EACL 2026

1,430 papers

TurkBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Turkish Large Language Models

Cagri Toraman, Ahmet Kaan Sever, Ayse Aysu Cengiz, Elif Ecem Arslan, Görkem Sevinç

When Semantic Overlap Is Not Enough: Cross-Lingual Euphemism Transfer Between Turkish and English

Hasan Can Biyik, Libby Barak, Jing Peng, Anna Feldman

Benchmarking Hate Speech Detection in Azerbaijani with Turkish Cross-Lingual Transfer and Transformer Models

Tural Alizada, Haim Dubossarsky

A Morphology-Aware Evaluation of Turkish Syntax in Large Language Models

Ezgi Başar, Arianna Bisazza

Modelling the Morphology of Verbal Paradigms: A Case Study in the Tokenization of Turkish and Hebrew

Giuseppe Samo, Paola Merlo

Language Matters: Target-Language Supervision for Political Bias Detection in Turkish News

Umut Ozbagriacik, Haim Dubossarsky

SarcasTürk: Turkish Context-Aware Sarcasm Detection Dataset

Niyazi Ahmet Metin, Sevde Yılmaz, Osman Enes Erdoğdu, Elif Sude Meydan, Oğul Sümer

TR-EduVSum: A Turkish-Focused Dataset and Consensus Framework for Educational Video Summarization

Figen Eğin, Aytuğ Onan

A Unified Turkic Idiom Understanding Benchmark: Idiom Detection and Semantic Retrieval Across Five Turkic Languages

Gözde Aslantaş, Tunga Güngör

TUNE: A Task For Turkish Machine Unlearning For Data Privacy

Doruk Benli, Ada Canoğlu, Nehir İlkim Gönençer, Dilara Keküllüoğlu

Directed Attention is All You Need: Profiling Style from Limited Text Data

Hüseyin Emir Akdağ

SindBERT, the Sailor: Charting the Seas of Turkish NLP

Raphael Schmitt, Stefan Schweter

HumMusQA: A Human-written Music Understanding QA Benchmark Dataset

Benno Weck, Pablo Puentes, Andrea Poltronieri, Satyajeet Prabhu, Dmitry Bogdanov

Learning When to Personalize: LLM Based Playlist Generation via Query Taxonomy and Classification

Fedor Buzaev, Ivan Sukharev, Rinat Mullahmetov, Roman Bogachev, Ilya Sedunov

Read Between the Tracks: Exploring LLM-driven Intent-based Music Recommendations

Anna Hausberger, Petra Jósár, Markus Schedl

MIDI-PHOR: Multi-View Distillation for Music Understanding and Captioning

Steven Au

How Far Can Pretrained LLMs Go in Symbolic Music? Controlled Comparisons of Supervised and Preference-based Adaptation

Deepak Kumar, Emmanouil Karystinaios, Gerhard Widmer, Markus Schedl

Beyond Musical Descriptors: Extracting Preference-Bearing Intent in Music Queries

Marion Baranes, Romain Hennequin, Elena V. Epure

Stochastic Parrots or True Virtuosos? Digging Deeper Into the Audio-Video Understanding of AVQA Models

Sara Pernille Jensen, Hallvard Innset Hurum, Anna-Maria Christodoulou

LabelBuddy: An Open Source Music and Audio Language Annotation Tagging Tool Using AI Assistance

Ioannis Prokopiou, Ioannis Sina, Agisilaos Kounelis, Pantelis Vikatos, Themos Stafylakis

From Novice to Expert: Generating Audience-Dependent Concert Moderations with RAG-LLMs

Kerstin Denecke

MWE-2026 Shared Task: AdMIRe 2 Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation

Doğukan Arslan, Rodrigo Wilkens, Wei He, Dilara Torunoglu Selamet, Thomas Pickard

Edition 2.0 of the PARSEME shared task on multilingual identification and paraphrasing of multiword expressions

Manon Scholivet, Agata Savary, Carlos Ramisch, Eric Bilinski, Takuya Nakamura

ITUNLP2 at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2: Modular Zero-Shot Pipelines for Multimodal Idiom Grounding and Ranking

Özge Umut, Bora Şenceylan

Archaeology at WE-2026 PARSEME 2.0 Subtask 1 and 2: Parsing is for Encoders, Paraphrasing is for LLMs

Rareş-Alexandru Roşcan, Sergiu Nisioi

ITUNLP at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2: A Zero-Shot LLM Pipeline for Multimodal Idiom Understanding and Ranking

Atakan Site, Oğuz Ali Arslan, Gülşen Eryiǧit

DCSN-NLP at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2: Bridging Literal and Figurative Meaning Through Hierarchical Multimodal Reasoning

David Cotigă, Sergiu Nisioi

UniBO at MWE-2026 PARSEME 2.0 Subtask 2: A Cross-lingual Approach to Multiword Expression Paraphrasing

Debora Ciminari, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño

LST at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2: Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation

Le Qiu, Yu-Yin Hsu, Emmanuele Chersoni

MorphoFiltered-Gemini at MWE-2026 PARSEME 2.0 Subtask 1: Tackling LLM Overgeneration via Universal POS-based Constraints

Irina Moise, Sergiu Nisioi

Semantic Stars at MWE-2026 PARSEME 2.0 Subtask 2: Alternative Approaches for MWE Paraphrasing

Elif Bayraktar, Vedat Doğancan, Muhammed Abdullah Gümüş, Nusret Ali Kızılaslan

IPN at MWE-2026 PARSEME 2.0 Subtask 1: MWE Identification via Related Languages and Harnessing Thinking Mode

Anna Hülsing, Noah-Manuel Michael, Daniel Mora Melanchthon, Andrea Horbach

tiberiucarp at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2: GLIMMER-Gloss-based Image Multiword Meaning Expression Ranker

Andrei Tiberiu Carp

PMI MWE Scorer at PARSEME 2.0 Subtask 1: identifying multi-word expressions using pointwise mutual information and universal dependencies

Anna Bogdanova, Ileana Bucur

3K2T at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2: CARIM– Category-Aware Reasoning for Idiomatic Multimodality

Kubilay Kağan Kömürcü, Tugce Temel

Sahara Tokenizers at PARSEME 2.0 Subtask 1: Combining Contextual Embeddings with Structural Decoding for Multi-Word Expression Detection

Yunus Karatepe, Mert Sülük, Zeynep Tuğçe Kırımlı, Begüm Özbay

VisAffect at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2: IMMCAN Idiom Multimodal Cross-Attention Network

Barış Bilen, Ali Azmoudeh, Hazım Kemal Ekenel, Hatice Kose

BeeParser at MWE-2026 PARSEME 2.0 Subtask 1: Can Cross-Lingual Interactions Improve MWE Identification?

Ahmet Erdem, Oguzhan Karaarslan

alexandru412 at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2.0: Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation

Cristea Alexandru-Marian

IdiomRanker-X at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2: Multilingual Idiom-Image Alignment via Low-Rank Adaptation of Cross-Encoders

Mehmet Utku Colak

PolyFrame at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2: When Words Are Not Enough: Multimodal Idiom Disambiguation

Nina Hosseini-Kivanani

A Curious Class of Adpositional Multiword Expressions in Korean

Junghyun Min, Na-Rae Han, Jena D. Hwang, Nathan Schneider

Diversity patterns run deep: Impact of diversity intake on multiword expression identification

Mathilde Deletombe, Manon Scholivet, Louis Estève, Thomas Lavergne, Agata Savary

An Idiom Benchmark for Turkish

Ebru Çavuşoğlu, Çağri Çöltekin

The Lock, Stock, and Barrel of Marathi Multiwords

Aakanksha Padhye, Ashwini Vaidya

Beyond Single Words: MWE Identification in Bioinformatics Research Articles and Dispersion Profiling Across IMRaD

Jurgi Giraud, Andrew Gargett

Incorporating Multiword Expressions in Galician Neural Machine Translation: Compositionality, Efficiency, and Performance

Daniel Solla, Paula Pinto-Ferro, Laura Castro, Pablo Gamallo, Marcos Garcia

Two Birds with One Stone: Annotating Romanian Multiword Expressions with an Eye to the PARSEME 2.0 Guidelines Applicability

Verginica Mititelu, Mihaela Cristescu, Elena Irimia, Carmen Mîrzea Vasile

Extracting Multi-Word Expressions Representing Technical Terms and Proper Nouns in Log Messages

Kilian Dangendorf, Sven-Ove Hänsel, Jannik Rosendahl, Felix Heine, Carsten Kleiner

Cheese it up: CamemBERT Outperforms Large Language Models for Identification of French Multi-word Expressions

Sergei Bagdasarov, Diego Alves, Elke Teich

Cognitive Signatures of Multi-Word Expressions: Reading-Time and Surprisal

Diego Alves, Sergei Bagdasarov, Elke Teich

Ukrainian Multiword Expressions Corpus: Creation, Annotation, and Linguistic Analysis

Hanna Sytar, Maria Shvedova, Olha Kanishcheva

Swedish Multiword Expression Corpora in PARSEME

Sara Stymne, Astrid Berntsson Ingelstam, Eva Pettersson

SinFoS: A Parallel Dataset for Translating Sinhala Figures of Speech

Johan Nevin Sofalas, Dilushri Pavithra, Nevidu Jayatilleke, Ruvan Weerasinghe

Large Language Models Put to the Test on Chinese Noun Compounds: Experiments on Natural Language Inference and Compound Semantics

Le Qiu, Emmanuele Chersoni, He Zhou, Yu-Yin Hsu

’A Woman is More Culturally Knowledgeable than A Man?’: The Effect of Personas on Cultural Norm Interpretation in LLMs

Mahammed Kamruzzaman, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Nazmul Hassan, Gene Louis Kim

Generating Difficult-to-Translate Texts

Vilém Zouhar, Wenda Xu, Parker Riley, Juraj Juraska, Mara Finkelstein

Query-Following vs Context-Anchoring: How LLMs Handle Cross-Turn Language Switching

Kyuhee Kim, Chengheng Li Chen, Anna Sotnikova

Whom to Trust? Analyzing the Divergence Between User Satisfaction and LLM-as-a-Judge in E-Commerce RAG Systems

Arif Türkmen, Kaan Efe Keleş

Leveraging Wikidata for Geographically Informed Sociocultural Bias Dataset Creation: Application to Latin America

Yannis Karmim, Renato Pino, Hernan Contreras, Hernan Lira, Sebastian Cifuentes

UNSC-Bench: Evaluating LLM Diplomatic Role-Playing Through UN Security Council Vote Prediction

Ayush Nangia, Aman Gokrani, Ruggero Marino Lazzaroni

Cross-lingual and cross-country approaches to argument component detection: a comparative study.

Cecilia Graiff, Chloé Clavel, Benoît Sagot

Cross-Lingual Stability of LLM Judges Under Controlled Generation: Evidence from Finno-Ugric Languages

Isaac Chung, Linda Freienthal

LLM-as-a-qualitative-judge: automating error analysis in natural language generation

Nadezhda Chirkova, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Seth Aycock, Zain Muhammad Mujahid, Vladana Perlić

The Anthropology of Food: How NLP can Help us Unravel the Food cultures of the World

Arij Riabi, Sougata Saha, Monojit Choudhury

Conceptual Cultural Index: A Metric for Cultural Specificity via Relative Generality

Takumi Ohashi, Hitoshi Iyatomi

Vinclat: Evaluating Reasoning, Cognition and Culture in One Game

Marc Pàmies, Javier Aula-Blasco, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Marta Villegas

An improved Code-Switching Detection System for some Indic Languages

Karan Bhanushali, Fritz Hohl

On the Credibility of Evaluating LLMs using Survey Questions

Jindřich Libovický

LLMs as Span Annotators: A Comparative Study of LLMs and Humans

Zdeněk Kasner, Vilém Zouhar, Patricia Schmidtova, Ivan Kartáč, Kristýna Onderková

Ensemble Methods for Low-Resource Russian-Kyrgyz Machine Translation: When Diverse Models Beat Better Models

Adilet Metinov

LoResMT 2026 Shared Task System Description

Vladimir Panov

Data-Centric Approach at the LoResMT 2026 Turkic Translation Challenge: Russian-Kyrgyz

Dmitry Novokshanov

Machine Translation for Low Resource Turkic Languages: English-Tatar

Alexander Dikov

Script Correction and Synthetic Pivoting: Adapting Tencent HY-MT for Low-Resource Turkic Translation

Bolgov Maxim

A Comparative Evaluation of Open-Source Models for Russian-Kazakh Translation

Gleb Shanshin

DevLake at LoResMT 2026: The Impact of Pre-training and Model Scale on Russian-Bashkir Low-Resource Translation

Vyacheslav Tyurin

No One-Size-Fits-All: Building Systems For Translation to Bashkir, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar and Chuvash Using Synthetic And Original Data

Dmitry Karpov

Navigating Data Scarcity in Low-Resource English-Tatar Translation using LLM Fine-Tuning

Ahmed Khaled Khamis

CTC Regularization for Low-Resource Speech-to-Text Translation

Zachary William Hopton, Rico Sennrich

Can Linguistically Related Languages Guide LLM Translation in Low-Resource Settings?

Aishwarya Ramasethu, Rohin Garg, Niyathi Allu, Harshwardhan Fartale, Dun Li Chan

Assessing and Improving Punctuation Robustness in English-Marathi Machine Translation

Kaustubh Shivshankar Shejole, Sourabh Deoghare, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

A Fine-Grained Linguistic Evaluation of Low-Resource Luxembourgish–English MT

Nils Rehlinger

Adapting Multilingual NMT to Language Isolates: The Role of Proxy Language Selection and Dialect Handling for Nivkh

Eleonora Izmailova, Alexey Sorokin, Pavel Grashchenkov

Improving Indigenous Language Machine Translation with Synthetic Data and Language-Specific Preprocessing

Aashish Dhawan, Christopher Driggers-Ellis, Christan Grant, Daisy Zhe Wang

Semi-Automatic construction of a Quechua-Spanish dictionary

Maximiliano Duran, Max Silberztein

Building and Evaluating a High Quality Parallel Corpus for English Urdu Low Resource Machine Translation

Munief Hassan Tahir, Hunain Azam, Sana Shams, Sarmad Hussain

Context Volume Drives Performance: Tackling Domain Shift in Extremely Low-Resource Translation via RAG

David Samuel Setiawan, Raphael Merx, Jey Han Lau

Balancing Fluency and Adherence: Hybrid Fallback Term Injection in Low-Resource Terminology Translation

Kurt Abela, Marc Tanti, Claudia Borg

Can LLMs Translate Italy’s Language Varieties?

Edoardo Signoroni, Pavel Rychlý

Comparing LLM-Based Translation Approaches for Extremely Low-Resource Languages

Jared Coleman, Ruben Rosales, Kira Toal, Diego Cuadros, Nicholas Leeds

Text Filter Based on Automatically Acquired Vocabularies for Multilingual Machine Translation

Kenji Imamura, Masao Utiyama

Tao–Filipino Neural Machine Translation: Strategies for Ultra–Low-Resource Settings

Adrian Denzel Macayan, Luis Andrew Sunga Madridijo, Ellexandrei Esponilla, Zachary Mitchell Francisco

Are Small Language Models the Silver Bullet to Low-Resource Languages Machine Translation?

Yewei Song, Lujun Li, Cedric Lothritz, Saad Ezzini, Lama Sleem

Overview of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026)

Hansi Hettiarachchi, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Alistair Plum, Paul Rayson, Ruslan Mitkov

Domain-Specific Quality Estimation for Machine Translation in Low-Resource Scenarios

Namrata Bhalchandra Patil Gurav, Akashdeep Ranu, Archchana Sindhujan, Diptesh Kanojia

Contributing to Speech-to-Speech Translation for African Low-Resource Languages : Study of French-Mooré Pair

Fayçal S. A. Ouedraogo, Maimouna Ouattara, Rodrique Kafando, Abdoul Kader Kaboré, Aminata Sabane

Neural Machine Translation for French–Mooré: Adapting Large Language Models to Low-Resource Languages

Walker Stanislas Rocksane COMPAORE, Maimouna Ouattara, Rodrique Kafando, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Abdoul Kader Kaboré

Parameter-Efficient Quality Estimation via Frozen Recursive Models

Umar Abubacar, Roman Bauer, Diptesh Kanojia

BanglaSummEval: Reference-Free Factual Consistency Evaluation for Bangla Summarization

Ahmed Rafid, Rumman Adib, Fariya Ahmed, Ajwad Abrar, Mohammed Saidul Islam