SemEval 2026

455 papers

ttda704 at SemEval-2026 Task 6: Structured Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Political Evasion Detection

Tai Tran Tan, An Dinh

PingAn-NLP at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Multi-Stage Alignment via GRPO and Tiered Ensemble Voting for Multilingual Polarization Detection

Diyang Chen, Youzhen Pang

ttda704 at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Modeling Narrative Structures via Pseudonymization and Multi-View Sentence Alignment

Tai Tran Tan, An Thien

Narrative Nexus at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Modeling Narrative Similarity via Instruction-Based Fine-Tuning and Synthetic Data Augmentation

Haotan Guo, Hongbin Na, Zimu Wang, Wei Wang

clulab-retrieval at SemEval-2026 Task 8: A Comparative Analysis of Dense Retrievers and HyDE for Multi-Turn Conversational Retrieval

Hyungji Kim, Siva Rohit Kondapaneni, Steven Bethard

Sentiment Syndicate at SemEval-2026 Task 6: Reframing Political Question–Answer Interactions via Natural Language Inference for Clarity Level Classification

Rafi Rafsan

NLP-CEIA-UFG at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Iterative Retrieval with Notes-Guided Query Refinement for Multi-Turn RAG

Guilherme Dutra, André Felipe Caraíba, Nádia Félix Da Silva, Paulo Dos Santos, Deborah Silva Fernandes

Cherish at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Enhancing RoBERTa-Based Models for Emotional Valence and Arousal Prediction in Ecological Essays with Personalized PLoRA and Temporal Embeddings

Cetta Parahita

Joshualee2 at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Cross-Lingual Transformer-Based Polarization Detection

Joshua Lee

ServSocIA at Semeval-2026 Task 9: Evaluating Prompt Strategies for Polarization Detection

Jacob Altamirano, Mario Leon Pérez, Bruno Ruiz-Juarez, Luis Chiruzzo, Helena Gómez-adorno

IIMAS-RAG at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Hybrid Sparse-Dense Retrieval and Answerability-Conditioned Generation for Multi-Turn RAG

Vania Raya-Rios, Helena Gómez-adorno, Leon Hecht, Pedro Vázquez-Osorio, Erick Fabián-Sandoval

The Argonauts at SemEval 2026 Task 6: Large Language Models for Response Clarity Classification: Prompting, Fine-Tuning, and Data-Centric Approaches

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

ChulaNLP at SemEval-2026 Task 5: Regression-Calibrated LLM for Word-Sense Scoring

Wayu Limsuwan, Attapol Rutherford

GUNLP at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Psycholinguistic Conspiracy Marker Extraction and Detection (PsyCoMark)

Rojin Ziaei, Mahsa Khoshnoodi, Nazli Goharian

ChulaNLP at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Neural Aspect Composition for Narrative Story Embeddings

James Michael Gampper, Attapol T. Rutherford

UAlberta at SemEval-2026 Task 5: Disambiguating Stories via Task Decomposition

David Basil, Junhyeon Cho, Chirooth Girigowda, Guoqing Luo, Sahir Momin

LATE-IIMAS at Semeval-2026 Task 13: Evaluating GNNs, PLMs, LLMs, and Stylometry for Automatic Code Identification

Andric Valdez, Emmanuel Ancona, Sebastián Bernardino, Helena Gómez-adorno, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi

Team HITS at SemEval-2026 Task 4:Enhancing narrative text embedding model training with hard negatives generation and self-distillation

Qian Zhou, Yi Fan, Wei Liu, Michael Strube

PLlama at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Zero-shot Prompting with Llama-3.2 for Narrative Similarity

Kanishka Jain

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

Samanvitha Bolisetty, Shreya Ashar, Nishchay Mittal, Pruthwik Mishra

UTD-HLTRI at SemEval-2026 Task 7: Bridging Cultural Knowledge Gaps in LLMs via Web-Augmented Context

Mohammad Marufur Rahman, Rakshitha Rao Ailneni, Sanda Harabagiu

The Classics at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Combining Transformer Models and LLM-Generated Annotations for Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Rafif Alshawi, Amit Raj, Aleksey Kudelya, Alexander Shirnin

UPR at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Multi-Label Classification of Polarization Across Social Dimensions and Manifestation Identification in Urdu

Mtayyaba Shahzad, Inzmam Khadam, Zaufishan Mahmood, Junaid Rashid, Shamaila Hayat

UPR at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Polarization Detection in Urdu with Language-Specific Transformer and Data Augmentation

Alishba Wazir, Muhammad Asad Khan, Junaid Rashid, Shamaila Hayat, Samira Kanwal

AI4PC-Howard University at SemEval-2026 Task 12: Evidence-Guided Abductive Scoring with Option-Conditioned Retrieval and Constrained LLM Evaluation

Ifeoluwakiitan Ayandosu, Saurav Aryal

Tübingen-CL at SemEval-2026 Task 12: Reinforcement Learning and Verification for Abductive Reasoning

Bolun Liang, Ayperi Khudaybergenova, Shashikala Kankanamge

FregeLogic at SemEval 2026 Task 11: A Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for Content-Robust Syllogistic Validity Prediction

Adewale Akinfaderin, Nafi Diallo

GenAIus at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Beyond Retrieval with Relevance-Aware RAG for Faithful Multi-Turn Generation

Suveyda Yeniterzi, Reyyan Yeniterzi

Howard University-AI4PC at SemEval-2026 Task 7: Culturally Aware Multilingual Model Routing Through a Mixture-of-Specialists Framework

Isaac Adjei, Saurav Aryal

AI4PC-Howard University at SemEval-2026 Task 5: Calibrated Hybrid Ensembling and Retrieval-Augmented LLM Reasoning for Narrative Word-Sense Plausibility

Kwaku Asare, Saurav Aryal

GUIR at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Training-Free Multi-Query Fusion for Robust Conversational Retrieval

Pasha Abrishamchian, Ophir Frieder, Nazli Goharian

Mendel292 at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Disentangled Narrative Embeddings for Story Similarity

Maurício Gruppi, Sankalpa Rijal, Justin DeBenedetto

sutta at SemEval-2026 Task 12: A Multi-Perspective Retrieve-Verify-Aggregate Framework for Abductive Event Reasoning

Junliu Zou, Liang Yang, Jingjie Zeng

DFKI-MLT at SemEval-2026 TASK 7: Steering Multilingual Models Towards Cultural Knowledge

Yusser Al Ghussin, Daniil Gurgurov, Yasser Hamidullah, Josef van Genabith, Cristina España-Bonet

UNF-BMI at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Research Domain Criteria-Guided Large Language Models for Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Athlene Jones, Vishwaa Shah, Indika Kahanda

Howard University-AI4PC at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Query Reformulation and Dense-Lexical Retrieval Fusion for Multi-Turn Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Sijan Shrestha, Saurav Aryal

Howard University-AI4PC at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Exploring Prompt Strategies for Automatic Humor Generation

Lawal Abdulmujeeb, Saurav Aryal

TeamSLS at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Detecting Machine-Generated Code with CodeBERT and Structural Features

Sai Laasya Gorantla, Shreemithra Naveen, Steven Bethard

SpyComet at SemEval-2026 Task 11: When Adversarial Debiasing Backfires - A Comparison of Data-Level and Model-Level Debiasing

Sai Aravind C, Sunil Saumya, C Pothan Reddy

AI4PC-Howard University at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Evaluating Teacher-Student Weak Supervision and Direct LLM Prompting for Multilingual Political Polarization Detection

Surangana Aryal, Saurav Aryal

AbstractReasoner at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Reducing Content Effects via Knowledge Distillation and Structured Reasoning Prompts

Akash Chowdhury, Vlad Pavlovich, Julius Dunfoy, Sophia Yang, Abhiram Borra

GuysLLM at SemEval-2026 Task 5: NLI-Informed Regression for Graded Word-Sense Plausibility in Narrative Contexts

Niccoló Antonelli-Dziri, Sixtine Marcotte, Emanuele Rosapepe, Gabriele Santona, Omar Wafaay

MINDS at SemEval-2026 Task 9: A Multi-Paradigm Approach to Cross-Lingual Polarization Detection

Angelo Iannielli, Samuele Maroli, Marco Roberto, Stefano Sammartino, Valentino Vacirca

MIUN BiasPatrol at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Why TF-IDF can Beat Transformers for OOD Code Detection

Loviza Sahlen, Thomas Springfeldt, Mehwish Fatima, Raja Khurram Shahzad

UCSC-NLP at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Multi-View Generalization and Diagnostic Analysis of Machine-Generated Code Detection

Kargi Chauhan, Sadiba Nusrat

CICL26 at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Narrative Story Similarity and Narrative Representation Learning

Wanzhao Zhang, Yue Yu

Polito Team at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Scaling Multi-Turn RAG: High-Performance Parallelized Pipeline for the MTRAG Benchmark

Murat Çelik, Nejla Dinçer, Can Ersoy, Mert Toprak, Barış Ünal

GIL-Zaragoza at SemEval 2026 Task 11: Comparing Classification, Autoformalization, and Ontologies for Formal Reasoning Capabilities

Francisco López-Ponce, Lucía Pitarch, Iván Saavedra Martínez, Ignacio Huitzil, Sergio Ojeda Trueba

LATE-iimas at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Conspiracy Detection via DeBERTa-v3 Ensemble and Weighted Loss Optimization

Jose Vazquez-Cerrillo, Helena Gómez-adorno, Gemma Bel-Enguix

blue at SemEval-2026 Task 5: NarrBERT : Narrative-Aware BERT for Word Sense Disambiguation

Rhea Singhal, Krish Sharma, Lakksh Sharma, Jatin Bedi

blue at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Synergizing Long-Context Reranking with Semantic Similarity for Narrative Alignment

Krish Sharma, Lakksh Sharma, Rhea Singhal, Jatin Bedi

MALTO at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Detecting Human, AI, and Hybrid Code via Hard Negative Mining and Curriculum-Driven Ensembles

Hüseyin Arda Arslan, Evren Ayberk Munis, Timofei Khudonogov, Mert Akgün, Murat Beşli

yasaminal at Semeval2026: Constraint-Aware Humor Generation with Knowledge Graph Guidance

Yasamin Aali

Team JAT at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Enhancing Polarization Detection with Cross-Lingual Transfer and Feature Fusion

Aleksandra Matkowska, Taya Lin, Yu-Chun Chao

Seals-NLP at SemEval-2026 Task 9: A Comparative Study of Transformer Architectures for Polarization Detection

Minh Smith, Cheryl Seals

UFG-Semantic at SemEval-2026 Task 6: CLARITY - Unmasking Political Question Evasions

Aline Hamano, Beatriz Felicio, Henrique Galvão, Nádia Da Silva

Spinfo Cologne at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Explainable Creation of Narrativity Embeddings

Janis Pagel, Nils Reiter

WWTC@UniA at SemEval-2026 Task 13: BERT-based Code Authorship Detection and Qualitative Analysis

Linda Kupfer, Lisa Hader, Christian Jaumann, Annemarie Friedrich

IReL_IIT(BHU) at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization

Soumadip Majumder, Arjun Mukherjee, Krishna Tewari, Sanjaya Lenka, Sukomal Pal

Lacuna Inc. at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Structurally Gated State-Space Models for Disentangling Narrative Similarity

Aleksey Kudelya, Rafif Alshawi, Alexander Shirnin

abateam at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Plan2joke – Humor Policies for Type-Specific Two-Pass Humor Generation

Andrii Dikhtiar, Antonii Viter, Bohdan Karaziia, Daryna Dementieva, Alexander Fraser

MindFlayer at SemEval-2026 Task 13:LACR-ENS: Calibration-Aware Ensemble Routing for Cross-Language AI-Generated Code Detection

Jerin Romijah Tuli, Talukder Naemul Hasan Naem, Md. Sartaj Alam Pritom

MindFlayer at SemEval-2026 Task 8:DUALRAG:Answerability-Aware Generation for Multi-Turn RAG Conversations

Jerin Romijah Tuli, Md. Sartaj Alam Pritom, Talukder Naemul Hasan Naem

Rating Plausibility of Word Senses in Ambiguous Sentences Using Multi-Architecture Analysis

Naina Jain, Nidhi Arora, Pal Thakkar, Siba Sahu

L52+-IIMAS-UNAM at SemEval-2026 Task 1 (MWAHAHA): Joke Selection Through a Multi-Stage Prompt-Engineering and Heuristic Pipeline

Adolfo Tonatihu Camacho Gonzalez, Ximena Cruz, Natalia Godínez-Aldana, Lizeth Palacios-Patiño, Ramón Rangel

COGNAC at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Evaluating Narrative Components with LLMs for Hard Story Similarity Cases

Tisa Islam Erana, Azwad Anjum Islam, Anshu Sharma, Mark Finlayson

X-NLP at SemEval-2026 Task 12: Prompting LLMs for Abductive Event Reasoning

Caelen Mattie, Patrick Bowen, Milton King

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

Dawid Siera, Anatol Kaczmarek, Wiktor Kamzela, Adam Dobosz, Jakub Dutkiewicz

OseiBrefo-Liang at SemEval-2026 Task 12: Hybrid Causal Knowledge Graphs and Neural-Symbolic Policy Optimisation for Abductive Event Reasoning

Emmanuel Osei-Brefo, Huizhi(elly) Liang

Aaron at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Multilingual Polarization Detection using Transformer-Based Models with Class Weighting and Threshold Tuning

Aaron Anampiu

SEF-CLGC at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Logical Notation Impact on Language Model Performance

Hanna Abi Akl, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, Pierre Monnin

SemTechLab at SemEval-2026 Task 5: Context-Aware Homonym Disambiguation via Span-Specific Interaction Features

Karlo Babić, Ana Meštrović, Slobodan Beliga

harapalb at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Multi-Signal Neuro-Symbolic Ensembles for Narrative Similarity

Andrei Tiberiu Carp

Bitzkrieg at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Calibration-Aware Dual CodeBERT for Multilingual Machine-Generated Code Detection

Thenmozhi D., Adithya S, Harshil Malisetty, Aadit P, Rohan R

hdharpure at SemEval-2026 Task 3: BERT-Based Modeling and Prediction Behavior Analysis for Multilingual Valence–Arousal Scoring

Harshal Dharpure, Nicolay Rusnachenko

Rasende Rakete at SemEval-2026 Task 6: LLM-First Approach with Iterative Prompt Repair for Classifying Evasion in Political Interviews

Omar Elbeltagui, Nils Knittel, Leonie Süß, Umut Yıldırır, Qiyan Zhai

PolAR Bears at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning and Cross-Lingual Augmentation for Multilingual Polarization Detection

Vinay Ulli, Jyoti Kumari

HUS@NLP-VNU at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dual-Stream Syntax-Aware Modeling and Direct Preference Optimization for Dimensional ABSA

An Cao, Lam Hoang, Le Ngoc Toan, Ha Linh

LIAAD INESCTEC at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Unsupervised Narrative Similarity via Discourse Representation Structures and Sentence Embeddings

Evelin Amorim, Alipio Jorge, Purificação Silvano

Thiyaga6851 at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Disentangling Content and Formal Reasoning in Large Language Models using Neuro-Symbolic Mapping

Thiyagarajaa Pk, Thenmozhi D.

FMISUYotkovaKastreva at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Lightweight Detection of LLM-Generated Code via Stylometric Signals

Elitsa Yotkova, Violeta Kastreva, Dimitar Dimitrov, Ivan Koychev, Preslav Nakov

CUNI at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Multi-Head Narrative Aspect Disentanglement via Entangled Synthetic Dataset

Jan Mitka, Jindřich Helcl

TeamLasse at SemEval-2026 Task 3: A Hybrid Generative-Discriminative Framework for Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Lasse Strothe

Team ewelinaksiez at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Reducing Content Bias in Syllogistic Reasoning via Semantic Abstraction

Ewelina Ksiezniak

AI-Monitors at SemEval-2026 Task 4: A Hybrid Embedding and LLM Ensemble for Narrative Similarity

Vishnu Tripathi, Prakhar Joshi, Azad Singh, Pragyanand Saho, Gaurav Kumar

Ellat at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Comparing Encoder and Decoder Models for Syllogistic Reasoning

Farzaneh Bayan Memar, Hanneke Huls, Matthijs Ten Hove

Team Habib Disambiguators at SemEval-2026 Task 5: Assessing Semantic Plausibility using Regularized Transformer Fine-Tuning

Ahsan Siddiqui, Zohaib Aslam, Ayesha Enayet

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

Tanisha Sriram, Sathvika Shankar, Sowmya Anand, Rajalakshmi Sivanaiah, Angel Deborah S

TechSSN at SemEval-2026 Task 8: MTRAG Retrieval and Generation using Ensemble Re-encoders and Anchor Prompting

Anne Jacika J, Anishka K, Guruprakash K, Rajalakshmi Sivanaiah, Angel Deborah S

Segmentation Fault at SemEval-2026 Task 13: A Regularization-First Approach with Generator-Based Out-of-Distribution Splits for Detecting AI-Generated Code

Lakshmi Priya Swaminatha Rao, Dhannya Santhakumari Madhavan, Sreya Kodeswaran, Nithila R, Kanmani R

Team Duo at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Fine-tuning CodeBERT for Out-of-Distribution AI-Generated Code Detection

Subhiksha G, Sanjai M, Rajalakshmi Sivanaiah, Angel Deborah S

MedHastra at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Stylometric Ensembles and Transformer Fine-Tuning for Robust AI Code Detection, Attribution, and Adversarial Analysis

Shruti Chandrasekar, Vedajanaani R S, Vijayalakshmi P

Team Yuvan at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Task-Adaptive Ensemble Strategies for AI-Generated Code Detection

Yuvan Ramesh, Tongtong Wu

transformer_1376 at SemEval-2026 Task 9: A Multi-Stage Pipeline with Calibrated Ensembles and Lexical Post-Processing for Online Polarization Detection in Bengali

Shuvodwip Saha, Pritha Saha

Clutch or Cry at SemEval-2026 Task 12: Offline Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Frozen DeBERTa for Abductive Event Reasoning

Aayush Prasad, Rudra Trivedi, Arshad Khatib, Shrikant Malviya, Naveen Kumar

Taien at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Multilingual Polarization Detection Using Transformer-based Models

Saida Taien, Palash Hossen

AGAI at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Enhancing Conspiracy Detection via Instruction-tuned LLMs

Xiandong Ran

Team UBSE at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Adapting Generalist Embeddings for Narrative Representations

Marius Marogel, Marius Popescu

schmerle at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Exploring Large Language Model Prompting Strategies for Low-Resource Narrative Similarity Detection

Maximilian Schmerle, Nils Constantin Hellwig

Pixel Phantoms at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Exploring Classical and Neural Approaches for AI-Generated Code Detection

Jithu Morrison S, Janani Hariharakrishnan, Angel Deborah S, Rajalakshmi S