EACL 2026

1,430 papers

Current state of LLMs for Arabic dialectal machine translation

Josef Jon, Rawan Bondok, Ondřej Bojar

Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of Self-Supervised Models for Arabic Speech Recognition

Wafa Mohammed Alshehri, Wasfi G. Al-khatib, Mohammad Ismail Amro

AraModernBERT: Transtokenized Initialization and Long-Context Encoder Modeling for Arabic

Omar Elshehy, Omer Nacar, Abdelbasset Djamai, Muhammed Ragab, Khloud Al Jallad

QAMAR: A New Fully Verified and Accurate Quranic Arabic Morphological Analysis Resource.

Sara Faqihi, Karim Bouzoubaa, Rachida Tajmout, Driss Namly

Code-Switching as a Safety Failure Mode in Large Language Models: An Empirical Study of Roman Urdu across English, Mixed, and Transliteration-Only Inputs

Waleed Jamil, Saima Rafi

HACS-TL: Cross-Script Transfer Learning for Hausa Ajami Hate Speech Detection Using Transformer-Based Architecture

Abdulkadir Shehu Bichi, Muqaddar Ali, Prashant Sharma, Ismail Dauda Abubakar

A Corpus-Based Investigation of Contemporary Arabic Dialects Using the SADA Corpus

Ghada Alfattni

DeformAR: A Visual Analytics Framework for Evaluation of Arabic Named Entity Recognition

Ahmed Mustafa Younes

Arabic Citation Parsing using Part of Speech and Named Entity Recognition

Youssef Karout, Hadi Hammoud, Fadi Zaraket

Hala Technical Report Building Arabic-Centric Instruction & Translation Models at Scale

Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Mohamad Bilal Zbib, Bernard Ghanem

OMAN-SPEECH: A Multi-Layer Annotated Speech Corpus for Omani Arabic Dialects

Rayyan S. Al Khadhuri, Firas Al Mahrouqi, Salim Al Mandhari, Amir Azad Al-Kathiri, Omar Said Alshahri

Improving on State-of-the-Art Models for Sentiment Analysis on Saudi-English Code-Switching Text

Samaher Alghamdi, Paul Rayson, Reem Alotibi

Back-of-the-Book Index Automation for Arabic Documents

Nawal Haidar, Ahmad Kashmar, Fadi Zaraket

Enhancing Urdu Sentiment Classification through Instruction-Tuned LLMs and Cross-Lingual Transfer

Hasan Faraz Khan, Noor Fatima, Irfan Ahmad

Alkhalil Corpus: An Open-Source Thematic and Lemmatized Corpus for Modern Standard Arabic

Samir Belayachi, Azzeddine Mazroui

From Classical to Contemporary: Evolutionary Analysis & Classification of Urdu Poetry

Noor Fatima, Hasan Faraz Khan, Irfan Ahmad

Olga Snissarenko at AbjadMed: Arabic Clinical Text Classification with AraBERT: Results from the AbjadMed Shared Task

Olga Snissarenko

Morphological Feature Extraction for Fine-Grained Sorani Kurdish Dialect Identification: A Hybrid Transformer-Linguistic Approach

Soumedhik Bharati, Shibam Mandal, Subham Majumdar, Swarup Kr Ghosh, Sayani Mondal

AjamiMorph: Zero-Annotation Morphological Discovery for Hausa Ajami via Multi-Method Consensus

Soumedhik Bharati, Shibam Mandal, Prithwish Ghosh, Swarup Kr Ghosh, Sayani Mondal

QurSci-Onto: A Hierarchical Ontology and Dataset for Scientific Exegesis in the Quran

Ibad-ur-Rehman Rashid, Junaid Hussain, Sadam Al-Azani

MetaSwarm at AbjadMed: Forensic Optimization and Class-Balanced Discovery for Medical Diglossia in Abjad Scripts

Rahul Jaisy

Tashkees-AI at AbjadMed 2026: Flat vs. Hierarchical Classification for Fine-Grained Arabic Medical QA

Fatimah Mohamed Emad Eldin

REIGNITE at AbjadMed: Imbalance-Aware Fine-Tuning of Pretrained Arabic Transformers for Arabic Medical Text Classification Task

Nahid Montasir Rifat, Foyez Ahmed Dewan

Supachoke at AbjadMed: Enhancing Arabic Medical Text Classification Using Fine-Tuned AraBERT

Thanh Phu Nguyen, Tuan Thai Huy Nguyen Cu, Son Thai Pham, Tri Duy Ho Nguyen

baellouf at AbjadMed: Efficient Fine-tuning with All-Linear LoRA for Arabic Medical QA Classification

Abdallah Khallouf

KvochurHegel at AbjadMed: Combining LDAM Loss and Adversarial Training for Arabic Medical Question-Answer Classification

Minh-Hoang Le

ArabicMedicalBERT-QA-82 at AbjadMed: Fighting Class Imbalance in Arabic Medical Text Classification

Gleb Shanshin

Orthographic Robustness of Persian Named Entity Recognition Models

Henry Gagnier, Sophie Gagnier

GATech at AbjadMed: Bidirectional Encoders vs. Causal Decoders: Insights from 82-Class Arabic Medical Classification

Ahmed Khamis

MedArabs at AbjadMed: Arabic Medical Text Classification via Data- and Algorithm-Level Fusion

Amrita Singh

Arabic Dialect Translation with Small LLMs: Enhancing through Reasoning-Oriented Reinforcement Learning

Sohaila Abdulsattar, Keith Ross

Character-Level Transformer for Tajik–Persian Transliteration with a Parallel Lexical Corpus

Arabov Mullosharaf Kurbonovich

Seeing Words Differently: Visual Embeddings for Robust English-Arabic Machine Translation

Mahdi Alshaikh Saleh, Irfan Ahmad

KazakhOCR: A Synthetic Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Models in Low-Resource Kazakh Script OCR

Henry Gagnier, Sophie Gagnier, Ashwin Kirubakaran

HCMUS_PrompterXPrompter at AbjadMed: When Classification Meets Retrieval: Taming the Long Tail in Arabic Medical Text Classification

Duy Minh Dao Sy, Trung Kiet Huynh, Nguyen Dinh Ha Duong, Nguyen Chi Tran, Phu Quy Nguyen Lam

LLM-to-Speech: A Synthetic Data Pipeline for Training Dialectal Text-to-Speech Models

Ahmed Khamis, Hesham Ali Ahmed

Tarab: A Multi-Dialect Corpus of Arabic Lyrics and Poetry

Mo El-Haj

Optimizer Choice and Calibration for QARiB on Arabic-Script Social Media Offensive Language Detection

Auda Elshokry, Mohammed Alhanjouri

Optimizing What We Trust: Reliability-Guided QUBO Selection of Multi-Agent Weak Framing Signals for Arabic Sentiment Prediction

Rabab Alkhalifa

Rethinking Polarity Detection: When BPE Fails Across Scripts

Manodyna K H, Luc De Nardi

ArabicDialectHub: A Cross-Dialectal Arabic Learning Resource and Platform

Salem Lahlou

ILSIC: Corpora for Identifying Indian Legal Statutes from Queries by Laymen

Shounak Paul, Raghav Dogra, Pawan Goyal, Saptarshi Ghosh

Cards Against Contamination: TCG-Bench for Difficulty-Scalable Multilingual LLM Reasoning

Sultan AlRashed, Jianghui Wang, Francesco Orabona

Scaling Cultural Resources for Improving Generative Models

Hayk Stepanyan, Aishwarya Verma, Andrew Zaldivar, Rutledge Chin Feman, Erin MacMurray van Liemt

Training-Free Text Emotion Tagging via LLM-Based Best-Worst Scaling

Lukas Christ, Shahin Amiriparian

CrisiText: A dataset of warning messages for LLM training in emergency communication

Giacomo Gonella, Gian Maria Campedelli, Stefano Menini, Marco Guerini

Active Learning with Non-Uniform Costs for African Natural Language Processing

Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Ines Arous, Audrey Durand, Jackie Chi Kit CHEUNG

Abstractive Summarization of Bengali Academic Videos Based on Audio Subtitles

Lamisa Bintee Mizan Deya, Farhatun Shama, Abdul Aziz, Md Kaykobad Reza, Md Shahidul Salim

When Do Language Models Endorse Limitations on Human Rights Principles?

Keenan Samway, Miu Nicole Takagi, Rada Mihalcea, Bernhard Schölkopf, Ilias Chalkidis

MapCoder-Lite: Distilling Multi-Agent Coding into a Single Small LLM

Woongkyu Lee, Junhee Cho, Jungwook Choi

Vietnamese Automatic Speech Recognition: A Revisit

Thi Vu, Linh The Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen

FactAppeal: Identifying Epistemic Factual Appeals in News Media

Guy Mor-Lan, Tamir Sheafer, Shaul R. Shenhav

Visual–Linguistic Abductive Reasoning with LLMs for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering

Jieun Kim, Yujin Jeong, Sung-Bae Cho

AGIC: Attention-Guided Image Captioning to Improve Caption Relevance

L D M S Sai Teja, Ashok Urlana, Pruthwik Mishra

Teaching Old Tokenizers New Words: Efficient Tokenizer Adaptation for Pretrained Models

Taido Purason, Pavel Chizhov, Ivan P. Yamshchikov, Mark Fishel

MEENA (PersianMMMU): Multimodal-Multilingual Educational Exams for N-level Assessment

Omid Ghahroodi, Arshia Hemmat, Marzia Nouri, Seyed Mohammad Hadi Hosseini, Doratossadat Dastgheib

Sequence Repetition Enhances Token Embeddings and Improves Sequence Labeling with Decoder-only Language Models

Matija Luka Kukić, Marko Čuljak, David Dukić, Martin Tutek, Jan Šnajder

DeVisE: Towards the Behavioral Testing of Medical Large Language Models

Camila Zurdo Tagliabue, Heloisa Oss Boll, Aykut Erdem, Erkut Erdem, Iacer Calixto

Learning from Child-directed Speech in Two-language Scenarios: A French-English Case-Study

Liel Binyamin, Elior Sulem

PsyProbe: Proactive and Interpretable Dialogue through User State Modeling for Exploratory Counseling

Sohhyung Park, Hyunji Kang, Sungzoon Cho, Dongil Kim

Learning to Judge: LLMs Designing and Applying Evaluation Rubrics

Clemencia Siro, Pourya Aliannejadi, Mohammad Aliannejadi

MMUIE: Massive Multi-Domain Universal Information Extraction for Long Documents

Shuyi Zhang, Zhenbin Chen, Shuting Li, Kewei Tu, Li Jing

IMRNNs: An Efficient Method for Interpretable Dense Retrieval via Embedding Modulation

Yash Saxena, Ankur Padia, Kalpa Gunaratna, Manas Gaur

SrcMix: Mixing of Related Source Languages Benefits Extremely Low-resource Machine Translation

Sanjeev Kumar, Preethi Jyothi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Query4Regex: Verifiable Regex Transformation through Formal Operations from NL and DSL Queries

Joonghyuk Hahn, Yo-Sub Han

Multi-Hall-SA: A Cross-lingual Benchmark for Multi-Type Hallucination Detection in Low-Resource South African Languages

Sello Ralethe, Jan Buys

Decoding Time Series with LLMs: A Multi-Agent Framework for Cross-Domain Annotation

Minhua Lin, Zhengzhang Chen, Yanchi Liu, Xujiang Zhao, Zongyu Wu

Turn-PPO: Turn-Level Advantage Estimation with PPO for Improved Multi-Turn RL in Agentic LLMs

Junbo Li, Peng Zhou, Rui Meng, Meet P. Vadera, Lihong Li

FINEST: Improving LLM Responses to Sensitive Topics Through Fine-Grained Evaluation

Juhyun Oh, Nayeon Lee, Chani Jung, Jiho Jin, Junho Myung

DAMASHA: Detecting AI in Mixed Adversarial Texts via Segmentation with Human-interpretable Attribution

L D M S Sai Teja, N Siva Gopala Krishna, Ufaq Khan, Muhammad Haris Khan, Atul Mishra

Thinking Beyond the Local: Multi-View Instructed Adaptive Reasoning in KG-Enhanced LLMs

Minghan Zhang, Shu Zhao, Zhen Yang, Hongsheng Wu, Yongxing Lin

How to Contextualize Empirical Data for Risk Analysis with LLMs: A Case Study of Power Outages

Haiyun Huang, Yukun Li, Marco A Pretell, Jacob Naroian, Ebadah Khan

SD-E2: Semantic Exploration for Reasoning Under Token Budgets

Kshitij Mishra, Nils Lukas, Salem Lahlou

Evaluating Multi-Hop Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Chemistry-Centric Benchmark

Mohammad Khodadad, Ali Shiraee Kasmaee, Mahdi Astaraki, Nicholas Sherck, Hamidreza Mahyar

LARA: LLM-based Agile Power Distribution Network Restoration from Disastrous Events

Jishnu Warrier, Heqing Huang, Yuzhang Lin, Sai Qian Zhang

Task-aware Block Pruning with Output Distribution Signals for Large Language Models

Song-ha Jo, Youngrok Ko, Sang-goo Lee, Jinseok Seol

Quantifying Data Contamination in Psychometric Evaluations of LLMs

Jongwook Han, Woojung Song, Jonggeun Lee, Yohan Jo

Coding Agents with Multimodal Browsing are Generalist Problem Solvers

Aditya Bharat Soni, Boxuan Li, Xingyao Wang, Valerie Chen, Graham Neubig

NL2Logic: AST-Guided Translation of Natural Language into First-Order Logic with Large Language Models

Rizky Ramadhana Putra, Raihan Sultan Pasha Basuki, Yutong Cheng, peng gao

Role-Conditioned Refusals: Evaluating Access Control Reasoning in Large Language Models

Đorđe Klisura, Joseph Khoury, Ashish Kundu, Ram Krishnan, Anthony Rios

Think Hard Only When Needed: A Hybrid Best-of-N and Beam Search for Efficient Test-Time Compute

Hyewon Suh, Chaojian Li, Cheng-Jhih Shih, Zheng Wang, Kejing Xia

Event Detection with a Context-Aware Encoder and LoRA for Improved Performance on Long-Tailed Classes

Abdullah Al Monsur, Nitesh Vamshi Bommisetty, Gene Louis Kim

Evaluating Sparse Autoencoders for Monosemantic Representation

Moghis Fereidouni, Muhammad Umair Haider, Peizhong Ju, A.b. Siddique

QueStER: Query Specification for Generative Keyword-Based Retrieval

Arthur Satouf, Yuxuan Zong, Habiboulaye Amadou Boubacar, Pablo Piantanida, Benjamin Piwowarski

Reasoning Beyond Literal: Cross-style Multimodal Reasoning for Figurative Language Understanding

Seyyed Saeid Cheshmi, Hahnemann Ortiz, James Mooney, Dongyeop Kang

Argument-Based Consistency in Toxicity Explanations of LLMs

Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Joanna Roy, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha

Distill and Align Decomposition for Enhanced Claim Verification

Jabez Magomere, Elena Kochkina, Samuel Mensah, Simerjot Kaur, Fernando Acero

Can Models Help Us Create Better Models? Evaluating LLMs as Data Scientists

Michał Pietruszka, Łukasz Borchmann, Aleksander Jędrosz, Paweł Morawiecki

Beyond a Single Extractor: Re-thinking HTML-to-Text Extraction for LLM Pre-training

Jeffrey Li, Joshua P Gardner, Doug Kang, Fangping Shi, Karanjeet Singh

Token-Wise Kernels (TWiKers) for Vicinity-Aware Attention in Transformers

Kuangdai Leng, Jia Bi, Samuel Pinilla, Jaehoon Cha

Better Call CLAUSE: A Discrepancy Benchmark for Auditing LLMs Legal Reasoning Capabilities

Manan Roy Choudhury, Adithya Chandramouli, Mannan Anand, Vivek Gupta

Compositional Reasoning via Joint Image and Language Decomposition

Dwip Dalal, Madhav Kanda, Zhenhailong Wang, Heng Ji, Unnat Jain

Neural network embeddings recover value dimensions from psychometric survey items on par with human data

Max Pellert, Clemens M Lechner, Indira Sen, Markus Strohmaier

What Matters to an LLM? Behavioral and Computational Evidences from Summarization

Yongxin Zhou, Changshun Wu, Philippe Mulhem, Didier Schwab, Maxime Peyrard

A Domain-Specific Curated Benchmark for Entity and Document-Level Relation Extraction

Marco Martinelli, Stefano Marchesin, Vanessa Bonato, Giorgio Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro

MaskLoRA: Low-Rank Subspace–Induced Token Masking for Efficient and Faithful Language Models

Rifat Rafiuddin

RADAR: A Reasoning-Guided Attribution Framework for Explainable Visual Data Analysis

Anku Rani, Aparna Garimella, Apoorv Saxena, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Paul Pu Liang

Test-time Corpus Feedback: From Retrieval to RAG

Mandeep Rathee, Venktesh V, Sean MacAvaney, Avishek Anand

Punctuations and Predicates in Language Models

Sonakshi Chauhan, Maheep Chaudhary, Choy Kwan Kiu, Samuel Nellessen, Nandi Schoots

FactSelfCheck: Fact-Level Black-Box Hallucination Detection for LLMs

Albert Sawczyn, Jakub Binkowski, Denis Janiak, Bogdan Gabrys, Tomasz Jan Kajdanowicz