EACL 2026

1,430 papers

A Multi-Aspect Evaluation Framework for Synthetic Data: Case Study on Irony and Sarcasm

Laura Majer, Ana Barić, Florijan Sandalj, Ivan Unković, Bojan Puvača

Multimodal Claim Extraction for Fact-Checking

Joycelyn Teo, Rui Cao, Zhenyun Deng, Zifeng Ding, Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull

A Transformer and Prototype-based Interpretable Model for Contextual Sarcasm Detection

Ximing Wen, Rezvaneh Rezapour

Says Who? Argument Convincingness and Reader Stance Are Correlated with Perceived Author Personality

Sabine Weber, Lynn Greschner, Roman Klinger

Real-Time Mitigation of Negative Emotion in Customer Care Calls

Surupendu Gangopadhyay, Mahnoosh Mehrabani

Antisocial Behavior Prediction: A Survey and Practical Guide

Anaïs Ollagnier

Label-Consistent Data Generation for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Using LLM Agents

Mohammad Hossein Akbari Monfared, Lucie Flek, Akbar Karimi

Towards Simulating Social Media Users with LLMs: Evaluating the Operational Validity of Conditioned Comment Prediction

Nils Schwager, Simon Münker, Alistair Plum, Achim Rettinger

News Credibility Assessment by LLMs and Humans: Implications for Political Bias

Pia Wenzel Neves, Charlott Jakob, Vera Schmitt

Disentangling Emotion Understanding and Generation in Large Language Models

Sadegh Jafari, Els Lefever, Véronique Hoste

Is Sentiment Banana-Shaped? Exploring the Geometry and Portability of Sentiment Concept Vectors

Laurits Lyngbaek, Pascale Feldkamp, Yuri Bizzoni, Kristoffer Nielbo, Kenneth Enevoldsen

A Position Paper on Toxic Reasoning: Grounding Categories of Toxic Language in Implications and Attitudes

Stefan F. Schouten, Ilia Markov, Piek Vossen

Crowd-Based Evaluation of Emotion Intensity Preservation in Spanish–Basque Tweet Machine Translation

Nora Aranberri

Emotion-aware text simplification of user generated content using LLMs

Anastasiia Bezobrazova, Daria Sokova, Constantin Orasan

Emotional Lexicons: How Large Language Models Predict Emotional Ratings of Russian Words

Polina V. Iaroshenko, Natalia V Loukachevitch

Exploring Subjective Tasks in Farsi: A Survey Analysis and Evaluation of Language Model

Donya Rooein, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Debora Nozza, Dirk Hovy

Appraisal Trajectories in Narratives Reveal Distinct Patterns of Emotion Evocation

Johannes Schäfer, Janne Wagner, Roman Klinger

The Impact of Highlighting Subjective Language on Perceived News Trustworthiness

Mohammad Shokri, Vivek Sharma, Emily Klapper, Shweta Jain, Elena Filatova

Measuring LLMs’ Sensitivity to Paraphrased Opinion Prompts

Bushra Alhetelah, Irfan Ahmad

Predicting Convincingness in Political Speech: How Emotional Tone Shapes Persuasive Strength

Bhuvanesh Verma, Mounika Marreddy, Alexander Mehler

Quantifying Social Sentiment in Hostels Using A Domain-Specific Transformer Pipeline

Ian W. McMurry

Emoji Reactions on Telegram: Unreliable Indicators of Emotional Resonance

Serena Tardelli, Lorenzo Alvisi, Lorenzo Cima, Stefano Cresci, Maurizio Tesconi

Council of LLMs: Evaluating Capability of Large Language Models to Annotate Propaganda

Vivek Sharma, Shweta Jain, Mohammad Shokri, Sarah Ita Levitan, Elena Filatova

A Closed-Track System for Palestinian Arabic in the AMIYA Shared Task

Khaleel Hamad, Ahmad Al-Najjar

MBZUAI at AMIYA Shared Task 2026: Adapting Open-Source LLMs for Dialectal Arabic

Rana Gaber, Yara Allam, Serag Amin, Ranwa Aly, Bashar Alhafni

NUS-IDS at AMIYA/VarDial 2026: Improving Arabic Dialectness in LLMs with Reinforcement Learning

Sujatha Das Gollapalli, Mouad Hakam, Mingzhe Du, See-Kiong Ng

SDNLP at AMIYA 2026: Syrian Arabic Dialect Modeling with LoRA

Hasan Alkhder, Mohammad Abboush

Maastricht University at AMIYA: Adapting LLMs for Dialectal Arabic using Fine-tuning and MBR Decoding

Abdulhai Alali, Abderrahmane Issam

Aladdin-FTI @ AMIYA Three Wishes for Arabic NLP: Fidelity, Diglossia, and Multidialectal Generation

Jonathan Mutal, Perla Al Almaoui, Simon Hengchen, Pierrette Bouillon

Do Large Language Models Adapt to Language Variation across Socioeconomic Status?

Elisa Bassignana, Mike Zhang, Dirk Hovy, Amanda Cercas Curry

Evaluation Framework for Transfer Learning between Closely Related Lects: A Case Study of Lemko

Ilia Afanasev

Improving Dialect Robustness in Large Language Models via LoRA and Mixture-of-Experts

Sanjh Maheshwari, Aniket Singh Rajpoot, Oana Cocarascu, Mamta .

OpenLID-v3: Improving the Precision of Closely Related Language Identification – An Experience Report

Mariia Fedorova, Nikolay Arefyev, Maja Buljan, Jindřich Helcl, Stephan Oepen

Curriculum Learning and Pseudo-Labeling Improve the Generalization of Multi-Label Arabic Dialect Identification Models

Ali Mekky, Mohamed El Zeftawy, Lara Hassan, Amr Keleg, Preslav Nakov

Syllable Structures Across Arabic Varieties

Abdelrahim Qaddoumi, Jordan Kodner, Salam Khalifa, Ellen Broselow, Owen Rambow

Regional Variation in the Performance of ASR Models on Croatian and Serbian

Tanja Samardžić, Peter Rupnik, Nikola Ljubešić

Bridging Dialectal Variation: A Phonetic Transcription Tool for Tamil

Ahrane Mahaganapathy, Sumirtha Karunakaran, Kavitha Navakulan, Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran

How Should We Model the Probability of a Language?

Rasul Dent, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Thibault Clerice, Benoît Sagot

Extending ASR Evaluation Resources for Modern Greek Dialects

Chara Tsoukala, Stavros Bompolas, Antigoni Margariti, Konstantina Panagiotou, Maria Elisavet Plaiti

From FusHa to Folk: Exploring Cross-Lingual Transfer in Arabic Language Models

Abdulmuizz Khalak, Abderrahmane Issam, Gerasimos Spanakis

Building ASR Resources for the Hutsul Dialect of Ukrainian

Roman Kyslyi, Artem Orlovskyi, Pavlo Khomenko, Bohdan Onyshchenko, Zakhar Guzii

Indic-TunedLens: Interpreting Multilingual Models in Indian Languages

Mihir Panchal, Deeksha Varshney, Mamta ., Asif Ekbal

Ara-HOPE: Human-Centric Post-Editing Evaluation for Dialectal Arabic to Modern Standard Arabic Translation

Abdullah Alabdullah, Lifeng Han, Chenghua Lin

Dialect Matters: Cross-Lingual ASR Transfer for Low-Resource Indic Language Varieties

Akriti Dhasmana, Aarohi Srivastava, David Chiang

On the Intelligibility of Romance Language Varieties: Spanish and Portuguese in Europe and America

Liviu P. Dinu, Ana Sabina Uban, Teodor-George Marchitan, Ioan-Bogdan Iordache, Simona Georgescu

Onomasiological Sense Alignment Across Dialect Dictionaries. A Taxonomy-Constrained LLM Classification

Nathalie Mederake, Nico Urbach, Hanna Fischer, Alfred Lameli

A Subword Embedding Approach for Variation Detection in Luxembourgish User Comments

Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschke

Perplexity as a Metric for Dialectal Distance: A Computational Study of Greek Varieties

Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Erofili Psaltaki, Dimitrios Papadakis, Erik Henriksson, Veronika Laippala

German-English Code-Switching in Large Language Models

Firat Cem Aksüt, Stefan Hillmann, Pia Knoeferle, Sebastian Möller

Crowdsourcing Piedmontese to Test LLMs on Non-Standard Orthography

Gianluca Vico, Jindřich Libovický

Language Mixture to Develop Accurate Galician Dependency Parsers: An Exploration of Its Effects

Xabier Irastortza-Urbieta, José M. García-Miguel, Marcos Garcia

OcWikiDialects: A Wikipedia Dataset With Rich Metadata for Occitan Dialect Identification

Oriane Nédey, Rachel Bawden, Thibault Clerice, Benoît Sagot

Effects of Speaker Bias in Dialect Identification and Automatic Transcription with Self-Supervised Speech Models

Olli Kuparinen

Far Out: Evaluating Language Models on Slang in Australian and Indian English

Deniz Kaya Dilsiz, Dipankar Srirag, Aditya Joshi

AMIYA Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent at VarDial 2026

Nathaniel R. Robinson, Shahd Abdelmoneim, Anjali Kantharuban, Otba Alsboul, Salima Lamsiyah

Novel or Drivel? Variants of Invariants for Teaching NLP in the LLM Era

Marius Micluta-Campeanu

From Sentiment to Interpretation: Teaching NLP for Literary Understanding Across Educational Contexts

Karl-Emil Kjær Bilstrup, Kirstine Nielsen Degn, Morten Schultz, Alexander Conroy, Jens Bjerring-Hansen

Beyond Passive Viewing: A Pilot Study of a Hybrid Learning Platform Augmenting Video Lectures with Conversational AI.

Mohammed Abraar, Raj Dandekar, Rajat Dandekar, Sreedath Panat

Practising responsibility: Ethics in NLP as a hands-on course

Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti, Beatrice Savoldi

Teaching Modern NLP and LLMs at Kyiv School of Economics: A Practice-Oriented Course with Ukrainian Language Focus

Roman Kyslyi, Anton Bazdyrev

Bridging Applied Experience and Research Contexts in Ukrainian NLP Education

Yurii Paniv, Viktoriia Makovska

Teaching and Critiquing Conceptualization and Operationalization in NLP

Vagrant Gautam

From Mixed Backgrounds to NLP Skills

Libby Barak, Anna Feldman

Which course? Discourse! Teaching Discourse and Generation in the Era of LLMs

Junyi Jessy Li, Yang Janet Liu, Kanishka Misra, Valentina Pyatkin, William Sheffield

From Standard Transformers to Modern LLMs: Bringing Dialogue Models, RAG, and Agents to the Classroom

Maria Tikhonova, Viktoriia A. Chekalina, Artem Chervyakov, Alexey Zaytsev, Alexander Panchenko

A Hands-on Approach to NLP Fundamentals for External Domain Experts in the LLM Era

Angel Daza

Teaching NLP in the AI Era: Experiences from the University of Latvia

Inguna Skadiņa, Guntis Barzdins, Uldis Bojārs, Normunds Gruzitis, Peteris Paikens

Language Technology Initiative: Framework for Teaching NLP and Computational Linguistics at the Universities in Latvia

Inguna Skadiņa, Jana Kuzmina, Marina Platonova, Tatjana Smirnova, Sergei Kruk

Linguistics to LLMs: Teaching with and about Chatbots

Ulrike Padó, Barbara Pampel

From Code-Centric to Concept-Centric: Teaching NLP with LLM-Assisted "Vibe Coding”

Hend Al-Khalifa

Pedagogic Applications of Argument Maps to Enhance Critical Thinking: Thought Seeds, Argument Mapping, Collaborative Mapping

Sruti Narra

AnimatedLLM: Explaining LLMs with Interactive Visualizations

Zdeněk Kasner, Ondřej Dušek

Multi-modal Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Classical Persian Poetry: A Culture-Aware Evaluation

Soheila Ansari, Mounir Boukadoum, Fatiha Sadat

Segmentation Strategy Matters: Benchmarking Whisper on Persian YouTube Content

Reihaneh Iranmanesh, Rojin Ziaei, Joe Garman

Shughni Machine Translation Enhanced by Donor Languages

Dmitry Novokshanov, Innokentiy S. Humonen, Ilya Makarov

PersianPunc: A Large-Scale Dataset and BERT-Based Approach for Persian Punctuation Restoration

Mohammad Javad Ranjbar Kalahroodi, Heshaam Faili, Azadeh Shakery

One Language, Three of Its Voices: Evaluating Multilingual LLMs Across Persian, Dari, and Tajiki on Translation and Understanding Tasks

Noor Mairukh Khan Arnob, Abu Bakar Siddique Mahi

APARSIN: A Multi-Variety Sentiment and Translation Benchmark for Iranic Languages

Sadegh Jafari, Tara Azin, Farhad Roodi, Zahra Dehghani Tafti, Mehrdad Ghadrdan

PMWP: A Benchmark for Math Word Problem Solving in Persian

Marzieh Abdolmaleki, Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Véronique Hoste, Els Lefever

ParsCORE: The Persian Corpus of Online Registers

Alireza Razzaghi, Erik Henriksson, Veronika Laipalla

Online Polarization Detection in Persian (Farsi) Social Media

Saeedeh Davoudi, Nazli Goharian

A Computational Approach to Language Contact – A Case Study of Persian

Ali Basirat, Danial Namazifard, Navid Baradaran Hemmati

TajPersLexon: A Tajik–Persian Lexical Resource and Hybrid Model for Cross-Script Low-Resource NLP

Mullosharaf Kurbonovich Arabov

Do Large Language Models Understand Double Mismatches? Evidence from Farsi

Maryam Mohammadi

Benchmarking Offensive Language Detection in Persian and Pashto

Zahra Bokaei, Bonnie Webber, Walid Magdy

Unmasking the Factual-Conceptual Gap in Persian Language Models

Alireza Sakhaeirad, Ali Ma'manpoosh, Arshia Hemmat

A RAG Approach for Typological Database Completion

Jonathan Hus, Antonios Anastasopoulos

Beyond Multilinguality: Typological Limitations in Multilingual Models for Meitei Language

Badal Nyalang

What does Surprisal have to do with Information Status?

Andrew Thomas Dyer

Evaluating the Interplay of Information Status and Information Content in a Multilingual Parallel Corpus

Julius Steuer, Toshiki Nakai, Andrew Thomas Dyer, Luigi Talamo, Annemarie Verkerk

A Valency Lexicon for Universal Dependencies

Petr Kocharov, Lilit Kharatyan

Automatic Grammatical Case Prediction for Template Filling in Case-Marking Languages: Implementation and Evaluation for Finnish

Johannes Laurmaa

Overview of the SIGTURK 2026 Shared Task: Terminology-Aware Machine Translation for English–Turkish Scientific Texts

Ali Gebeşçe, Abdulfattah Safa, Ege Uğur Amasya, Gözde Gül Şahin

Beyond the Token: Correcting the Tokenization Bias in XAI via Morphologically-Aligned Projection

Muhammet Anil Yagiz, Fahrettin Horasan

From Lemmas to Dependencies: What Signals Drive Light Verbs Classification?

Sercan Karakaş, Yusuf Şimşek

Building a Turkish Large Language Model via Continual Pre-Training and Parameter-Efficient Adaptation

Alperen Enes Bayar, Mert Ege, Gökhan Yurtalan, Alper Karamanlioglu, Berkan Demirel

OCRTurk: A Comprehensive OCR Benchmark for Turkish

Deniz Yılmaz, Evren Ayberk Munis, Cagri Toraman, Süha Kağan Köse, Burak Aktaş

RAGTurk: Best Practices for Retrieval Augmented Generation in Turkish

Süha Kağan Köse, Mehmet Can Baytekin, Burak Aktaş, Bilge Kaan Görür, Evren Ayberk Munis

Tokenisation of Turkic Copula Constructions in Universal Dependencies

Çağri Çöltekin, Furkan Akkurt, Bermet Chontaeva, Soudabeh Eslami, Sardana Ivanova

BIRDTurk: Adaptation of the BIRD Text-to-SQL Dataset to Turkish

Burak Aktaş, Mehmet Can Baytekin, Süha Kağan Köse, Ömer İlbilgi, Elif Özge Yılmaz