EACL 2026

1,430 papers

PTEB: Towards Robust Text Embedding Evaluation via Stochastic Paraphrasing at Evaluation Time with LLMs

Manuel Frank, Haithem Afli

ViGoEmotions: A Benchmark Dataset For Fine-grained Emotion Detection on Vietnamese Texts

Tran Quang Hung, Pham Tien Nam, Son T. Luu, Kiet Van Nguyen

Argumentation and Judgement Factors: LLM-based Discovery and Application in Insurance Disputes

Basit Ali, Anubhav Sinha, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Sachin Pawar, Girish Keshav Palshikar

Knowledge Augmentation Enhances Token Classification for Recipe Understanding

Nuhu Ibrahim, Robert Stevens, Riza Batista-Navarro

SPARTA: Evaluating Reasoning Segmentation Robustness through Black-Box Adversarial Paraphrasing in Text Autoencoder Latent Space

Viktoriia Zinkovich, Anton Antonov, Andrei Spiridonov, Denis Shepelev, Andrey Moskalenko

Can Activation Steering Generalize Across Languages? A Study on Syllogistic Reasoning in Language Models

Gabriele Maraia, Leonardo Ranaldi, Marco Valentino, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto

ReMedQA: Are We Done With Medical Multiple-Choice Benchmarks?

Alessio Cocchieri, Luca Ragazzi, Giuseppe Tagliavini, Gianluca Moro

PortOldBERT: Portuguese Historical Language Models

Tomás Freitas Osório, Henrique Lopes Cardoso

AfriVox: Probing Multilingual and Accent Robustness of Speech LLMs

Busayo Awobade, Mardhiyah Sanni, Tassallah Abdullahi, Chibuzor Okocha, Kelechi Ezema

Beyond "Not Novel Enough": Enriching Scholarly Critique with LLM-Assisted Feedback

Osama Mohammed Afzal, Preslav Nakov, Tom Hope, Iryna Gurevych

Reassessing Active Learning Adoption in Contemporary NLP: A Community Survey

Julia Romberg, Christopher Schröder, Julius Gonsior, Katrin Tomanek, Fredrik Olsson

AdaptBPE: From General Purpose to Specialized Tokenizers

Vijini Pilana Liyanage, François Yvon

From Emotion to Expression: Theoretical Foundations and Resources for Fear Speech

Vigneshwaran Shankaran, Gabriella Lapesa, Claudia Wagner

NeuronMoE: Efficient Cross-Lingual Extension via Neuron-Guided Mixture-of-Experts

Rongzhi Li, Hitomi Yanaka

When the Model Said ‘No Comment’, We Knew Helpfulness Was Dead, Honesty Was Alive, and Safety Was Terrified

Gautam Siddharth Kashyap, Mark Dras, Usman Naseem

Assessing Web Search Credibility and Response Groundedness in Chat Assistants

Ivan Vykopal, Matúš Pikuliak, Simon Ostermann, Marian Simko

What Breaks Knowledge Graph based RAG? Benchmarking and Empirical Insights into Reasoning under Incomplete Knowledge

Dongzhuoran Zhou, Yuqicheng Zhu, Xiaxia Wang, Hongkuan Zhou, Yuan He

Form and Meaning in Intrinsic Multilingual Evaluations

Wessel Poelman, Miryam de Lhoneux

Effective QA-Driven Annotation of Predicate–Argument Relations Across Languages

Jonathan Davidov, Aviv Slobodkin, Shmuel Tomi Klein, Reut Tsarfaty, Ido Dagan

Reasoning or Knowledge: Stratified Evaluation of Biomedical LLMs

Rahul Thapa, Qingyang Wu, Kevin Wu, Harrison G Zhang, Angela Zhang

Large Language Models as Oracles for Ontology Alignment

Sviatoslav Lushnei, Dmytro Shumskyi, Severyn Shykula, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Artur d'Avila Garcez

Assessing the Impact of Typological Features on Multilingual Machine Translation in the Age of Large Language Models

Vitalii Hirak, Jaap Jumelet, Arianna Bisazza

PictureStories: Predicting the Task Adherence of Language Learner Answers to a Picture Story-Based Writing Task

Marie Bexte, Andrew Caines, Diane Nicholls, Paula Buttery, Torsten Zesch

Controlling Reading Ease with Gaze-Guided Text Generation

Andreas Säuberli, Darja Jepifanova, Diego Frassinelli, Barbara Plank

Mind the Gap: Benchmarking LLM Uncertainty and Calibration with Specialty-Aware Clinical QA and Reasoning-Based Behavioural Features

Alberto Testoni, Iacer Calixto

Compact Language Models with Iterative Text Refinement for Health Dialogue Summarization

Kellen Tan Cheng, Ganesh Ramesh, Nafiul Rashid, Geoffrey Jay Tso, Jilong Kuang

Specialization through Collaboration: Understanding Expert Interaction in Mixture-of-Expert Large Language Models

Yuanbo Tang, Naifan Zhang, Yan Tang, Meixuan Chen, Shuhan Huang

K-LegalDeID: A Benchmark Dataset and KLUEBERT-CRF for De-identification in Korean Court Judgments

Wooseok Choi, Hyungbin Kim, Yon Dohn Chung

Computational Benchmarks for Egyptian Arabic Child Directed Speech

Salam Khalifa, Abed Qaddoumi, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow

MAViS: A Multi-Agent Framework for Long-Sequence Video Storytelling

Qian Wang, Ziqi Huang, Ruoxi Jia, Paul Debevec, Ning Yu

Are My Optimized Prompts Compromised? Exploring Vulnerabilities of LLM-based Optimizers

Andrew Zhao, Reshmi Ghosh, Vitor R. Carvalho, Emily Lawton, Keegan Hines

Measuring Idiomaticity in Text Embedding Models with epsilon-compositionality

Sondre Wold, Étienne Simon, Erik Velldal, Lilja Øvrelid

Layer-wise Swapping for Generalizable Multilingual Safety

Hyunseo Shin, Wonseok Hwang

Enhancing Auto-regressive Chain-of-Thought through Loop-Aligned Reasoning

Qifan Yu, Zhenyu He, Sijie Li, Zhou Xun, Jun Zhang

I know you are different! Towards Persona Driven Knowledge-infused Dialogue Assistant

Shifali Agrahari, Moushumi Mahato, Abhisek Tiwari, Javaid Nabi

Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover: Testing LLMs’ Robustness Under Logical Obfuscation

Abhilekh Borah, Shubhra Ghosh, Kedar Joshi, Aditya Kumar Guru, Kripabandhu Ghosh

Multimodal Evaluation of Russian-language Architectures

Artem Chervyakov, Ulyana Isaeva, Anton Emelyanov, Artem Safin, Maria Tikhonova

A Tale of Two Scripts: Transliteration and Post-Correction for Judeo-Arabic

Juan Moreno Gonzalez, Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash

A Computational Approach to Visual Metonymy

Saptarshi Ghosh, Linfeng Liu, Tianyu Jiang

Knowledge Extraction on Semi-Structured Content: Does It Remain Relevant for Question Answering in the Era of LLMs?

Kai Sun, Yin Huang, Srishti Mehra, Mohammad Kachuee, Xilun Chen

Respecting Temporal-Causal Consistency: Entity-Event Knowledge Graph for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Ze Yu Zhang, Zitao Li, Yaliang Li, Bolin Ding, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Too Open for Opinion? Embracing Open-Endedness in Large Language Models for Social Simulation

Bolei Ma, Yong Cao, Indira Sen, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Frauke Kreuter

PaperSearchQA: Learning to Search and Reason over Scientific Papers with RLVR

James Burgess, Jan N. Hansen, Duo Peng, Yuhui Zhang, Alejandro Lozano

Barriers to Discrete Reasoning with Transformers: A Survey Across Depth, Exactness, and Bandwidth

Michelle Yuan, Weiyi Sun, Amir H. Rezaeian, Jyotika Singh, Sandip Ghoshal

RECIPE-TKG: From Sparse History to Structured Reasoning for LLM-based Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion

Ömer Faruk Akgül, Feiyu Zhu, Yuxin Yang, Rajgopal Kannan, Viktor Prasanna

LingGen: Scalable Multi-Attribute Linguistic Control via Power-Law Masking

Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri

ELLA: Efficient Lifelong Learning for Adapters in Large Language Models

Shristi Das Biswas, Yue Zhang, Anwesan Pal, Radhika Bhargava, Kaushik Roy

Unraveling LLM Jailbreaks Through Safety Knowledge Neurons

Chongwen Zhao, Yutong Ke, Kaizhu Huang

Generative Personality Simulation via Theory-Informed Structured Interview

Pengda Wang, Huiqi Zou, Han Jiang, Hanjie Chen, Tianjun Sun

Mitigating Degree Bias in Hypergraphs via Attribute-as-Structure Approach

Ryusei Nishide, Makoto Miwa

RoZO: Geometry-Aware Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning on Low-Rank Adapters for Black-Box Large Language Models

Zichen Song, Weijia Li

SearchLLM: Detecting LLM Paraphrased Text by Measuring the Similarity with Regeneration of the Candidate Source via Search Engine

Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son, Minh-Son Dao, Koji Zettsu

How Reliable are Confidence Estimators for Large Reasoning Models? A Systematic Benchmark on High-Stakes Domains

Reza Khanmohammadi, Erfan Miahi, Simerjot Kaur, Charese Smiley, Ivan Brugere

Adaptive Helpfulness–Harmlessness Alignment with Preference Vectors

Ren-Wei Liang, Chin Ting Hsu, Chan-Hung Yu, Saransh Agrawal, Shih-Cheng Huang

StarFlow: Generating Structured Workflow Outputs From Sketch Images

Patrice Bechard, Chao Wang, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Juan A. Rodriguez, Christopher Pal

Discourse Graph Guided Document Translation with Large Language Models

Viet Thanh Pham, Minghan Wang, Hao-Han Liao, Thuy-Trang Vu

Coordinates from Context: Using LLMs to Ground Complex Location References

Tessa Masis, Brendan O'Connor

CRADLE Bench: A Clinician-Annotated Benchmark for Multi-Faceted Mental Health Crisis and Safety Risk Detection

Grace Byun, Rebecca Lipschutz, Sean T. Minton, Abigail Powers, Jinho D. Choi

ExAnte: A Benchmark for Ex-Ante Inference in Large Language Models

Yachuan Liu, Xiaochun Wei, Lin Shi, Xinnuo Li, Bohan Zhang

Contrastive Learning with Narrative Twins for Modeling Story Salience

Igor Sterner, Alex Lascarides, Frank Keller

TDFlow: Agentic Workflows for Test Driven Development

Kevin Han, Siddharth Maddikayala, Tim Knappe, Om Patel, Austen Liao

Improving LLM Domain Certification with Pretrained Guide Models

Jiaqian Zhang, Zhaozhi Qian, Faroq AL-Tam, Ignacio Iacobacci, Muhammad AL-Qurishi

AutoBool: Reinforcement-Learned LLM for Effective Automatic Systematic Reviews Boolean Query Generation

Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon

Say It Another Way: Auditing LLMs with a User-Grounded Automated Paraphrasing Framework

Clea Chataigner, Rebecca Ma, Prakhar Ganesh, Yuhao Chen, Afaf Taik

Attacker’s Noise Can Manipulate Your Audio-based LLM in the Real World

Vinu Sankar Sadasivan, Soheil Feizi, Rajiv Mathews, Lun Wang

iBERT: Interpretable Embeddings via Sense Decomposition

Vishal Anand, Milad Alshomary, Kathleen McKeown

Yifei Shen, Yilun Zhao, Justice Ou, Tinglin Huang, Arman Cohan

Utterance-level Detection Framework for LLM-Involved Content Detection in Conversational Setting

Muyang Zhou, Huaxia Rui

Deconstructing Instruction-Following: A New Benchmark for Granular Evaluation of Large Language Model Instruction Compliance Abilities

Alberto Purpura, Li Wang, Sahil Badyal, Gene Beaufrand, Adam Faulkner

STAMP: Selective Task-Aware Mechanism for Text Privacy

Fengwei Tian, Payel Bhattacharjee, Heidi Hanson, Geoffrey D Rubin, Joseph Y. Lo

NP-Hard Lower Bound Complexity for Semantic Self-Verification

Robin Young

Ultra-Low-Dimensional Prompt Tuning via Random Projection

Zijun Wu, Yongchang Hao, Lili Mou

Aleph-Alpha-GermanWeb: Improving German-language LLM pre-training with model-based data curation and synthetic data generation

Thomas F Burns, Letitia Parcalabescu, Stephan Waeldchen, Michael Barlow, Gregor Ziegltrum

CORE: Measuring Multi-Agent LLM Interaction Quality under Game-Theoretic Pressures

Punya Syon Pandey, YongJin Yang, Jiarui Liu, Zhijing Jin

Uncovering Hidden Correctness in LLM Causal Reasoning via Symbolic Verification

Paul He, Yinya Huang, Mrinmaya Sachan, Zhijing Jin

Elena Sofia Ruzzetti, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Tommaso Caselli

Adaptive LLM-Symbolic Reasoning via Dynamic Logical Solver Composition

Lei Xu, Pierre Beckmann, Marco Valentino, Andre Freitas

PartisanLens: A Multilingual Dataset of Hyperpartisan and Conspiratorial Immigration Narratives in European Media

Michele Joshua Maggini, Paloma Piot, Anxo Pérez, Erik Bran Marino, Lúa Santamaría Montesinos

Persona Prompting as a Lens on LLM Social Reasoning

Jing Yang, Moritz Hechtbauer, Elisabeth Khalilov, Evelyn Luise Brinkmann, Vera Schmitt

Don’t Trust Generative Agents to Mimic Communication on Social Networks Unless You Benchmarked their Empirical Realism

Simon Münker, Nils Schwager, Achim Rettinger

How effective are VLMs in assisting humans in inferring the quality of mental models from Multimodal short answers?

Pritam Sil, Durgaprasad Karnam, Vinay Reddy Venumuddala, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Detecting Training Data of Large Language Models via Expectation Maximization

Gyuwan Kim, Yang Li, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Jie Ma, William Yang Wang

Do NOT Classify and Count: Hybrid Attribute Control Success Evaluation

Felix Matthias Saaro, Pius Von Däniken, Mark Cieliebak, Jan Milan Deriu

CALE : Concept-Aligned Embeddings for Both Within-Lemma and Inter-Lemma Sense Differentiation

Bastien Lietard, Gabriel Loiseau

Cetvel: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating Language Understanding, Generation and Cultural Capacity of LLMs for Turkish

Yakup Abrek Er, Ilker Kesen, Gözde Gül Şahin, Aykut Erdem

InfiGUIAgent: A Multimodal Generalist GUI Agent with Native Reasoning and Reflection

Yuhang Liu, Pengxiang Li, Zishu Wei, Congkai Xie, Xueyu Hu

Safety of Large Language Models Beyond English: A Systematic Literature Review of Risks, Biases, and Safeguards

Aleksandra Krasnodebska, Katarzyna Dziewulska, Karolina Seweryn, Maciej Chrabaszcz, Wojciech Kusa

Nemotron-CrossThink: Scaling Self-Learning beyond Math Reasoning

Syeda Nahida Akter, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Matvei Novikov, Seungju Han, Ying Lin

A Benchmark for Audio Reasoning Capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models

Iwona Christop, Mateusz Czyżnikiewicz, Paweł Skórzewski, Łukasz Bondaruk, Jakub Kubiak

SCoNE: a Self-Correcting and Noise-Augmented Method for Complex Biological and Chemical Named Entity Recognition

Xingyu Zhu, Claire Nédellec, Balazs Nagy, Laszlo Vidacs, Robert Bossy

Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump’s Presidential Campaigns

Ilias Chalkidis, Stephanie Brandl, Paris Aslanidis

A Survey on Multilingual Mental Disorders Detection from Social Media Data

Ana-Maria Bucur, Marcos Zampieri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Fabio Crestani

Rethinking Prompt Optimizers: From Prompt Merits to Optimization

Zixiao Zhu, Hanzhang Zhou, Zijian Feng, Tianjiao Li, Chua Jia Jim Deryl

Sparse Adapter Fusion for Continual Learning in NLP

Min Zeng, Xi Chen, Haiqin Yang, Yike Guo

OD-Stega: LLM-Based Relatively Secure Steganography via Optimized Distributions

Yu-Shin Huang, Peter Just, Hanyun Yin, Krishna Narayanan, Ruihong Huang

Auditing Language Model Unlearning via Information Decomposition

Anmol Goel, Alan Ritter, Iryna Gurevych

Do language models accommodate their users? A study of linguistic convergence

Terra Blevins, Susanne Schmalwieser, Benjamin Roth

BigTokDetect: A Clinically-Informed Vision–Language Modeling Framework for Detecting Pro-Bigorexia Videos on TikTok

Minh Duc Chu, Kshitij Pawar, Zihao He, Roxanna Sharifi, Ross M. Sonnenblick

Humans and transformer LMs: Abstraction drives language learning

Jasper Jian, Christopher D Manning

BERT, are you paying attention? Attention regularization with human-annotated rationales

Elize Herrewijnen, Dong Nguyen, Floris Bex, Albert Gatt