Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026)

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor 2026-10 Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary text conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 luhme-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.0/ PCP: A Controlled Benchmark for Pragmatic Intention Recognition in Clinical Communication Kun Zhang author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 zhang-2026-pcp https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.1/ 2026-10 1 24 Where Does Conversational Repair Happen? Meaning Revision Inside Language Models Vedanth Nanesha author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 nanesha-2026-conversational https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.2/ 2026-10 25 37 Reading Between the Turns: User Repair as a Context-Dependent Signal of Breakdown and Recovery in Multi-Turn LLM Assistants Leah Michel author Nuno Miguel Martins Pacheco author Choro Ulan uulu author Mikhail Kulyabin author Jan Joosten author Filippos Petridis author Michael A Hedderich author Barbara Plank author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 michel-etal-2026-reading https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.3/ 2026-10 38 53 Beyond Fluent Responses: Finding User Dissatisfaction in Human–AI Interactions Yuka Saito author Ikumi Numaya author Jun Suzuki author Reina Akama author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 saito-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.4/ 2026-10 54 69 Representational Similarity Alignment of Figurative Language in Humans and Large Language Models Samhita Bollepally author Aurora Sloman-Moll author Takashi Yamauchi author Neeka Motamedrasa author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 bollepally-etal-2026-representational https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.5/ 2026-10 70 88 False Memories in LLMs: Gist-Based Recognition Despite Verbatim Context Robin Orthey author Guillaume Pelat author Yuri Nakao author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 orthey-etal-2026-false https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.7/ 2026-10 89 97 Human and Machine Word Associations in Slovenian: A Comparison of Associative Behaviour and Its Explanations Klara Vrabl author Mojca Brglez author Špela Vintar author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 vrabl-etal-2026-human https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.8/ 2026-10 98 108 Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models Mahdiyeh Farajidizaji author Vatsal Raina author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 farajidizaji-raina-2026-task https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.9/ 2026-10 109 120 Probing Language Understanding in Colombian Indigenous Languages: Zero-Shot Translation, Visual Grounding, and Cultural Fidelity Santiago Arenas author Ruben Manrique author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 arenas-manrique-2026-probing https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.11/ 2026-10 121 133 How AI Assistants Respond to Repeated Abuse William Guey author Wei Zhang author Pierrick Bougault author Yi Wang author Agoston Bodo author Vitor D de Moura author José O Gomes author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 guey-etal-2026-ai https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.12/ 2026-10 134 143 PlotTwist: A Creative Plot Generation Framework with Small Language Models Abhinav Thorat author Ravi Kumar Kolla author Jyotin Goel author Madhav Kataria author Niranjan Pedanekar author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 thorat-etal-2026-plottwist https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.13/ 2026-10 144 172 Assessing the Comprehension of Regional Colombian Idioms by Language Models Santiago Bobadilla Suarez author Juan Diego Osorio author Maria Alejandra Pinzon Roncancio author Ignacio Chaparro author Ruben Manrique author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 suarez-etal-2026-assessing https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.14/ 2026-10 173 182 Representing Human Values in Argumentation: A Linguistically Grounded Comparison of Lexicons, Embeddings, and LLMs Chaya Liebeskind author Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk author Shmuel Liebeskind author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 liebeskind-etal-2026-representing https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.15/ 2026-10 183 196 Calibrating LLM-as-a-Judge for Argument Quality Assessment through Prompting and Scoring Scale Design Guilherme Aren Marchetti author Gil Rocha author Henrique Lopes Cardoso author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 marchetti-etal-2026-calibrating https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.16/ 2026-10 197 214 Lexical Redefinition Reveals Context-Sensitive Instruction Following Roksana Goworek author Haim Dubossarsky author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 goworek-dubossarsky-2026-lexical https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.17/ 2026-10 215 226 To “Ba” or Not to “Ba”? LLM Surprisal as a Diagnostic of Context-Sensitive Language Understanding in L2 Chinese Shengjie Zhang author Yan Cong author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 zhang-cong-2026-ba https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.18/ 2026-10 227 245 Same Problem, Different Answer: Accuracy Hides Cross-Lingual Inconsistency in Multilingual Inference Ahsan Habib Shihab author Assel Ospan author Aman Mussa author Madina Mansurova author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 shihab-etal-2026-problem https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.19/ 2026-10 246 255 FrugalPrompt: Reducing Contextual Overhead in Large Language Models via Token Attribution Syed Rifat Raiyan author Md Farhan Ishmam author Abdullah Al Imran author Mohammad Ali Moni author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 raiyan-etal-2026-frugalprompt https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.20/ 2026-10 256 271 Sweet Talkers: How Query Formulation Shapes Sycophancy in Romantic Relationship Advice Helena Choi author Edric Castel C Hao author Karl Bautista author Francis Gabriel A Magleo author Renzo Panti author Danielle Beatrice Ledesma Olalia author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 choi-etal-2026-sweet https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.21/ 2026-10 272 285 Beyond Warmth: Risk-Tiered Auditing of Credibility in LLM Companion Responses Danping Yan author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 yan-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.22/ 2026-10 286 303 Evaluation of Motivational Interviewing Counsellors with Task-Aware Multi-Stage LLM-Based Simulated Clients Jiading Zhu author Xinyu Cindy Wang author Thomas Nguyen author Yan Qing Lee author Osnat C Melamed author Peter Selby author Jonathan Rose author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 zhu-etal-2026-evaluation https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.23/ 2026-10 304 359 Who Benchmarks the Benchmarks? Towards Comprehensive Evaluation of Commonsense Reasoning Benchmarks Pavel Chizhov author Anton Changalidis author Vishnu Prasad Vijaya Kumar author Yannick Detrois author Mattia Nee author Pierre-Carl Langlais author Ivan P Yamshchikov author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 chizhov-etal-2026-benchmarks https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.24/ 2026-10 360 377 Inverse Turing Bench: Evaluating Language Models as Judges of Human vs. AI Dialogue William Hager author Ishika Rathi author Masum Hasan author Cameron Robert Jones author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 hager-etal-2026-inverse https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.25/ 2026-10 378 388 Sedimented Use and Borrowed Competence: A Relational Framework for Language Models Yanan Long author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME 2026) Rui Sousa-Silva editor Henrique Lopes Cardoso editor Maarit Koponen editor Antonio Pareja-Lora editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-471-2 long-2026-sedimented https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.26/ 2026-10 389 399