MobileDreamer: Generative Sketch World Model for GUI Agent Yilin Cao author Yufeng Zhong author Zhixiong Zeng author Liming Zheng author Jing Huang author Haibo Qiu author Peng Shi author Wenji Mao author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational 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Jintao Huang author Fengqing Jiang author Radha Poovendran author Zhiqiang Lin author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 huang-etal-2026-cyberchainbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1343/ 2026-10 28476 28491 DRFLOW: A Deep Research Benchmark for Personalized Workflow Prediction Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker author Raymond Li author Muhammad Abdul-Mageed author Laks V S Lakshmanan author Issam H Laradji author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 khondaker-etal-2026-drflow https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1344/ 2026-10 28492 28558 CodeEvolve: an open-source evolutionary framework for algorithmic discovery and optimization Henrique Assumpção author Diego Leonardo Braga Ferreira author Leandro Augusto Lacerda Campos author Fabricio Murai author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 assumpcao-etal-2026-codeevolve https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1345/ 2026-10 28559 28581 The Geometry of Ignorance: Detecting Suppressed Knowledge in LLMs through Activation Fragmentation Adar Peleg author Dvir Alsheich author Tomer Ashuach author Avi Mendelson author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference 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On Transcription Faithfulness in Vision-Language Models Gwang Gook Lee author Kenan E Ak author Jay Mohta author Yan Xu author Dimitrios Dimitriadis author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 lee-etal-2026-vlms https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1368/ 2026-10 29077 29092 CroCo: Cross-Lingual Contrastive Preference Tuning on Self-Generations Mike Zhang author Ali Basirat author Desmond Elliott author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 zhang-etal-2026-croco https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1369/ 2026-10 29093 29120 OmniLayout: A Schematic-Coupled Multimodal Benchmark for Geometric Reasoning in PCB Layout Taiting Lu author Kaiyuan Lin author Mingjia Wang author Haolin Ye author Runze Liu author Yuxin Tian author Vahe Melkonyan author Haoyu Wang author Muchuan Wang author Chufan Hong author Yifan Yang author Sung-Liang Chen author Yi-Chao Chen author Yincheng Jin author Mahanth Gowda author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 lu-etal-2026-omnilayout https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1370/ 2026-10 29121 29147 Thinking While Speaking: Inference-Time Knowledge Transfer for Responsive and Intelligent Conversational Voice Agents Vidya Srinivas author Zachary Englhardt author Vikram Iyer author Shwetak Patel author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 srinivas-etal-2026-thinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1371/ 2026-10 29148 29187 Disappearing Ink: Obfuscation Breaks N-gram Code Watermarks in Theory and Practice Gehao Zhang author Mingzhe Li author Eugene Bagdasarian author Shiqing Ma author Juan Zhai author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 zhang-etal-2026-disappearing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1372/ 2026-10 29188 29219 URBAN-PROTOS: Discrete Semantic Prototypes for Cross-City Region Representation Learning Zihang Xu author Xinshun Feng author Haozhi Xie author Yi Qiao author Liangzhe Han author Leilei Sun author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 xu-etal-2026-urban https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1373/ 2026-10 29220 29235 Deference with attributions in LLM Cascades Lize Pirenne author Gaspard Lambrechts author Norman Marlier author Maxence De La Brassinne Bonardeaux author Gilles Louppe author Damien Ernst author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 pirenne-etal-2026-deference https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1374/ 2026-10 29236 29242 Interpretable Stylistic Variation in Human and LLM Writing Across Genres, Models, and Decoding Strategies Swati Rallapalli author Shannon K Gallagher author Ronald Yurko author Tyler Brooks author Chuck Loughin author Michele Sezgin author Violet Turri author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 rallapalli-etal-2026-interpretable https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1375/ 2026-10 29243 29261 HypoKG: Evidence-Disciplined Biomedical Hypothesis Generation Beyond Endpoint Knowledge Dominic Okonkwo author Adetayo O Okunoye author I Budak Arpinar author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 okonkwo-etal-2026-hypokg https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1376/ 2026-10 29262 29278 Prioritizing the Best: Incentivizing Reliable Multimodal Reasoning by Rewarding Beyond Answer Correctness Mengzhao Jia author Zhihan Zhang author Meng Jiang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 jia-etal-2026-prioritizing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1377/ 2026-10 29279 29295 Why TaylorMLP Fails? 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32287 32307 ReasonMap: Making Implicit Mathematical Knowledge Explicit in Long Chain-of-Thought Traces Haodong Wu author Yuhang He author Yongqi Zhang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 wu-etal-2026-reasonmap https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1517/ 2026-10 32308 32326 VizRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Hypergraph Visualization Yanbin Wei author Yang Chen author Renling Gan author Ziru Liu author Xinyu Fu author Chun Kang author Ning Lu author Rui Liu author Yu Zhang author James Kwok author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 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Evidence Dataset for Chest X-ray Report Generation Yichen Zhao author Zelin Peng author Fenghe Tang author Piao Yang author Yu Huang author Wei Shen author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 zhao-etal-2026-mmrad https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1618/ 2026-10 34435 34452 LSH-RL: Long-Short Horizon Reinforcement Learning for Persona-Level Role-Playing Agents Wenlong Shi author Jianxun Lian author Haiming Qin author Jiwei Zhang author Wei Zhang author Mingyang Zhou author Hao Liao author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 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Honglak Lee author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 khalifa-etal-2026-gaming https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1636/ 2026-10 34789 34825 From Memory to Skills: Evidence-Grounded Governance for Long-Horizon LLM Agents Bo Tang author Yang Zhang author Guomian Zhuang author Wenqiang Wei author Gaoyang Zheng author Lindong Xie author Yanchao Tan author Feiyu Xiong author Qingyu Yang author Edward Chung author Zhiyu li author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 tang-etal-2026-memory https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1637/ 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35183 35210 QO-Bench: Diagnosing Query-Operator-Preserving Retrieval over Typed Event Tuples Mengao Zhang author Xiang Yang author Liu Chang author Tan Tianhui author Ke-Wei Huang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 zhang-etal-2026-qo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1653/ 2026-10 35211 35229 Inside the LLM Word Factory Benzi Busigin author Yuval Pinter author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 busigin-pinter-2026-inside https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1654/ 2026-10 35230 35249 Evaluating Cross-lingual Knowledge 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37138 GREAT: Generalizable Backdoor Attacks in RLHF via Emotion-Aware Trigger Synthesis Subrat Kishore Dutta author Yuelin Xu author Piyush Pant author Xiao Zhang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 dutta-etal-2026-great https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1737/ 2026-10 37139 37170 Compliance, Capability, and Conflict: Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs under System Messages Juan Yeo author Geewook Kim author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 yeo-kim-2026-compliance https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1738/ 2026-10 37171 37188 Trajectory Self-Feedback in Diffusion Language Models: A Systematic Survey Yash Shah author Abhijit Chakraborty author Vivek Gupta author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 shah-etal-2026-trajectory https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1739/ 2026-10 37189 37208 Navigating Intention Reasoning Trees to Guide Agentic Preference Optimization Ziben Yue author Hongyu Yang author Weixin Li author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 yue-etal-2026-navigating https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1740/ 2026-10 37209 37228 SVote-2S: 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37644 SpikeXL: Language-Agnostic Spike Representations for Few-Shot Cross-Lingual Speech Command Recognition Vu Son Tung author Minh-Thuan Bui author Duc-Tho Mai author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 tung-etal-2026-spikexl https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1760/ 2026-10 37645 37657 Learning to Search: A Decision-Based Agent for Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering Zhuohong Chen author ZhengXian Wu author Yunyao Yu author Hangrui Xu author Zirui Liao author Zhifang Liu author Xiangwen Deng author Peng Jiao author Haoqian Wang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, 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Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 nguyen-etal-2026-edward https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1763/ 2026-10 37707 37727 Predictive Language Grounding for Event-Driven Time Series Forecasting via Dual-Path Event Injection Jintao Wu author Xin Xue author Yabin Cao author Peng QI author Su Zhao author Shuai Chen author Wei Lin author Tianyu Chen author Haoyi Zhou author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 wu-etal-2026-predictive https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1764/ 2026-10 37728 37745 HalluPeer: A Taxonomy-driven Benchmark for Detecting Hallucinations in Scientific Peer Reviews Tzu-Ling Lin author Dong-Ting Yao author Teng-Fang Hsiao author 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editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 wu-etal-2026-trajtom https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1775/ 2026-10 37968 37990 Beyond Token-Level Guidance: Inference-Time Alignment of Specialized LLMs via Cross-Family Representation Steering Jin Gan author Xin Li author Jun Luo author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 gan-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1776/ 2026-10 37991 38005 DualES: Internalizing Query-Text Duality for Text-to-ES via Bidirectional Reasoning-Enhanced Supervision Dongge Xue author Yuxiang Wang author Tong Ruan author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 xue-etal-2026-duales https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1777/ 2026-10 38006 38024 IWP: Token Pruning as Implicit Weight Pruning in Large Vision Language Models Dong-Jae Lee author Sunghyun Baek author Junmo Kim author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 lee-etal-2026-iwp https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1778/ 2026-10 38025 38047 SVD-Attention: Efficiently Analyzing Attention Blocks in Transformers Debopam Sanyal author Hongjie Chen author Riya Elizabeth Kuriyan author Arth Tak author Divya Kothandaraman author Akshay Mehra author Joshua Kimball author Alexey Tumanov author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 sanyal-etal-2026-svd https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1779/ 2026-10 38048 38059 Variance-Adaptive Muon: Pre-Orthogonalization Variance Modulation for Efficient Language Model Pretraining Jingru li author Yibo Fan author Huan Li author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 li-etal-2026-variance https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1780/ 2026-10 38060 38081 StoryLens: Preference-Aligned Story Rewriting via Context-Aware Narrative Enrichment Hanwen Cui author Yuting Mei author Yuhang Fu author Dingyi Yang author Qin Jin author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 cui-etal-2026-storylens https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1781/ 2026-10 38082 38099 Spatial Reasoning in Large Vision-Language Models via Egocentric-to-Allocentric Transformation Yoonji Kim author Jieun Kim author Sung-Bae Cho author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 kim-etal-2026-spatial https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1782/ 2026-10 38100 38118 Retrieval-Augmented Agentic Rubric Generation for Reliable Medical Response Evaluation Yinzhu Chen author Abdine Maiga author Hossein A Rahmani author Emine Yilmaz author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 chen-etal-2026-retrieval https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1783/ 2026-10 38119 38142 Make an Offer They Can’t Refuse: Grounding Bayesian Persuasion in Real-World Dialogues without Pre-Commitment Buwei He author Yang Liu author Zhaowei Zhang author Zixia Jia author Yang Yu author Huijia Wu author Zhaofeng He author Zilong Zheng author Yipeng Kang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 he-etal-2026-make 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Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 tian-etal-2026-dual https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1786/ 2026-10 38193 38206 Beyond Objective Equivalence: Constraint Injection for LLM-Based Optimization Modeling on Vehicle Routing Problems Xizi Luo author Changhong He author Dongdong Geng author Chenggong Shi author Yu Mei author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 luo-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1787/ 2026-10 38207 38236 Beyond Scalar Scores: Exploring LLM-based Metrics for Clinical Significance Evaluation in Radiology Reports Qingyu Lu author Ruochen Li author Liang Ding author Yufei Xia author Youxiang Zhu author Dacheng Tao author 2026-10 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xu-etal-2026-harm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1791/ 2026-10 38307 38325 FEPO: Future-Entropy Policy Optimization with Selective Update Modulation Cunjie He author Tianhao Cheng author Zhiqi Li author Jiaxin Gu author Xiaoshuang Huang author Jiayin Cai author Xiaolong Jiang author Yao Hu author Jing Xu author Yuan Qi author Zenglin Xu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 he-etal-2026-fepo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1792/ 2026-10 38326 38343 ConsistKV: Layer Adaptive KV Cache Compression via Cross Layer Consensus Dongjie Xu author Kai Qian author Weijie Shi author Fenglei Jin author Jiajie Xu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li 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editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 jia-etal-2026-hallucination https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1809/ 2026-10 38648 38664 GNMR: Runtime Stability Control for Low-Precision Large Language Model Training Boao Kong author Weichen Jia author Engao Zhang author Guohong Li author Yonghan Dong author Yao Wang author Yaoyuan Wang author Yunke Peng author Kun Yuan author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 kong-etal-2026-gnmr https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1810/ 2026-10 38665 38689 Lost in Sampling: Assessing Lexical Reachability in LLMs via the Word Coverage Score (WCS) Samer Awad author Javier Conde author Carlos Arriaga author Tairan Fu 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Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 liu-etal-2026-rationale https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1816/ 2026-10 38806 38824 ECO-Mem: An Event-Centric Organization Framework for Visibility-Controlled Long-Term Memory Xing Pei author Dandan Song author Zhijing Wu author Yuhang Tian author Jun Yang author Yitian Ma author Yading Li author Xudong Li author Huipeng Ma author Yan Xu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 pei-etal-2026-eco https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1817/ 2026-10 38825 38843 Local Evidence, Global Credit: Visual Evidence-Calibrated Policy Optimization for Multimodal Reasoning Zijing He author Zhongyi Deng author Kankan Lan author C.L.Philip Chen author Zeyu Chen author Enlei Gong author Tong Zhang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 he-etal-2026-local https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1818/ 2026-10 38844 38858 From Bugs to Fixes: Self-Evolving Hierarchical Knowledge Graphs for LLM-Based Code Repair Haoyue Ran author Junguo Zhu author Hongyu Ge author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 ran-etal-2026-bugs https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1819/ 2026-10 38859 38873 MATE: Mobile 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Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 saikia-etal-2026-morphological https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2118/ 2026-10 45155 45167 When Chatbots Accommodate: Auditing the Response Policies of AI Companions in Vulnerable Conversations Minh Duc Chu author Yifan Wu author Zhiyi Chen author Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang author Luca Luceri author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 chu-etal-2026-chatbots https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2119/ 2026-10 45168 45194 Balanced Aggregation: Understanding and Fixing Aggregation Bias in GRPO Zhiyuan Zeng author Jiameng Huang author Zhangyue Yin author Bingrui Li author Jiashuo Liu author Yuhao Wu author Yining Zheng author Ge Zhang 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Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 zhang-etal-2026-ppe https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2123/ 2026-10 45265 45278 TRACER: Trace-Regularized Training Against Indirect Prompt Injection Kshitij Mishra author Salem Lahlou author Nils Lukas author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 mishra-etal-2026-tracer https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2124/ 2026-10 45279 45296 TreeFlash: Parallel AR-Approximation for Faster Speculative Decoding Peer Rheinboldt author Frédéric Berdoz author Roger Wattenhofer author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for 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Nour Jedidi author Yung-Sung Chuang author James R Glass author Jimmy Lin author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 jedidi-etal-2026-dont https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2158/ 2026-10 46159 46172 Beyond Lexical and Syntactic: Better Text Simplicity Analysis Informed by Psycholinguistic Research Benjamin Vendeville author Liana Ermakova author Pierre De Loor author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 vendeville-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2159/ 2026-10 46173 46191 BEiTScore++: Reference-free Image 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46246 Characterizing Opinion Evolution of Networked LLMs Caleb Probine author Yigit Ege Bayiz author Filippos Fotiadis author Samuel Li author Yunhao Yang author Ufuk Topcu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 probine-etal-2026-characterizing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2162/ 2026-10 46247 46271 From Arraignment to Resolution: Transformer Models of Court Cases Kory Rosen author Aron Culotta author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 rosen-culotta-2026-arraignment https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2163/ 2026-10 46272 46291 Gnosis Deepsearch: Structured Search Space Navigation for Complex QA Umut Halil author Le Zhang author Jin Huang author Yuwei Zhang author Xinyu Hou author Andre Melo author Shriram Piramanayagam author Amela Fejza author Ruofei Lai author Yang Ren author Pavlos Vougiouklis author Jeff Z Pan author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 halil-etal-2026-gnosis https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2164/ 2026-10 46292 46315 Mind the Phrase: Annotation and Identification of Multiword Expressions in Grammatical Error Correction Shiva Taslimipoor author Christopher Bryant author Zheng Yuan author Diane Nicholls author Andrew Caines author Paula Buttery author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 taslimipoor-etal-2026-mind https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2165/ 2026-10 46316 46329 CultureScore: Evaluating Cultural Faithfulness in Video Generation Models Anku Rani author Wei Dai author Shravan Nayak author Patricia Maes author Mahdi M Kalayeh author Paul Pu Liang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 rani-etal-2026-culturescore https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2166/ 2026-10 46330 46363 Gradient-Stable Attention Heads Signal LLM Correctness Sophie Ostmeier author Brian Axelrod author Maya Varma author Asad Aali author Yabin Zhang author Magdalini Paschali author Sanmi Koyejo author Curtis Langlotz author Akshay S Chaudhari author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 ostmeier-etal-2026-gradient https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2167/ 2026-10 46364 46380 UI-Oceanus: Scaling GUI Agents with Synthetic Environmental Dynamics Mengzhou Wu author Yuzhe Guo author Yuan Cao author Haochuan Lu author Dfshenzhu author Pingzhe Qu author Xin Chen author Kangqin author Zhongpu Wang author Xiaode Zhang author Xinyi Wang author Wei Dai author Gang Cao author Yuetang Deng author Gong Zhi author Dezhi Ran author Linyi Li author Wei Yang author Tao Xie author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 wu-etal-2026-ui https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2168/ 2026-10 46381 46399 MCompassRAG: Topic Metadata as a Semantic Compass for Paragraph-Level Retrieval Amirhossein Abaskohi author Raymond Li author Gaetano Cimino author Peter West author Giuseppe Carenini author Issam H Laradji author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 abaskohi-etal-2026-mcompassrag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2169/ 2026-10 46400 46422 Spatial Reasoning via Modality Switching Between Language and Symbolic Representations Shreya Rajpal author Tanawan Premsri author Parisa Kordjamshidi author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 rajpal-etal-2026-spatial https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2170/ 2026-10 46423 46458 Humans’ ALMANAC: A Human Collaboration Dataset of Action-Level Mental Model ANnotations for Agent Collaboration Jiaju Chen author Yuxuan Lu author Jiayi Su author Chaoran Chen author Songlin Xiao author Zheng Zhang author Yun Wang author Yunyao Li author Jian Zhao author Tongshuang Wu author Toby Jia-Jun Li author Dakuo Wang author Bingsheng Yao author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 chen-etal-2026-humans https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2171/ 2026-10 46459 46481 Holmes-Graph: A Framework for Probing the Linguistic Competence of Graph-Based Text Embeddings Andric Valdez Valenzuela author Selene Baez Santamaria author Helena Gomez Adorno author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 valenzuela-etal-2026-holmes https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2172/ 2026-10 46482 46493 Debug or Regenerate? Test-Guided Selection for LLM Code Repair Atharv Kulkarni author Archiki Prasad author Vivek Srikumar author Elias Stengel-Eskin author Hyunji Lee author Mohit Bansal author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 kulkarni-etal-2026-debug https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2173/ 2026-10 46494 46508 EMBRACE: Emotion-Based Representation Across Cultures & Expressions Pravin Mote author Carlos Busso author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 mote-busso-2026-embrace https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2174/ 2026-10 46509 46520 SproutRAG: Attention-Guided Tree Search with Progressive Embeddings for Long-Document RAG Amirhossein Abaskohi author Issam H Laradji author Peter West author Giuseppe Carenini author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 abaskohi-etal-2026-sproutrag https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2175/ 2026-10 46521 46535 How Calibration Content Shapes Attention-Based Reranking Petros Karypis author Hossein Rajaby Faghihi author Peter Chen author Rui Zhu author Noveen Sachdeva author Yan Zhu author Julian McAuley author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 karypis-etal-2026-calibration https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2176/ 2026-10 46536 46551 Do LLMs Choose Like Humans? Using Cognitive Theory to Evaluate LLM Decision-Making Johnathan Sun author Andrei Shleifer author Yonatan Belinkov author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 sun-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2177/ 2026-10 46552 46569 Latent Visual Sensitive Fingerprinting for Black-Box Vision–Language Model Tamper Detection Chaoxiang He author Jichen Chai author Hanqing Hu author Yi Wang author Shuo Wang author Hongsheng Hu author Bin Benjamin Zhu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 he-etal-2026-latent https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2178/ 2026-10 46570 46589 A Dataset for Modeling Iterative Problem-Solving Fagun Patel author Sang T Truong author Duc Quang Nguyen author Kazunori Fukuhara author Nick Haber author Ben Domingue author Sanmi Koyejo author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 patel-etal-2026-dataset https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2179/ 2026-10 46590 46620 ReVision: Scaling Computer-Use Agents via Temporal Visual Redundancy Reduction Amirhossein Abaskohi author Yuhang He author Peter West author Giuseppe Carenini author Pranit Chawla author Vibhav Vineet author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 abaskohi-etal-2026-revision https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2180/ 2026-10 46621 46646 PersonaForge: Realistic Multi-Turn User Simulation for Agentic Systems Hanglong Lv author Dawei Zhu author Lei Li author Bowen Ye author Huaqiu Liu author Yifan Song author Bofei Gao author Weimin Xiong author Jinhao Dong author Chenhong He author Lingpeng Kong author Qi Liu author Tong Yang author Fuli Luo author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 lv-etal-2026-personaforge https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2181/ 2026-10 46647 46670 EVA-Bench: A New End-to-end Framework for Evaluating Voice Agents Tara Bogavelli author Gabrielle Gauthier Melancon author Katrina Stankiewicz author Oluwanifemi Bamgbose author Fanny Riols author Hoang H Nguyen author Raghav Mehndiratta author Lindsay Devon Brin author Hari Subramani author Joseph Marinier author Sridhar Krishna Nemala author Anil Madamala author Srinivas Sunkara author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 bogavelli-etal-2026-eva https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2182/ 2026-10 46671 46748 Prompt Optimization with Human Feedback Xiaoqiang Lin author Arun Verma author Zhongxiang Dai author See-Kiong Ng author Patrick Jaillet author Bryan Kian Hsiang Low author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 lin-etal-2026-prompt-optimization https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2183/ 2026-10 46749 46767 Reinforced Internal-External Knowledge Synergistic Reasoning for Efficient Adaptive Search Agent Ziyang Huang author Xiaowei Yuan author Yiming Ju author Haoran Cai author Jun Zhao author Kang Liu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 huang-etal-2026-reinforced https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2184/ 2026-10 46768 46785 CAROB: A Benchmark for Cross-Artifact and Authority-aware Reasoning over Organizational Bundles Eunbin Kim author Hyuk Namgoong author Wooyoung Go author Seungjin Ryu author Sangkeun Jung author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 kim-etal-2026-carob https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2185/ 2026-10 46786 46804 Do Backdoored LLMs Share Internal Trigger Representations? Evidence from Frozen SAE Feature Banks Minjeong Choi author Jaesin Ahn author Heechul Jung author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 choi-etal-2026-backdoored https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2186/ 2026-10 46805 46825 Conditioning Activation Interventions on Evolving Reasoning States in Large Language Models Tae-Won Kim author Hee-Dong Kim author Jumin Han author Seong-Whan Lee author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 kim-etal-2026-conditioning https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2187/ 2026-10 46826 46846 Markovian Generation Chains in Large Language Models Mingmeng Geng author Amr Mohamed author Guokan Shang author Michalis Vazirgiannis author Thierry Poibeau author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 geng-etal-2026-markovian https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2188/ 2026-10 46847 46865 Not Safe for All: Auditing the Dialect Penalty in Text-to-Image Safety Pipelines Minkyu Kim author Juhwan Choi author YoungBin Kim author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 kim-etal-2026-safe https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2189/ 2026-10 46866 46888 TEX: Test-Time Scaling Testing Agents via Execution-based Cross-Validation Akash Gokul author Srijan Bansal author Yingbo Zhou author Semih Yavuz author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 gokul-etal-2026-tex https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2190/ 2026-10 46889 46894 Entropy Meets Importance: A Unified Head Importance–Entropy Score for Stable and Efficient Transformer Pruning Minsik Choi author Hyegang Son author Changhoon Kim author Young Geun Kim author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 choi-etal-2026-entropy https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2191/ 2026-10 46895 46935 Do We Require Large Language Models To Be HHH Aligned For Reasoning, Safety, Value, and Pluralistic? Gautam Siddharth Kashyap author Mark Dras author Usman Naseem author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 kashyap-etal-2026-require https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2192/ 2026-10 46936 46950 C-QUERI: Congressional Questions, Exchanges, and Responses in Institutions Dataset Manjari Rudra author Daniel Magleby author Sujoy Sikdar author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 rudra-etal-2026-c https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2193/ 2026-10 46951 46972 Benchmarking Speech-to-Speech Translation Models Alkis Koudounas author Hayato Futami author Quentin Jodelet author Osamu Take author Shinji Watanabe author Emiru Tsunoo author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 koudounas-etal-2026-benchmarking https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2194/ 2026-10 46973 47008 VisualThink-VLA: Visual Intermediate Reasoning for Effective and Low-Latency Vision-Language-Action Policies Mingjian Gao author Wenqiao Zhang author Yuqian Yuan author Yang Dai author Binhe Yu author Zheqi Lv author Haoyu Zheng author Jiaqi Zhu author Zhiqi Ge author Zixuan Wan author Siliang Tang author Yueting Zhuang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 gao-etal-2026-visualthink https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2195/ 2026-10 47009 47027 MRMAD: A Multi-Round Multi-Audio Benchmark for Evaluating Acoustic Degradation Perception in Large Audio-Language Models Yize Li author Ningyuan Yang author Sile Yin author Sindhuja Thogarrati author Sung-En Chang author Andrew C Singer author Xue Lin author Chuan-Che Huang author Shuo Zhang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 li-etal-2026-mrmad https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2196/ 2026-10 47028 47054 3D Visual Prompting: Empowering 3D-Aware Visual Generation via In-Context Self-Refinement Reina Ishikawa author Fumiaki Sato author Ryo Hachiuma author Taiki Sekii author Hideo Saito author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 ishikawa-etal-2026-3d https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2197/ 2026-10 47055 47075 Control-Data Flow Separation: Stable Prompt Optimization in Multi-Agent LLMs Wentao Zhang author Syed Shariyar Murtaza author Junaid Ahmad Bhatti author Utkarsh Soni author Yifan Nie author Eugene Wen author Yuntian Deng author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 zhang-etal-2026-control https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2198/ 2026-10 47076 47098 Can Omni-models Imagine the Future? A Diagnostic Benchmark for Multimodal World Modeling Junyeob Kim author Jihwan Kim author Minha Jhang author Sungwook Jeon author Hwiyeol Jo author Jeonghoon Kim author Sang-goo Lee author Joosung Lee author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 kim-etal-2026-omni https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2199/ 2026-10 47099 47115 Toward Autonomous Long-Horizon Engineering for ML Research Guoxin Chen author Jie Chen author Lei Chen author Zhao Jiale author Fanzhe Meng author Xin Zhao author Ruihua Song author Cheng Chen author Ji-Rong Wen author Kai Jia author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 chen-etal-2026-toward-autonomous https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2200/ 2026-10 47116 47131 OPERA-MoE: Output-aware Routing Perturbation Alignment via Observable Discrepancy for MoE Quantization Geonho Lee author Hancheol Park author Tae-Ho Kim author Jungwook Choi author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 lee-etal-2026-opera https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2201/ 2026-10 47132 47148 AutoLexSteer: Automatic Contrast Construction for Lexical Activation Steering Shuhe Wang author Lachlan Cowley author Eduard Hovy author Jey Han Lau author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 wang-etal-2026-autolexsteer https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2202/ 2026-10 47149 47174 Knowledge Acquisition During Pre-training? Large Language Models Learn Better With Auxiliary Views Joseph Lee author Yidi Huang author Dokyoon Kim author Shu Yang author Li Shen author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 lee-etal-2026-knowledge https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2203/ 2026-10 47175 47197 Discovery, Articulation and Analysis of Communication Framings Rakshitha Rao Ailneni author Sanda M Harabagiu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 ailneni-harabagiu-2026-discovery https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2204/ 2026-10 47198 47242 OpenSeal: Good, Fast, and Cheap Construction of an Open-Source Southeast Asian LLM via Parallel Data Tan Sang Nguyen author Muhammad Reza Qorib author Hwee Tou Ng author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 nguyen-etal-2026-openseal https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2205/ 2026-10 47243 47257 Depth as Verifiable Geometric Feedback: Enhancing Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models Yepeng Zhang author Ruohang Xu author Zihao Yue author Boshen Xu author Qin Jin author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 zhang-etal-2026-depth https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2206/ 2026-10 47258 47274 The Interplay of Harness Design and Post-training in LLM Agents Kyungmin Kim author Youngbin Choi author Seoyeon Lee author Suhyeon Jun author Dongwoo Kim author Sangdon Park author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 kim-etal-2026-interplay https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2207/ 2026-10 47275 47299 Proactive Safety Alignment: Enabling Proactive Initiative in Multi-Turn Defence Mengyuan Qin author Yue Feng author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 qin-feng-2026-proactive https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2208/ 2026-10 47300 47311 MetaCLASS: Metacognitive Coaching for Learning with Adaptive Self-regulation Support Naiming Liu author Richard Baraniuk author Shashank Sonkar author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 liu-etal-2026-metaclass https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2209/ 2026-10 47312 47340 EMR-AGENT: An LLM Agent Framework for Cohort and Feature Extraction from Heterogeneous EHR Databases Kwanhyung Lee author Sungsoo Hong author Joonhyung Park author Jeonghyeop Lim author Juhwan Choi author Donghwee Yoon author Eunho Yang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 lee-etal-2026-emr https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2210/ 2026-10 47341 47373 Revisiting Complete Reasoning Traces for Post-Training Jaehui Hwang author Sangdoo Yun author Byeongho Heo author Dongyoon Han author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 hwang-etal-2026-revisiting https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2211/ 2026-10 47374 47392 Auditing Speaker-Level Metadata Utility in Text-Residual Prosody Prediction Gaeun Kim author Jihyun Park author Sohee Jang author Joon-Hyuk Chang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 kim-etal-2026-auditing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2212/ 2026-10 47393 47412 Understanding and Enhancing Backdoor Persistency in LLM Agent Post-Training Qiusi Zhan author Nian Lyu author Stephanie Ding author Arnav Mehta author Xander Davies author Daniel Kang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 zhan-etal-2026-understanding https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2213/ 2026-10 47413 47430 Inside Sentence Embeddings: Leveraging Token Representations for Machine Translation Evaluation and Word Alignment Mana Makinae author Takumi Goto author Yusuke Sakai author Hidetaka Kamigaito author Taro Watanabe author 2026-10 text Findings of the 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Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 zhang-etal-2026-self-evolving https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2221/ 2026-10 47553 47577 The Bottleneck Is Retrieval, Not Reading: Diagnosing Evidence-Based Generation with RAG for Long Context Question Answering Debopriyo Banerjee author Owais Aijaz author Ahmer Tabassum author Zhuohan Xie author Preslav Nakov author Veselin Stoyanov author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 banerjee-etal-2026-bottleneck https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2222/ 2026-10 47578 47613 STRESS-FG: Diagnosing Visual Grounding in Zero-Shot Fine-Grained Recognition Ishtiaque Ahmed Khan author A Lynn Abbott author 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Safe Adaptive Variable-Length Decoding for Diffusion Language Models Junzhuo Li author Tianhao Li author Hao-Ran Wei author Xiang Li author Baosong Yang author Xuming Hu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 li-etal-2026-change https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2224/ 2026-10 47641 47654 Multi-Label Delegation Target Identification in Japanese Law Tsuyoshi Fujita author Yuya Sawada author Yusuke Sakai author Taro Watanabe author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 fujita-etal-2026-multi 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Comparison Moritz Staudinger author Wojciech Kusa author Pia Pachinger author Allan Hanbury author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 staudinger-etal-2026-singing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2363/ 2026-10 50798 50816 BNPO: Beta Normalization Policy Optimization Changyi Xiao author Mengdi Zhang author Yixin Cao author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 xiao-etal-2026-bnpo https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2364/ 2026-10 50817 50829 LLM-Generated or Human-Written? Comparing Review and Non-Review Papers on ArXiv Yanai Elazar author Maria Antoniak author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 elazar-antoniak-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2365/ 2026-10 50830 50848 Linguistic Distance Segregates Latent Representations in Automatic Speech Recognition Systems Ting-Hui Cheng author Line H Clemmensen author Sneha Das author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 cheng-etal-2026-linguistic https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2366/ 2026-10 50849 50859 “Act Like a 5th Grader” is Not Enough: Bounding Knowledge in LLM-Based User Simulators Krisztian Balog author Arild Michel Bakken author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 balog-bakken-2026-act https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2367/ 2026-10 50860 50878 CLIN: an Objective Framework for Evaluating Creativity in Short Persian Literary Text Mohammad Reza Modarres author Armin Tourajmehr author Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh author Mohammad Taher Pilehvar author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 modarres-etal-2026-clin https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2368/ 2026-10 50879 50893 Can Dialects Be Steered Like Languages? 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Prakhar Gupta author Terry Jingchen Zhang author Florent Draye author Bernhard Schölkopf author Zhijing Jin author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 gupta-etal-2026-alignment https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2373/ 2026-10 50984 51001 H²-MRG: Hierarchical Heterogeneous Graph Based Medical Report Generation with Fine-Grained Disease-Specific Modeling Libiao Chen author Dong Nie author Zhenyu Tang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 chen-etal-2026-h2 https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2374/ 2026-10 51002 51015 GraP-Mem: Granularity-Aware Planning for Adaptive Memory Access in Long-Horizon LLM Agents Qinyang Zeng author Jinhao Dong author Wei LU author Xiaoyong Du author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 zeng-etal-2026-grap https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2375/ 2026-10 51016 51032 FLOUR: Mixing the Right Ingredients for LLM Unlearning in Latent Space Thuy Dung Nguyen author Giang Nguyen author Taylor T Johnson author Kevin Leach author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 nguyen-etal-2026-flour https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2376/ 2026-10 51033 51051 Metaphors are a Source of Cross-Domain Misalignment of Large Reasoning Models Zhibo Hu author Chen Wang author Yanfeng Shu author Hye-young Paik author Liming Zhu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 hu-etal-2026-metaphors https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2377/ 2026-10 51052 51069 Towards Natural Personalization: Evaluating Long-Horizon Preference Following in Personalized User-LLM Interactions Qianyun Guo author Yibo Li author Yue Liu author Bryan Hooi author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 guo-etal-2026-towards https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2378/ 2026-10 51070 51105 State2State: Revealing Compositional Safety Failures through State-Transition Reasoning Chu-Jun Peng author Zhong-Wei Lin author Yu-Wen Tseng author Hong-Han Shuai author Wen-Huang Cheng author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 peng-etal-2026-state2state https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2379/ 2026-10 51106 51121 What Do Developers Ask? 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Cross-Boundary Context Evolution for Multi-hop Complex Reasoning Rubing Chen author Jian Wang author Wenjie Li author Xiao-Yong Wei author Li Qing author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 chen-etal-2026-retrieve https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2385/ 2026-10 51247 51259 What Limits Us? Analyzing Self-Reported Limitations in NLP Research Tawan Thaepprasit author Peeranuth Kehasukcharoen author Ding Wang author Remi Denton author Peerapon Vateekul author Piyawat Lertvittayakumjorn author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 thaepprasit-etal-2026-limits https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2386/ 2026-10 51260 51297 Ask Better Questions: Learning Efficient Information-Seeking Policy for Clinical Cold-Start Dialogue Li Wenbo author Le Cai author Jiawei Liu author Jinhong Yu author Zhuo Chen author Zhuoran Luo author Yang Qingqing author Gao Cheng author Qikai Cheng author Wei Lu author Xiaozhong Liu author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 wenbo-etal-2026-ask https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2387/ 2026-10 51298 51328 Are Multilingual Models Improving? Revisiting Cross-Lingual Transfer Prasoon Bajpai author Eleftheria Briakou author Preethi Jyothi author Vihari Piratla author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 bajpai-etal-2026-multilingual https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2388/ 2026-10 51329 51357 Can Vibe Coders Really Pass the Vibe Check? 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https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2455/ 2026-10 52799 52827 When Patients Cut In: Extending Clinical Conversational AI Safety to Interruptions Zachary Ellis author Spencer Hazel author Adam Brandt author Ernest Lim author Yajie Vera He author Jared Joselowitz author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 ellis-etal-2026-patients https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2456/ 2026-10 52828 52852 IndicSafeEval: Safety Robustness of Large Language Models under Multilingual Persuasive Jailbreak Attacks Saikat Mondal author Mamta Mamta author Deeksha Varshney author Oana Cocarascu author Asif Ekbal author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott 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Xie author Zhongqi Chen author Qiang Liu author Shu Wu author Bowen Song author Weiqiang Wang author Zilei Wang author Liang Wang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 sun-etal-2026-gapd https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2459/ 2026-10 52915 52935 Probing Large Audio-Language Models for Compositional Understanding of Sounding Actions Michel Olvera author Paraskevas Stamatiadis author Changhong Wang author Gaël Richard author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 olvera-etal-2026-probing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2460/ 2026-10 52936 52950 Beyond Turn Limits: Training Deep Search Agents with Dynamic Context Window Qiaoyu Tang author Hao Xiang author Le Yu author Bowen Yu author Yaojie Lu author Xianpei Han author Le Sun author Wenjuan Zhang author Pengbo Wang author Shixuan Liu author Zhenru Zhang author Jianhong Tu author Hongyu Lin author Junyang Lin author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 tang-etal-2026-beyond-turn https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2461/ 2026-10 52951 52982 EBS: Efficient Block-Sparse Framework for Continual Learning of Large Language Models Zhixin Han author Hang Gao author Yinhao Bai author Yuhua Zhao author Bitong Luo author Zhiyu li author Mengting Hu author Minlie Huang author 2026-10 text 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Backbone Jan Pfister author Tom Völker author Andreas Hotho author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 pfister-etal-2026-assembly https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2464/ 2026-10 53012 53027 What Tokens are Learned when Tokenization is Optimized Jointly with Language Modeling? Saketh Reddy Vemula author Parameswari Krishnamurthy author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 vemula-krishnamurthy-2026-tokens https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2465/ 2026-10 53028 53048 Replacing Training with Memory: Listwise Selection for Text-to-SQL Yeonseok Jeong author Soyoung Yoon author Seongjun Lee author Seung-Won Hwang author 2026-10 text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 Hung-Yi Lee editor Sunipa Dev editor Jessy Li editor Desmond Elliott editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-462-0 jeong-etal-2026-replacing https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2466/ 2026-10 53049 53067 Multi-turn Conversational AI from Text to Multimodal Interaction: 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