EACL 2026

1,430 papers

UrHiOdSynth: A Multilingual Synthetic Corpus for Speech-to-Speech Translation in Low-Resource Indic Languages

Jamaluddin, Subhankar Panda, Aditya Narendra, Kamanksha Prasad Dubey, Mohammad Nadeem

Tokenization Cost, Retention, and Orthography Robustness for Ladin and Italian Varieties

Alessio Staffini

MTQE.en-he: Machine Translation Quality Estimation for English-Hebrew

Andy Rosenbaum, Assaf Siani, Ilan Kernerman

Cross-Lingual and Cross-Domain Transfer Learning for POS Tagging in Historical Germanic Low-Resource Languages

Irene Miani, Sara Stymne, Gregory R. Darwin

LuxDiagRC: A Diagnostic Reading Comprehension Corpus for Luxembourgish with Linguistic and Cognitive Annotation Layers

Christophe Friezas Gonçalves, Salima Lamsiyah, Christoph Schommer

Out-Of-Tune rather than Fine-Tuned: How Pre-training, Fine-tuning and Tokenization Affect Semantic Similarity in a Historical, Non-Standardized Domain

Stella Verkijk, Piek Vossen

Hebrew Diacritics Restoration using Visual Representation

Yair Elboher, Yuval Pinter

Tokenization and Morphological Fidelity in Uralic NLP: A Cross-Lingual Evaluation

Nuo Xu, Ahrii Kim

How multilingual are multilingual LLMs? A case study in Northern Sámi-Finnish Translation

Jonne Sälevä, Constantine Lignos

Escaping the Probability Trap: Mitigating Semantic Drift in Cantonese-Mandarin Translation

Yuzhi Liang, Fangqi Chen

Pretraining and Benchmarking Modern Encoders for Latvian

Arturs Znotins

KyrText: A Multi-Domain Large-Scale Corpus for Kyrgyz Language

Tilek Chubakov

MaiBERT: A Pre-training Corpus and Language Model for Low-Resourced Maithili Language

Sumit Yadav, Raju Kumar Yadav, Utsav Maskey, Gautam Siddharth Kashyap, Ganesh Gautam

Representation-Aware Prompting for Zero-Shot Marathi Text Classification: IPA, Romanization, Repetition

Van-Hien Tran, Huy Hien Vu, Hideki Tanaka, Masao Utiyama

The Indonesian Religiolect Corpus: Data Curation for Muslim, Protestant, and Catholic Language Varieties

Dan Sachs

Bootstrapping Embeddings for Low Resource Languages

Merve Basoz, Andrew Horne, Mattia Opper

Beyond Many-Shot Translation: Scaling In-Context Demonstrations For Low-Resource Machine Translation

Luis Frentzen Salim, Esteban Carlin, Alexandre Morinvil, Xi Ai, Lun-Wei Ku

Tracking the evolution of LLM capabilities for Belarusian with OpenAI Evals

Vladislav Poritski, Oksana Volchek, Maksim Aparovich, Volha Harytskaya, Pavel Smrz

Evaluating Large Language Models on Lithuanian Grammatical Cases

Urtė Jakubauskaitė, Raquel G. Alhama

Less is More: Adapting Text Embeddings for Low-Resource Languages with Small Scale Noisy Synthetic Data

Zaruhi Navasardyan, Bagratuni Minsayan, Spartak Bughdaryan, Hrant Davtyan

Serbian SuperGLUE: Towards an Evaluation Benchmark for South Slavic Language Models

Mitar Perovic, Teodora Mihajlov

Large Language Models for Mental Health: A Multilingual Evaluation

Nishat Raihan, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Ana-Maria Bucur, Stevie Chancellor, Marcos Zampieri

Under-resourced studies of under-resourced languages: lemmatization and POS-tagging with LLM annotators for historical Armenian, Georgian, Greek and Syriac

Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Bastien Kindt, Florian Cafiero

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness in Persian Classification Tasks

Shakib Yazdani, Cristina España-Bonet, Eleftherios Avramidis, Yasser Hamidullah, Josef van Genabith

"We Are (Language) Family”: Adapting Transformer models to related minority languages with linguistic data

Miguel López-Otal, Jorge Gracia

Learning from Scarcity: Building and Benchmarking Speech Technology for Sukuma.

Macton Mgonzo, Kezia Oketch, Naome A Etori, Winnie Mang'eni, Elizabeth Fabian Nyaki

"So, How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate on Low-Resource Languages?" A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis

Kushal Trivedi, Murtuza Shaikh, Sriyansh Sharma

Targeted Syntactic Evaluation of Language Models on Georgian Case Alignment

Daniel Gallagher, Gerhard Heyer

Enabling Structured Reasoning in Sindhi with Culturally Grounded Instruction Tuning

Mehak Mehak, Kamyar Zeinalipour, Pireh Soomro, Cristiano Chesi, Marco Gori

Cross-Lingual Emotion Recognition in Balinese Text using Multilingual-LLMs under Peer-Collaborations Settings

Putu Kussa Laksana Utama, Jilles Steeve Dibangoye, Tsegaye Misikir Tashu

TeluguEval: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Capabilities in Telugu

Revanth Kumar Gundam, Radhika Mamidi

Anchoring the Judge: Curriculum-Based Adaptation and Reference-Anchored MQM for LLM-Based Machine Translation of an Unseen Low-Resource Language - A Case of Nupe

Umar Baba Umar, Sulaimon Adebayo Bashir, Abdulmalik Danlami Mohammed

Qomhrá: A Bilingual Irish and English Large Language Model

Joseph McInerney, Khanh-Tung Tran, Liam Lonergan, Neasa Ní Chiaráin, Ailbhe Ni Chasaide

When LLMs Annotate: Reliability Challenges in Low-Resource NLI

Solmaz Panahi, John Kelleher, Vasudevan Nedumpozhimana

QARI: Neural Architecture for Urdu Extractive Machine Reading Comprehension

Samreen Kazi, Shakeel Ahmed Khoja

LLM-as-a-Judge for Low-Resource Languages: Adapting Ragas and Comparative Ranking for Romanian

Claudiu Creanga, Liviu P Dinu

Tone in Yoruba ASR: Evaluating the Impact of Tone Recognition on Transformer-Based ASR Models

Joy Olusanya

Improving Romanian LLM Pretraining Data using Diversity and Quality Filtering

Vlad-Andrei Negoiță, Mihai Masala, Traian Rebedea

BanglaIPA: Towards Robust Text-to-IPA Transcription with Contextual Rewriting in Bengali

Jakir Hasan, Shrestha Datta, Md Saiful Islam, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Ameya Debnath

SinhaLegal: A Benchmark Corpus for Information Extraction and Analysis in Sinhala Legislative Texts

Minduli Lasandi, Nevidu Jayatilleke

Quantifying Cross-Lingual Interference: Algorithmic Standardization of Kamtapuri in Large Language Models

Roumak Das

Grammatical Error Correction for Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Zarma

Mamadou K. Keita, Adwoa Bremang, Huy Le, Dennis Owusu, Marcos Zampieri

Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medication Question Answering on Nigerian Drug Labels in Yorùbá

Aramide Adebesin, Zainab Tairu

BanglaLlama: LLaMA for Bangla Language

Abdullah Khan Zehady, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Naymul Islam, Safi Al Mamun, Santu Karmaker

To make someone do something: mining alert-style directives in Bulgarian social media for low-resource language modelling

Ruslana Margova, Stanislav Penkov

Making Large Language Models Speak Tulu: Structured Prompting for an Extremely Low-Resource Language

Prathamesh Devadiga, Paras Chopra

When Multilingual Evaluation Assumptions Fail: Tokenization Effects Across Scripts

Manodyna K H, Luc De Nardi

Competence Collapse in Code-Mixed Generation: Spectral Evidence and Mechanistic Recovery via Cross-Lingual Activation Steering

Tanushree Ravindra Pratap Yadav

Do Tokenizers Fail on Informal Hindi Expressions? Evidence from Static, Downstream, and Robustness Analyses

Manikandan Ravikiran, Tanmay Tiwari, Vibhu Gupta, Rakesh Prakash, Rohit Saluja

NE-BERT: A Multilingual Language Model for Nine Northeast Indian Languages

Badal Nyalang

From sunblock to softblock: Analyzing the correlates of neology in published writing and on social media

Maria Ryskina, Matthew R. Gormley, Kyle Mahowald, David R. Mortensen, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Rethinking Metrics for Lexical Semantic Change Detection

Roksana Goworek, Haim Dubossarsky

A Computational Analysis of the Emergence of Therapy-speak in Social Media

Alina Iacob, Ana Sabina Uban

Using BERT to Explore Lexical Semantic Change of Prepositions

Liudmila Radchankava, Vasily Konovalov

Semantic Change Characterization with LLMs using Rhetorics

Jáder Martins Camboim de Sá, Jooyoung Lee, Marcos Da Silveira, Cédric Pruski

Transparent Semantic Change Detection with Dependency-Based Profiles

Bach Phan Tat, Kris Heylen, Dirk Geeraerts, Stefano De Pascale, Dirk Speelman

DHPLT: large-scale multilingual diachronic corpora and word representations for semantic change modelling

Mariia Fedorova, Andrey Kutuzov, Khonzoda Umarova

Using Correspondence Patterns to Identify Irregular Words in Cognate Sets Through Leave-One-Out Validation

Frederic Blum, Johann-Mattis List

Threshold-Calibrated Word Sense Disambiguation: Semantic Broadening Without Sense Redistribution in Schizophrenia

Naomi Baes, Nick Haslam

Cross-lingual Lexical Semantic Change in Romance Languages

Ana Sabina Uban, Liviu P Dinu, Anca Daniela Dinu, Simona Georgescu

The Tonogenesis Continuum in Tibetan: A Computational Investigation

Siyu Liang, Zhaxi Zerong

Statistical Semantic Change Detection via Usage Similarities

Taichi Aida, Daichi Mochihashi, Hiroya Takamura, Toshinobu Ogiso, Mamoru Komachi

The SlangTrack Dataset: Supporting the Detection of Words Used in Slang Senses

Afnan Mohammed Aloraini, Riza Batista-Navarro, Goran Nenadic, Viktor Schlegel

Measuring the Symbolic Power of Languages with LLM-based Multilingual Persuasion Simulation

Yin Jou Huang, Fei Cheng

WikiFirst: A Genre-Fixed, Content-controlled Corpus for Evaluating Content Effects in Authorship Analysis

Dung Nguyen, G. Çağatay Sat, Evgeny Pyshkin, John Blake

Generative Information Extraction from Biographical Sources

Robin Winkle, Manfred Stede, Jörn Kreutel

AI Corpus Linguist: More than a Year of Experience

Jiří Milička, Tomáš Machálek

Too Long, Didn’t Model: Decomposing LLM Long Context Understanding With Novels

Sil Hamilton, Rebecca Hicke, Mia Ferrante, Matthew Wilkens, David Mimno

Evaluating Humanities Theory Alignment in Large Language Models: Incremental Prompting and Statistical Assessment

Axel Pichler, Janis Pagel

Sense-Based Annotation of Geographical Nouns in Ancient Greek and Latin: A Diachronic Study with LLMs

Andrea Farina, Michele Ciletti, Barbara McGillivray, Andrea Ballatore

Narrative in Short German Prose: A Multi-Phenomenon Dataset for Computational Literary Analysis

Hans Ole Hatzel, Haimo Stiemer, Evelyn Gius, Chris Biemann

Detecting reported speech as a token classification task: an application to Classical Latin?

Agustin Dei

How to Efficiently Explore Noisy Historical Data? Leveraging Corpus Pre-Targeting to Enhance Graph-based RAG

Donghan Bian, Marie Puren, Florian Cafiero

Degree Zero of Translation: Using Interlinear Baselines to Quantify Translator Intervention

Maciej Rapacz, Aleksander Smywiński-Pohl

Stylometric Approach to AI-generated Texts. An Analysis of Contemporary French-Language Literature

Adam Pawłowski, Tomasz Walkowiak

Modeling Linguistic Imprints of War Propaganda in a Russian Wikipedia Fork: A Comparative Analysis with the Original Wikipedia

Anastasiia Vestel, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb

WikiLingDiv: a dataset for quantifying digital linguistic diversity using Wikipedia page views

Hannes Essfors, Andreas Baumann

Quantitative Analysis of Rhyme and Metre in LLM-generated Translations of Poetry

Jan-Felix Klumpp

Semantic Factor Analysis: Validating Personality Structure Recovery from empirically-mediated Word Embeddings

Oliver Muller

Harder than Finding the Lost Sheep? Towards Automatically Suggesting Deliberate Metaphor Annotations in German Sermons

Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Stefanie Dipper

Speaking on Their Behalf: Detecting Indirect Speech in Historical Danish and Norwegian Texts

Ali Al-Laith, Alexander Conroy, Kirstine Degn, Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Daniel Hershcovich

Modeling Changing Scientific Concepts with Complex Networks: A Case Study on the Chemical Revolution

Sofia Aguilar Valdez, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb

Stylistic Transfer from Annotator Communities to Large Language Models

Jay Chooi

Catalogues as Data: Interpretable NLP Pipelines for Ottoman-Turkish Bibliographies

Mark Hill, Ayse Bulus, Paul Spence

Measuring Social Integration Through Participation: Categorizing Organizations and Leisure Activities in the Displaced Karelians Interview Archive using LLMs

Joonatan Laato, Veera Schroderus, Jenna Kanerva, Jenni Kauppi, Virpi Lummaa

Style as Signature: Profile-Based Authorship Verification of Mihai Eminescu’s Journalistic Corpus

Ioana-Roxana Boriceanu, Liviu Dinu

LLMs Got Rhyme? Hybrid Phonological Filtering for Greek Poetry Rhyme Detection and Generation

Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Anastasia Natsina

GlobLingDiv: A global dataset linking linguistic diversity and digital support to reveal landscapes with under-resourced languages for NLP

Katharina Zeh, Hannes Essfors, Juliane Benson, Lale Tüver, Andreas Baumann

Invisible Speakers? Gender Disparity in German AI Discourse and Its Reflection in Language Models

Milena Belosevic

Weakly Supervised Named Entity Recognition for Historical Texts

Marco Sorbi, Laurent Moccozet, Stephane Marchand-Maillet

Identity Without Action: Rethinking Collective Action Models in Disinformation Research

Lorella Viola

CroCoSyn: A Cross-Lingual and Cross-Model Corpus of LLM-Generated Film Synopses

Louis Escouflaire

Studying Expert-ese: Profiling and Classification of Domain-Specific Language Variation in Architecture with Traditional Machine Learning and LLMs

Carmen Schacht, Renate Delucchi Danhier

Armenian AutoEpiDoc: Automated Extraction and Encoding of Armenian Inscriptions into EpiDoc TEI/XML

Hamest Tamrazyan, Emile Cornamusaz, Emanuela Boros

From Corpus to Concept Scheme: Developing a SKOS Vocabulary for Armenian Epigraphic Heritage

Hamest Tamrazyan, Kamal Nour, Emanuela Boros

DementiaBank-Emotion: A Multi-Rater Emotion Annotation Corpus for Alzheimer’s Disease Speech (Version 1.0)

Cheonkam Jeong, Jessica Liao, Audrey Lu, Yutong Song, Christopher Rashidian

StressRoBERTa: Cross-Condition Transfer Learning from Depression, Anxiety, and PTSD to Stress Detection

Amal Abdullah Alqahtani, Efsun Kayi, Mona T. Diab

Delayed Wh-Question Development in Children with Hearing Loss: Evidence for Morphosyntactic Vulnerability from Corpus-Based NLP and LLM Analyses

Tong Wu

Empathy as interactional accomplishment in clinical interactions with a conversational agent

Spencer Hazel, Adam Brandt, Yajie Vera He, Ernest Lim, Jared Joselowitz

Towards Inclusive Communication in Cancer Prevention and Treatment: A Case Study on Italian Informational Materials

Chiara Cassani, Luca Brigada Villa, Marco Forlano, Serena Coschignano, Amelia Barcellini