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SemEval 2026

455 papers

SemEval-2026 Task 7: Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures

Nedjma Ousidhoum, Junho Myung, Carla Perez-Almendros, Jiho Jin, Amr Keleg

SemEval-2026 Task 1: MWAHAHA, Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate

Santiago Castro, Luis Chiruzzo, Santiago Góngora, Naihao Deng, Salar Rahili

SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization

Usman Naseem, Robert Geislinger, Ada Ren, Sarah Kohail, Rudy Garrido Veliz

SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA)

Liang-Chih Yu, Jonas Becker, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Lung-Hao Lee

SemEval-2026 Task 2: Predicting Variation in Emotional Valence and Arousal over Time from Ecological Essays

Nikita Soni, H. Andrew Schwartz, Ryan L. Boyd, Phi Long Bui, Syeda Mahwish

SemEval-2026 Task 11: Disentangling Content and Formal Reasoning in Large Language Models

Marco Valentino, Leonardo Ranaldi, Giulia Pucci, Federico Ranaldi, Andre Freitas

SemEval-2026 Task 6: CLARITY – Unmasking Political Question Evasions

Konstantinos Thomas, Giorgos Filandrianos, Maria Lymperaiou, Chrysoula Zerva, Giorgos Stamou

SemEval-2026 Task 5: Rating Plausibility of Word Senses in Ambiguous Stories through Narrative Understanding

Janosch Gehring, Selina Meyer, Michael Roth

SemEval-2026 Task 8: MTRAGEval: Evaluating Multi-Turn RAG Conversations

Sara Rosenthal, Vraj Shah, Yannis Katsis, Marina Danilevsky

SemEval-2026 Task 12: Abductive Event Reasoning: Towards Real-World Event Causal Inference for Large Language Models

Pengfei Cao, Mingxuan Yang, Yubo Chen, Chenlong Zhang, Mingxuan Liu

SemEval-2026 Task 13: Detecting Machine-Generated Code with Multiple Programming Languages, Generators, and Application Scenarios

Daniil Orel, Dilshod Azizov, Indraneil Paul, Yuxia Wang, Iryna Gurevych

SemEval-2026 Task 10: PsyCoMark – Psycholinguistic Conspiracy Marker Extraction and Detection

Mattia Samory, Felix Soldner, Veronika Batzdorfer

CoPol at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Modeling Polarization Type Co-occurrence with Label Correlation Networks

Pushkar Arora

StanceLab at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Addressing Class Imbalance in Multilingual Polarization Detection

Teodor Ivanusca, Dan Dodun-des-Perrieres, Stefana Gheorghita

Codexa at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Loss Engineering and Diverse Ensemble Strategies for Multi-Class Code Authorship Attribution

Anıl Dervişoğlu, Atakan Site

MoMo at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Inference-Only Prompting vs. Fine-Tuning for Multilingual Polarization Detection

Sushant Ray, Rakshita Saksainaa

NAMAA at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Comparing Generative, Retrieval-Augmented, and Discriminative Methods for Arabic Online Polarization Detection and Type Classification

Abdelbasset Djamai, Sahara Al-Madi, Norah Al-Zaid, Khloud Al Jallad, Mona Azim

GUIR at SemEval-2026 Task 7: Probing Cultural Knowledge in LLMs via Multi-Agent Debate

Reihaneh Iranmanesh, Ophir Frieder, Nazli Goharian

AI@UMS at SemEval-2026 Task 6: Handling Long Question-Answer Pairs with Sliding Window Models for Clarity and Evasion Analysis

Ikhlasul Amal, Zia Ul Zafar, Choiru Firdaus, Endang Pamungkas

ABARUAH at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Leveraging High-Resolution VLMs and Reasoning LLMs for Multimodal Humor Generation

Arup Baruah

CSE-UOI at SemEval-2026 Task 6: A Two-Stage Heterogeneous Ensemble with Deliberative Complexity Gating for Political Evasion Detection

Christos Tzouvaras, Konstantinos Skianis, Athanasios Voulodimos

Team Vivek Dhayaal at SemEval-2026 Task 13 Subtask B: Multi-Class Authorship Detection

David Rodriguez, Mario Graff

UTD-HLTRI at SemEval 2026 Task 4: Reasoning like an Expert for Inferring Narrative Similarity

Rakshitha Rao Ailneni, Maitry Bhavsar, Sanda Harabagiu

CUET320 at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Few-Shot Large Language Models for Psycholinguistic Marker Extraction and Conspiracy Detection

Faozia Fariha, Lamia Khan, Madiha Ahmed Chowdhury, Kawsar Ahmed, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque

Farhan Nafis Rayhan at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Supervised Contrastive Learning Approach with Gated Multiclass Decomposition Ensemble Architecture for Code Authorship Identification

Farhan Rayhan, Fariska Ruskanda

CophiWue at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Symbolic Narrative Profiling with Taxonomy-Guided Extraction and Contrastive Fine-Tuning

Leonard Konle, Fotis Jannidis

SemEval-2026 Task 4: Narrative Story Similarity and Narrative Representation Learning

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

Habib University at SemEval-2026 Task 3: A Pipeline Approach for Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Muhammad Affan, M Hassan Shahzad, Mikaal Imam, Moiz Zulfiqar, Sandesh Kumar

FunnyBorg at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation

Ștefan Oprea, Lacrimioara Toma Oprea, Maria Paval-Istrate, Diana Trandabat, Daniela Gifu

Team Evaluators at SemEval-2026 Task 6: Instruction-Tuned LLMs for Clarity and Evasion Classification in Political Interviews

Siva Nuthakki, Sanjay Pulagam, Sai Woona

GigitAI at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Hybrid Symbolic-Neural Approach for Syllogistic Validity Classification

Saran Krishnasamy

Truth Gradient at SemEval-2026 Task 10:Conspiracy Belief Detection via Narrative Density and Mean Pooling

Ekansh Goyal

TUCNLP at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Neuro-Symbolic Content Stripping for Debiased Syllogistic Reasoning

Rafael Butas, Alex Lapusan, Camelia Lemnaru, Rodica Potolea

Pinetree at SemEval-2026 Task 7: A Large-Scale Failure Analysis of Cultural Grounding in Language Models

Yen Yee Yam, Hong Meng Yam

Yam at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Failure-Driven Prompt Evolution for Narrative Comparison

Yen Yee Yam, Hong Meng Yam

IIITH Boys at SemEval-2026 Task 4: StoryNet - Understanding Narrative Story Similarity through Symbolic Representations

Amol Vijayachandran, Ananth Rajesh, Siddharth Mago, Maitreya Prafulla Chitale, Aparajitha Allamraju

SyntaxMind at SemEval-2026 Task 6: Exploring Transformers and LLMs for Unmasking Political Question Evasions

Md. Shihab Uddin Riad

UFAL-CUNI at SemEval-2026 Task 11: An Efficient Modular Neuro-symbolic Method for Syllogistic Reasoning

Ivan Kartáč, Kristýna Onderková, Jan Bronec, Zdeněk Kasner, Mateusz Lango

AKCIT at SemEval-2026 Task 13: A Lightweight LightGBM Baseline for Cross-Language Detection of LLM-Generated Code

Rone Brandao Filho, Walcy Santos Rezende Rios, Lucas Neves, Jose Ricardo Fleury Oliveira, Diogo Fernandes

RAGthoven at SemEval-2026 Task 1: A Multi-Stage Pipeline Walks Into a Benchmark and Barely Clears the Bar

Marek Suppa, Viktória Ondrejová, Lucia Ganajová, Gregor Karetka, Daniel Skala

uir-cis at SemEval-2026 Task 12: Mitigating Prior-Induced Hallucinations in Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning via Precision-Oriented Decoding

Chiyao Zhou, Zebing Wang, Kexin Deng, Yaru Zhao, Lin Deng

COGNAC at SemEval-2026 Task 5: LLM Ensembles for Human-Level Word Sense Plausibility Rating in Challenging Narratives

Azwad Anjum Islam, Tisa Islam Erana

NASIMLab at SemEval-2026 Task 9: A Comparative Analysis of Fine-Tuned Small Language Models vs. Generative Large Language Models for Multilingual Polarization Type Detection

Neel Sabhahit, Sanjeevan Selvaganapathy, Mehwish Nasim

REGLAT at SemEval-2026 Task 12: Multi-Strategy Ensemble Reasoning for Event Causality Identification

Mariam Labib, Nsrin Ashraf, Ahmed M. Fetouh, Asad Khalil, Hamada Nayel

ShefFriday at SemEval-2026 Task 9: LLM-Based Annotation Methods for Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarisation

Owen Cook, Meredith Gibbons, Xingyi Song

K-NLPers at SemEval-2026 Task 7: Multiple LLM Agent Debate System for Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures

Jiwoo Song, Sihyeong Yeom, Harksoo Kim

ICI Innolabs at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Sliding Windows Meet Code Transformers

Sebastian Balmus, Bogdan Dura

KCLarity at SemEval-2026 Task 6: Encoder and Zero-Shot Approaches to Political Evasion Detection

Archie Sage, Salvatore Greco

Models Without Borders at SemEval-2026 Task 7: Bridging Cultural Contexts with Search-Grounded QA

Swetha Krishna Sriram, Nirupama Sekar

CredenceAI at SemEval-2026 Task 10: A Span-Consistency Network with Cross-Marker Attention for Conspiracy Marker Extraction

Ishaan Karan

PolarMind at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Leveraging LaBSE with Progressive Curriculum Learning for Multicultural Polarization

Sandeep s, Mothish M, Sachin Sundar

CLRG at SemEval-2026 Task 3: One Size Does Not Fit All: A Resource Adaptive Framework for Dimensional Sentiment Regression

Wardat Iqbal, Ruwad Naswan, Swakkhar Shatabda

RPI Team at SemEval-2026 Task 3: An LLM-Encoder Ensemble for Coarse-to-Fine Valence-Arousal Sentiment Prediction

Mohammed Shahid Modi, Boleslaw Szymanski

ASTraNet at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Not All Code Looks the Same: Multi-View Structural and Semantic Detection of Machine-Generated Code

Ruwad Naswan, Dipit Saha, Md. Kabir, Nabiha Tahseen

UMUSP at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Mitigating Cross-Lingual Interference via Selective Multilingual and Multitask Specialization

Julio Cesar Fuganti, Tulio Ferreira Leite Da Silva, Adelino Gala, Francisco S. Marcondes, José Machado

HHU-SyLo at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Logic in the Loop – Hybridizing LLMs and Theorem Provers for Robust Formal Reasoning

Wiebke Petersen, Cherine Jaziri, Diem Tran

uir-cis-7 at SemEval-2026 Task 7: Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Cross-Cultural Daily Knowledge

Jianning Gao, Xianling Mao, Shumin Shi, Duanzhi Zhaxi, Yingbo Sun

NIT-Agartala-NLP-Team at SemEval-2026 Task 9: A Weighted Soft-Voting Ensemble Framework of Fine-Tuned LLMs for Binary and Multi-Label Polarization Detection

Shivam, Manish Kumar, Anupam Jamatia

CodeDet-NITS at SemEval-2026 Task 13: AI Code Authorship Detection Beyond Truncation

Lekkala Sai Teja, Annepaka Yadagiri, Kshitij Patiyal, Sangam Sai Anish, Partha Pakray

INF-rsrs at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Is the best really better? The limits of creative work in the era of LLMs

Guilherme Bazzo, Eduardo Faé, Júlia Junqueira, Higor Moreira, Lucas Rafael Costella Pessutto

AKCIT-UFG at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Structured Chunking and Optimized Query Reformulation for Efficient Multi-Turn Retrieval

David Ferreira, Wilson Ramos, Priscila Ribeiro, Emanuel Passinato, Diogo Fernandes

uircis at SemEval-2026 Task 8: A Unified Lightweight Pipeline for Multi-Turn RAG Evaluation

Jiaqi Zhang, Wenbin Duan, Yingqi Zhang, Yan Li, Binyang Li

CultRAG at SemEval-2026 Task 7: Hybrid Sparse-Dense Retrieval with Entity-Centric Knowledge Bases for Cultural MCQ Answering

Aditya Singh, Rickarya Das

VerbaNexAI at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Two-Stage Narrative Similarity via Fine-Tuned Bi-Encoder with MLP Ensemble

Pablo Pertuz-Duran, Edwin Puertas, Juan Carlos Martinez Santos, Jairo Serrano

contestant001 at SemEval-2026 Task 13 Stylometric and TF-IDF-Based Detection of Machine-Generated Code

Bora Ozaylar

GheGheGhe at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Decoupling Logic from Belief with Bias-Targeted Fine-Tuning and Neuro-Symbolic Syllogistic Reasoning

Razvan Gogu, Stefan Placintescu, Sofia Vultur

GigitAI at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Hybrid Sparse-Dense Retrieval and Zero-Shot Generation for Multi-Turn Conversational RAG

Saran Krishnasamy, Inez Wihardjo

Tifin India at SemEval-2026 Task 5: Semantic Bridge: Augmented Encoding for Word Sense Plausibility

Pawan Rajpoot

JCT at SemEval-2026 Task 4: A Multi-Method Approach to Narrative Story Similarity

Dvori Rosenfeld, Rinat Walles, Chaya Liebeskind

MINDS at SemEval-2026-Task 13: Robust Detection of Machine-Generated Code under Distribution Shift

Giorgia Rosalia Buccelli, Antonella Coviello, Alexandra Elena Holota, Marco Scaglione, Simone Scalora

BITS Pilani at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Structured Supervised Fine-Tuning with DPO Refinement for Polarization Detection

Atharva Gupta, Dhruv Kumar, Yash Sinha

B&B at SemEval-2026 Task 6: A RoBERTa-based Model with NLI-derived Semantic Features for Clarity-Level Classification of Political Question Evasion

Chi-Bo Lin, Boyang Yu

Archaeology at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Fine-Tuning Pre-Trained Code Models for AI-Generated Code Detection

Jany-Gabriel Ispas, Sergiu Nisioi

Sagarmatha at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Heterogeneous Ensembling and Hierarchical Task Conditioning for Multilingual Latent Distributional Divergence Modeling

Sujal Maharjan, Astha Shrestha, Pratikshya Shrestha

NarSiL at SemEval-2026 Task 4: A Multi-Expert, Multi-Pathway System for Narrative Story Similarity

Bogdan Octavian Grecu, Costin Chiru, Oana Cocarascu

BertKittens at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Multi-Domain Aspect Sentiment with BERT/DeBERTa Ensembles for VA Regression and Aspect–Opinion–VA Triplets

Arseny Sukhodolsky, Ruslan Salimgareev, Tatiana Ianshina

j10official at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Neurosymbolic Humor Generation via GTVH-Guided LLM Decomposition

Jatin Agrawal, Radhika Mamidi

DUTIR at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Narrative Story Similarity and Narrative Representation Learning

Tala Borjigin, Liang Yang

ABARUAH at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Multilingual Polarization Detection across Seven Indic Languages using Qwen3

Arup Baruah

LingoResearchGroup at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Evaluating Prompt Variants for Polarization Detection

Pritam Kadasi, Anuj Tiwari, Mayank Singh

DANGNT@SGU at SemEval-2026 Task 1: A Two-Stage Mistral Generator with DistilBERT Reranking for English Humor Generation

Tan Loc Nguyen, Dang Tuan Nguyen

Team CV at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Prompting LLMs and Benchmarking Embedding Models for Narrative Story Similarity

Chandan Kumar R S, Vinay Ulli

uva-irlab-conv at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Multi-Turn RAG with Learned Sparse Retrieval and Listwise Reranking

Simon Lupart, Kidist Mekonnen, Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Mohammad Aliannejadi

MINDS at SemEval-2026-Task 1: Enhancing Humor Generation through RAG and Synthetic DPO Alignment

Sina Eskandari, Seyed Amirreza Mousavi, Amirreza Rahimi, Mona Pouresmaeil, Marcello Vitaggio

ZYC at SemEval-2026 Task 5: Application of BERT-based Contextual Embeddings Similarity for WSD

Sunny Zhou, Jordan Youner, Dean Cahill

Aatman at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Transfer Learning for Multilingual Polarization Detection

Aatman Vaidya

INFOTEC-NLP at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Comparing Regional Transformers and Bag-of-Words Approaches for Polarization Detection in Spanish

Eduardo C. C. Hernandez-Garcia, Guillermo Ruiz, Mario Graff

DeltaSHAP: a Shapley Value Framework for Interpreting Political Ambiguity

Sven-Alexander Gal, Rodica-Ioana Lung

TFB at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Diagnosing Model Failures in Narrative Understanding

Anna Colli, Benedictus Kent Rachmat, Eve Sauvage, Delphine Battistelli, Thomas Gerald

The Argonauts at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Multilingual Polarization Detection and Classification Using LLM Prompting and Transformer Fine-Tuning

Sha Newaz Mahmud, Sajib Bhattacharjee, Md. Refaj Hossan, Kawsar Ahmed, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque

ssurface3 at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Efficient Methods for Multilingual Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Anatolii Frolov, Elisei Rykov

SYSUpporter at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Leveraging Stylistic Signals and Language-Aware Truncation for Machine-Generated Code Detection

Longfeng Chen, Zheng Xiao

Dawn at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Structured Control Decomposition for Faithful Multi-Turn Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Feiling Li, Xiaoya Qi, Xunyue Wang, Pusheng Chen, Zhiwen Tang

NLP-CIMAT at SemEval-2026 Task 9: LLM-Based One-Shot and Cross-Lingual Data Augmentation for Polarization Detection

Miriam Calderon-Reyes, Fernando Sanchez-Vega, Adrian Pastor Lopez Monroy

PolaFusion at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Ensemble Transformers with Targeted Augmentation for Multilingual Polarization Detection

Abdullah Mohammad

Osint at SemEval-2026 Task 13: A Distribution-Aware Framework for Machine-Generated Code Detection and Multi-Source Authorship Attribution

Shifali Agrahari, Abhishek Anand, Shubham Kannaujiya, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Sujit Kumar

CUETClashing at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Multilingual Joke Generation Under Lexical and Topical Constraints Using Small Instruction-Tuned LLMs

Madiha Ahmed Chowdhury, Lamia Khan, Faozia Fariha, Symom Hossain Shohan, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque

CausalMinds at SemEval-2026 Task 12: Simple Fine-Tuning with Option Shuffling Outperforms Complex Pipelines for Abductive Event Reasoning

Vidur Gupta, Xiaofei Zhao, Jason Shaye

DigiS-FBK at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Multi-task Learning for Multilingual and Cross-cultural Polarization Classification

Veronica Orsanigo, Alan Ramponi, Elisa Leonardelli

Multi-Label Polarization Classification with twHIN-BERT and SCUT Threshold Optimization

Ilinca Vandici, Ådne Jøssing, Lukas Viestädt