EACL 2026

1,430 papers

Data Augmentation Based on Selective Masking of Language Models for One Health Context

Youssef Mahdoubi, Najlae Idrissi, Mathieu Roche, Sarah Valentin

A Multimodal Framework for Aphasia Severity Classification in Russian

Kolmogorova Anastasia, Ekaterina Yavshitz, Anastasia Margolina, Anna Sugian

Linguistic Features Competitive with Bert! Leveraging Speech for Detection of Mental Health in Paediatric Lupus

Jida Jaffan, Barend Beekhuizen, Andrea Knight

Importance of Prompt Optimisation for Error Detection in Medical Notes Using Language Models

Craig Myles, Patrick Schrempf, David Harris-Birtill

Why Are We Lonely? Leveraging LLMs to Measure and Understand Loneliness in Caregivers and Non-caregivers

Michelle Damin Kim, Ellie S. Paek, Yufen Lin, Emily Mroz, Jane Chung

Tracking Autism Stigma in Italian Newspapers: A Longitudinal Analysis of Media Discourse (2016–2025)

Ginevra Martinelli, Chiara Barattieri Di San Pietro, Daniela Ovadia, Marta Bosia, Valentina Bambini

LLM Plug-ins Are Not a Free Lunch for Clinical Time-Series Prediction

Juhwan Choi, Kwanhyung Lee, Sangchul Hahn, Eunho Yang

From Pain to Praise: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Norwegian Patient Feedback

Lilja Charlotte Storset, Elma Jelin, Rebecka Maria Norman, Oyvind Bjertnaes, Lilja Øvrelid

Normalizing Health Concepts with Biomedical Embedding and LLMs

Iram Azam, Keyuan Jiang, Gordon Bernard

Modulating Multi-Label Tendency in Zero-Shot LLM Coding: The Effect of Output Structure on CDSS Feedback Analysis

Hyunwoo Choo, Sungsoo Hong

Cross-Lingual Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models for Arabic Medical Tasks

Chaimae Abouzahir, Congbo Ma, Nizar Habash, Farah E. Shamout

Who Judges the Judge? Evaluating LLM-as-a-Judge for French Medical open-ended QA

Ikram Belmadani, Oumaima El Khettari, Pacome Constant Dit Beaufils, Richard Dufour, Benoit Favre

Mind Your Steps in Biomedical Named Entity Recognition: First Extract, Tag Afterwards

Darya Shlyk, Stefano Montanelli, Marco Mesiti, Lawrence Hunter

Almost Clinical: Linguistic properties of synthetic electronic health records

Serge Sharoff, John Baker, Dr David Francis Hunt, Alan Simpson

Graph-Enhanced LLM Analysis of Multimodal Health Communities: A Computational Framework for Patient Discourse Understanding on TikTok

Tawakalit Agboola, Oluwaseun Ajao

An Enhanced Training-Free Pipeline for Entity Recognition and Linking: A Low-Resource Case Study – 20-th Century Historical Medical Texts

Phu-Vinh Nguyen, Vera Danilova

Position: Biomedical NLP Demands Specialization, Not Generalization

Azmine Toushik Wasi

A Graph-Augmented Liquid Neural Network for Extracting Food Hazards and Disease Outbreaks

Tirthankar Dasgupta, Manjira Sinha, Sudeshna Jana, Diya Saha, Ishan Verma

Semantic Echo Pathways (SEP): Tracing How Medical Language Propagates and Transforms

Charu Karakkaparambil James, Marcio Monteiro, Sophie Fellenz

Linguistic Blind Spots in Clinical Decision Extraction

Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri

Discourses of Prevention: A Multimodal Study of HPV Vaccination Campaigns in Italy

Claudia Roberta Combei, Antonio Bianco, Elena Giribaldi, Adalberto Lovotti, Valentina Ghirotto

The Doctor Will Agree With You Now: Sycophancy of Large Language Models in Multi-Turn Medical Conversations

Taeil Matthew Kim, Luyang Luo, Sung Eun Kim, Arjun Kumar Manrai, Eric Topol

Do Mixed-Vendor Multi-Agent LLMs Improve Clinical Diagnosis?

Grace Chang Yuan, Xiaoman Zhang, Sung Eun Kim, Pranav Rajpurkar

The order of subject, object and verb in Tatyshly Udmurt

Daria Belova, Irina Khomchenkova

Quantitative Lect Description: A Case Study of Lemko from the Field Data of 1920s-1930s

Ilia Afanasev

Short-form verbal arts as a speech data resource in the field

Matthew Faytak, Tianle Yang, Pius Wuchu Akumbu, Ivo Forghema Njuasi, Eric Le Ferrand

Linguistically Informed Tokenization Improves ASR for Underresourced Languages

Massimo Marie Daul, Alessio Tosolini, Claire Bowern

Hybrid Neural-LLM Pipeline for Morphological Glossing in Endangered Language Documentation: A Case Study of Jungar Tuvan

Siyu Liang, Talant Mawkanuli, Gina-Anne Levow

What NLP Gets Wrong About Contact: Implications for Field Linguistic Evidence

Manodyna K H

Automated Quality Control for Language Documentation: Detecting Phonotactic Inconsistencies in a Kokborok Wordlist

Kellen Parker Van Dam, Abishek Stephen

AIC CTU@AVerImaTeC: dual-retriever RAG for image-text fact checking

Herbert Ullrich, Jan Drchal

Selective Multimodal Retrieval for Automated Verification of Image–Text Claims

Yoana Tsoneva, Paul-Conrad Feig, Jiaao Li, Veronika Solopova, Neda Foroutan

VILLAIN at AVerImaTeC: Verifying Image–Text Claims via Multi-Agent Collaboration

Jaeyoon Jung, Yejun Yoon, Seunghyun Yoon, Kunwoo Park

REVEAL: Retrieval-Enhanced Verification for Multimodal Fact-Checking

Amina Tariq, Yova Kementchedjhieva

Take It All: Ensemble Retrieval for Multimodal Evidence Aggregation

Max Upravitelev, Veronika Solopova, Premtim Sahitaj, Ariana Sahitaj, Charlott Jakob

The Automatic Verification of Image-Text Claims (AVerImaTeC) Shared Task

Rui Cao, Yulong Chen, Zhenyun Deng, Michael Schlichtkrull, Andreas Vlachos

BiCon-Gate: Consistency-Gated De-colloquialisation for Dialogue Fact-Checking

Hyunkyung Park, Arkaitz Zubiaga

The Energy of Falsehood: Detecting Hallucinations via Diffusion Model Likelihoods

Arpit Singh Gautam, Kailash Talreja, Saurabh Jha

Evidence Grounding vs. Memorization: Why Neural Semantics Matter for Knowledge Graph Fact Verification

Ankit Kumar Upadhyay, John S. Erickson, Deborah L. McGuinness

POaaS: Minimal-Edit Prompt Optimization as a Service to Lift Accuracy and Cut Hallucinations on On-Device sLLMs

Jungwoo Shim, Dae Won Kim, Sunwook Kim, Sooyoung Kim, Myungcheol Lee

Weakly-supervised Argument Mining with Boundary Refinement and Relation Denoising

Wei Sun, Mingxiao Li, Jesse Davis, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata

AfriNLLB: Efficient Translation Models for African Languages

Yasmin Moslem, Aman Kassahun Wassie, Amanuel Gizachew Abebe

Using Subword-Embeddings for Bilingual Lexicon Induction in Bantu Languages

Adrian Breiding, Alan Akbik

Eyaa-Tom 26, Yodi-Mantissa and Lom Bench: A Community Benchmark for TTS in Local Languages

Bakoubolo Essowe Justin, Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman, Messan Agbobli, Ahoefa Kansiwer, Eli Jean Doumeyan

Enhancing Automatic Speech Recognition Models for Maternal and Reproductive Health: Fine-Tuning and Real-World Evaluation in Wolof

Ertony Basilwango, Yann Le Beux, Oche David Ankeli, Pierre Herve Berdys

Where Are We at with Automatic Speech Recognition for the Bambara Language?

Seydou Diallo, Yacouba Diarra, Panga Azazia Kamate, Aboubacar Ouattara, Mamadou K. Keita

Sudanese-Flores: Extending FLORES+ to Sudanese Arabic Dialect

Hadia Mohmmedosman Ahmed Samil, David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Power Asymmetries, Bias, and AI, a Reflection of Society on Low-Resourced Languages - African Languages as Case Study

Simbiat Ajao

Evaluating Yoruba Text-to-Speech Systems for Accessible Computer-Based Testing in Visually Impaired Learners

Kausar Yetunde Moshood, Victor Tolulope Olufemi, Oreoluwa Boluwatife Babatunde, Emmanuel Bolarinwa, Williams Oluwademilade

Sample-Size Scaling of the African Languages NLI Evaluation

Anuj Tiwari, Oluwapelumi Ogunremu, Terry Oko-odion, Jesujuwon Egbewale, Hannah Sopuruchi Nwokocha

SALT-31: A Machine Translation Benchmark Dataset for 31 Ugandan Languages

Solomon Nsumba, Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula Ouma, Medadi E. Ssentanda, Deo Kawalya

Real-Time Spoken Instruction Following and Translation in Ugandan Languages

Benjamin Akera, Tim Wenjie Hu, Patrick Walukagga, Evelyn Nafula Ouma, Yiga Gilbert

Full Fine-Tuning vs. Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for Low-Resource African ASR: A Controlled Study with Whisper-Small

Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Muhammad Yahuza Bello, Hadiza Ali Umar, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Idris Abdulmumin

Kunnafonidilaw ka Cadeau: an ASR dataset of present-day Bambara

Michael Leventhal, Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Coulibaly, Panga Azazia Kamate

Morphologically-informed Somali Lemmatization Corpus built with a Web-based Crowdsourcing Platform

Abdifatah Ahmed Gedi, Shafie Abdi Mohamed, Yusuf A. Yusuf, Muhidin A. Mohamed, Fuad Mire Hassan

Building a Conversational AI Assistant for African Travel Services with LLMs and RAG

Grace Kevine Ngoufo, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Kevin Jeff Fogang Fokoa

Evaluating Native-Speaker Preferences on Machine Translation and Post-Edits for Five African Languages

Hiba El Oirghi, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Marine Carpuat

Linguistically Informed Evaluation of Multilingual ASR for African Languages

Fei-Yueh Chen, Lateef Adeleke, C. M. Downey

Advancing African NLP: UDMorph and flexiPipe

Maarten Janssen

Synthetic Data Generation Pipeline for Low-Resource Swahili Sentiment Analysis: Multi-LLM Judging with Human Validation

Samuel Gyamfi, Alfred Malengo Kondoro, Yankı Öztürk, Richard Hans Schreiber, Vadim Borisov

EduNaija AI Tutor: A Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation System for Nigerian Curriculum Education

Israel Olanrewaju Odeajo, Edifon Emmanuel Jimmy

The Token Tax: Systematic Bias in Multilingual Tokenization

Jessica M. Lundin, Ada Zhang, Nihal Karim, Hamza Louzan, Guohao Wei

Language Choice in Nigerian Social Media Hate Speech

Nneoma C Udeze, Rob Voigt

ÒWE-Voice: An Evaluation of Monolingual and Multilingual ASR Model Using Yoruba Proverb Speech Dataset

Daud Abolade

Reasoning Beyond Labels: Measuring LLM Sentiment in Low-Resource, Culturally Nuanced Contexts

Millicent Ochieng, Anja Thieme, Ignatius Ezeani, Risa Ueno, Samuel Chege Maina

Developing an English–Efik Corpus and Machine Translation System for Digitization Inclusion

Offiong Bassey Edet, Mbuotidem Awak, Emmanuel Ubene Oyo-Ita, Benjamin Okon Nyong, Ita Etim Bassey

AfriCaption: Establishing a New Paradigm for Image Captioning in African Languages

Mardiyyah Oduwole, Prince Mireku, Fatimo Adebanjo, Oluwatosin Olajide, Mahi Aminu Aliyu

Leveraging CoHere Multilingual Embeddings and Inverted Softmax Retrieval for Automatic Parallel Sentence Alignment in Low-Resource Languages

Abubakar Auwal Khalid, Salisu Musa Borodo, Amina Abubakar Imam

InstructLR: A Scalable Approach to Create Instruction Dataset for Under-Resourced Languages

Mamadou K. Keita, Sébastien Diarra, Christopher M Homan, Seydou Diallo

M-MiniGPT4: Multilingual VLLM Alignment via Translated Data

Seung Hun Eddie Han, Youssef Mohamed, Mohamed Elhoseiny

Dealing with the Hard Facts of Low-Resource African NLP

Michael Leventhal, Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Coulibaly, Panga Azazia Kamate, Aymane Dembélé

AbjadStyleTransfer: Authorship Style Transfer for Arabic-Script Languages at AbjadNLP 2026

Shadi Abudalfa, Saad Ezzini, Ahmed Abdelali, Mustafa Jarrar, Mo El-Haj

AbjadAuthorID: Authorship Identification for Arabic-Script Languages at AbjadNLP 2026

Shadi Abudalfa, Saad Ezzini, Ahmed Abdelali, Mustafa Jarrar, Mo El-Haj

AbjadGenEval: Abjad AI Generated Text Detection Shared Task for Languages Using Arabic Script at AbjadNLP 2026

Saad Ezzini, Irfan Ahmad, Salmane Chafik, Shadi Abudalfa, Mo El-Haj

R-R at AbjadAuthorID Shared Task: A Fine-Tuned Approach for Kurdish Authorship Identification

Rania Azad M. San Ahmed, Rebwar M. Nabi

Arabic Author Attribution Using Transformer-Based Models: Insights from the AbjadAuthorID Shared Task

Ghader Kurdi

Uslub at AbjadAuthorID Shared Task: A Comparative Analysis of Traditional Machine Learning and Transformer-Based Models for Authorship Attribution in Arabic and Urdu

Shahad Alsuhaibani, Mohamed Alkaoud

AbjadMed: Arabic Medical Text Classification at AbjadNLP 2026

Pranav Gupta, Niranjan Kumar M, Balaji Nagarajan, Imed Zitouni, Mo El-Haj

AyahVerse at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: Monolingual Precision and Cross-Lingual Analysis in Perso-Arabic AI Detection

Fizza Nawaz, Ibad-ur-Rehman Rashid, Uswa Abid, Junaid Hussain

REGLAT at AbjadGenEval: Multi-Model Ensemble Approach for Arabic AI-Generated Text Detection

Mariam Labib Francies, Nsrin Ashraf, Ahmed Megahed Fetouh, Hamada Nayel

NileUn at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: Contrastive Learning with Stacking Ensemble for Efficient Arabic AI-Generated Text Detection

Mohamed Hussein Mohamed, Shrouk Shalaby, Nesreen Mohamed

Kashif-AI at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: A Transformer-based Approach for Arabic AI-Generated Text Detection

Fatimah Mohamed Emad Eldin

QalamID at AbjadAuthorID Shared Task: Morphology Matters, A Hybrid Ensemble for Arabic Authorship Attribution

Youssef Zaghloul

A Stylometric and Statistical Pipeline for Urdu AI-Generated Text Classification

saeed A. Anabtawi

LoRAD: Low-Resource AI-Generated Text Detection with XLM-RoBERTa

Ali Zain

XLMR-Urdu at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: A Data-Centric Transformer-Based Approach for AI-Generated Urdu Text Detection

Mohannad Mohammad Hendi

U-MIRAGE: Benchmarking Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Urdu Medical QA

Ali Faheem, Faizad Ullah, Muhammad Hammad, Ahmed Hassan, Muhammad Sohaib Ayub

HCMUS_PrisonDilemma at AbjadAuthorID Shared Task: Less is More with Base Models

Trung Kiet Huynh, Duy Minh Dao Sy, Nguyen Chi Tran, Pham Phu Hoa, Nguyen Lam Phu Quy

U-RoCX: An xLSTM based Approach to AI-Generated Urdu Text Detection

Rabee Adel Al-Qasem

HCMUS_The Fangs at AbjadStyleTransfer Shared Task: Learning to Query Style, Contrastive Representations for Zero-Shot Arabic Authorship Style Transfer

Duy Minh Dao Sy, Trung Kiet Huynh, Nguyen Chi Tran, Nguyen Lam Phu Quy, Pham Phu Hoa

HCMUS_TheFangs at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: Weighted Layer Pooling with Attention Fusion for Arabic AI-Generated Text Detection

Duy Minh Dao Sy, Nguyen Chi Tran, Trung Kiet Huynh, Nguyen Lam Phu Quy, Pham Phu Hoa

From Posts to Pressure: An Arabic Dataset about Stress and Mental-Health Monitoring

Wajdi Zaghouani, Eman Sedqy Shlkamy, Mabrouka Bessghaier

A Knowledge Graph Based Diagnostic Framework for Analyzing Hallucinations in Arabic Machine Reading Comprehension

Najwa Abdullah AlGhamdi, Sadam Al-Azani, Kwabena Nuamah, Alan Bundy

Sujith Kanakkassery at AbjadMed: Imbalance-Aware Transformer Fine-tuning for Arabic Medical Text Classification

Sujith Kanakkassery

Murabaa: A comprehensive Resource Platform for Arabic Morphology

Karim Bouzoubaa, Driss Namly, Hamid Jihad, Rachida Tajmout, Jamal Ezzouaine

REGLAT at AbjadMed: Handling Imbalanced Arabic Medical Text Classification via Hierarchical KNN-MLP Architecture

Ahmed Megahed Fetouh, Mohammed Rahmath, Omer Dawood, Mariam Labib, Nsrin Ashraf

AraLingBench: A Human-Annotated Benchmark for Evaluating Arabic Linguistic Capabilities of Large Language Models

Mohamad Bilal Zbib, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Ammar Mohanna, Nadine Rizk, Fatima Karnib

GATech at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: Multilingual Embeddings for Arabic Machine-Generated Text Classification

Ahmed Khamis

Arabic-Adapted One-Step Speech-to-Diacritized ASR: Evaluation and Error Analysis

Osamah A. I. Abduljalil, Dalal Ali, Razan A. Bajaman, Abdullah I. Alharbi

A Hybrid Confidence-Aware Framework for Arabic Toxicity Detection in Social Media

Fawzia Zaal Alanazi, Asma Mohammed Alamri, Arwa Bin Saleh, Abdullah I. Alharbi