Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026)

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor 2026-09 Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy text conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 icnlsp-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.0/ Does Financial Speech Need Continual Learning Regularization? A Study of EWC and mini-KFAC on Earnings Call ASR Thai Quoc On author Homayoon Beigi author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 on-beigi-2026-financial https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.1/ 2026-09 1 10 Budgeting Speech-to-LLM ASR for Underrepresented Dutch Speech Xinnian Zhao author Hugo Vanhamme author Pu Wang author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 zhao-etal-2026-budgeting https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.2/ 2026-09 11 16 Textonomy: A TnT-LLM-Based Approach for Interpretable Topic Modeling at Scale Noah Zuchna author Martin Stoll author Jan Blechschmidt author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 zuchna-etal-2026-textonomy https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.3/ 2026-09 17 32 Thread-Preserving Chunking for LLM-Based Action Item Extraction from Enterprise Email under Constrained Context Budget Kiyeop Kim author Donghoon Cho author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 kiyeop-kim-cho-2026-thread https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.4/ 2026-09 33 37 CURB: Civic Urban Reasoning Benchmark Oliver R Fox author Ellis Solaiman author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 fox-solaiman-2026-curb https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.5/ 2026-09 38 52 When Does Uncertainty Measure RAG Hallucination Risk? Rajeel Ahmad Ansari author Tautik Agrahari author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 ansari-agrahari-2026-uncertainty https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.6/ 2026-09 53 58 One Bad Juror: Exploring Adversarial Influence and Deliberation Dynamics in Multi-Agent LLM Panels Vaishakh Sreekanth Menon author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 menon-2026-one https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.7/ 2026-09 59 66 AutoSpecNER: A Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition Dataset for Vehicle Specification Extraction Jordan Lee author Filippos Ventirozos author Abdirahman Abdullahm author Ioanna Nteka author Peter Appleby author Matthew Shardlow author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 lee-etal-2026-autospecner https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.8/ 2026-09 67 81 Making the Implicit Explicit: A Domain Ontology-Based Approach for Comprehensive Attribute-Level Knowledge Extraction in Technical Texts Vatosoa Razafiniary author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 razafiniary-2026-making https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.9/ 2026-09 82 95 Verbal and Nonverbal Coherence as an Index for Second Language Proficiency Katsunori Kotani author Takehiko Yoshimi author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 kotani-yoshimi-2026-verbal https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.10/ 2026-09 96 106 IntentifierBench: An Open-Source Web Tool for Benchmarking Authorship Identification using Illocutionary Force Large Language Models Based Classifiers Inyama author Godfrey author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 inyama-godfrey-2026-intentifierbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.11/ 2026-09 107 116 Revisiting Accent Classification with DistilHuBERT: Speaker-Disjoint Evaluation and Cross-Corpus Generalization Xu He author Homayoon Beigi author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 he-beigi-2026-revisiting https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.12/ 2026-09 117 125 Token Merging for Multilingual Speech Recognition: A Systematic Study Across Model Scale and Fine-Tuning Dylan Luke Holyoak author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 holyoak-2026-token https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.13/ 2026-09 126 137 Improving Persian Sentiment Classification through LLM-Assisted Label Refinement and Small Language Models Maziyar Amini Alashti author Seyed Abbas Bagheri author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 alashti-bagheri-2026-improving https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.14/ 2026-09 138 147 Masked Temporal Alignment for Automated Speech Scoring Akshay Badola author Ikkyu Choi author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 badola-choi-2026-masked https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.15/ 2026-09 148 156 RomMa-FT: Static Word Embeddings for Romanized Marathi-English Code-Mixed Hate Speech Detection Nitin Bhaskar Chavan author Badal Soni author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 chavan-soni-2026-romma https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.16/ 2026-09 157 163 Persona as Infrastructure: Invisible Structural Control in LLM-Mediated Social Networks Amir Reza Asadi author Jess Kropczynski author Hazem Said author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 asadi-etal-2026-persona https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.17/ 2026-09 164 178 KidLit by Numbers: Linguistic Profiles of Original and Translated Russian 0+ Books Daria Gavrilik author Aleksandra Ostraia author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 gavrilik-ostraia-2026-kidlit https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.18/ 2026-09 179 190 Human-in-the-loop Generation System for Analogical Explanations of Target Concepts Ryo Takahashi author Asuka Terai author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 takahashi-terai-2026-human https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.19/ 2026-09 191 198 GEMCo: A Validated, Ethically Releasable Proxy for Inaccessible Counselling Data Philipp Steigerwald author Eric Rudolph author Mara Stieler author Jennifer Burghardt author Robert Lehmann author Jens Albrecht author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 steigerwald-etal-2026-gemco https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.20/ 2026-09 199 215 Text Segmentation is Subjective: Empirical Evidence of Human Variability and its Implications for Downstream Tasks Sophia Conrad author Florian Frenken author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 conrad-frenken-2026-text https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.21/ 2026-09 216 222 FrIdéo: French News Outlet Ideology Scoring via Multi-Source Evidence Fusion and Distancing-Aware Lexical Scoring Amr Sobhy author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 sobhy-2026-frideo https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.22/ 2026-09 223 238 Framing by Wording, Framing by Selection: A Large-Scale Two-Dimensional Audit of French News Headlines, 2022–2025 Amr Sobhy author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech 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(ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 wartena-2026-combined https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.25/ 2026-09 269 278 Evaluating Transformers with NepSum: A Large-Scale Dataset for Nepali Abstractive Summarization Saskar Khadka author Pawan Khatri author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 khadka-khatri-2026-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.26/ 2026-09 279 289 When Silver Isn’t Enough: Data Quality Effects on Pnar-English Machine Translation Riya Tekcham author Fitha Asma Sulfeekhar author Badal Nyalang author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural 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Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 wu-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.29/ 2026-09 310 321 Probing the phon* representations of the Mimi codebooks Artem Saloev author Nicolas Ballier author Erin Pacquetet author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 saloev-etal-2026-probing https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.30/ 2026-09 322 331 Seeds Before Objectives: Rethinking Evaluation for Low-Resource Garhwali ASR Karamvir Singh Batra author Prathamjyot Singh author Ashima Sood author Jasmeet Singh author Sahil Sharma author 2026-09 text 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almutairi-etal-2026-respl https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.34/ 2026-09 367 379 MetaHOPE: Metaphor Translation Evaluation Framework Investigating Open-Source LLMs and State-of-the-Art Neural Translation Models Jiahui Liang author Lifeng Han author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 liang-han-2026-metahope https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.35/ 2026-09 380 401 ArImpliSent: A Large-Scale Dataset for Arabic Implicit Sentiment Analysis Ghozlene Chenni author Sadik Bessou author Hanane Boutouta author Nour elhouda Chenni author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 chenni-etal-2026-arimplisent https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.36/ 2026-09 402 410 Evaluating Latent Semantic Pre-training for Fine-grained Word Sense Disambiguation Soma Simon author Gábor Berend author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas editor Abed Alhakim Freihat editor Association for Computational Linguistics University of Trento, Trento, Italy conference publication 979-8-89176-458-3 simon-berend-2026-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.37/ 2026-09 411 422 Looking under the Wrong Lamppost: On the Limitations of Automated Translation Quality Estimation Serge Gladkoff author Angelika Vaasa author Sue Ellen Wright author Ingemar Strandvik author Lifeng Han author 2026-09 text Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026) Mourad Abbas 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