SemEval 2026

455 papers

H-RAG at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Hierarchical Parent–Child Retrieval for Multi-Turn RAG Conversations

Passant Elchafei, Hossam Emam, Mohamed Alansary, Monorama Swain, Markus Schedl

CUET-823 at SemEval-2026 Task 9: LoRA-Based Instruction Fine-Tuning of LLMs vs. Transformer Models for Bengali Polarization Detection

Arpita Mallik, Ratnajit Dhar

CSECU-DSG at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Fine-Tuning DeBERTa Transformer Model for Conspiracy Detection

Debashish Chakraborty, Sumaiya Tabassum, Sabrina Ibnath, Abu Nowshed Chy

deepgpt at SemEval-2026 Task 1: A Chinese Humor Generation System via Instruction-Masked QLoRA and Reverse Constraint Data Mixing

城陈

CuriosAI at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Hybrid retrieval system with repeated sampling for generation

Aiswariya Manoj Kumar, Hiroki Takushima, Fumika Beppu, Yuki Shibata, Daichi Yamaga

YNU-ABSA at SemEval-2026 Task 3: A Unified Pipeline for Continuous and Structured Dimensional ABSA

Qimao He, Xiaobing Zhou

CSECU-DSG at SemEval-2026 Task 6: Imbalance-Aware Transformers for Unmasking Political Question Evasions

Subha Shesgin, Sumaiya Nazneen, Abu Nowshed Chy

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

Valentin Istrate, Mocanu Octavian, Tatiana Khaidukova

FactUEP at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Structured Narrative Similarity Scoring with Aspect Decomposition and Weak-Signal Gating

Marcin Sawinski

asetclarity at SemEval-2026 Task 6: An Imbalance-Aware RoBERTa Cross-Encoder for Political Response Clarity Classification

Maria-Antonia-Emanuela Pascu, Dan Dodun-des-Perrieres, Daniela Gifu

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

Soumendra Ray, Garima Gupta

Sabancigroup4 at SemEval-2026 Task 5: Uncertainty-Aware Semantic Plausibility Scoring via GNLL Regression and LLM Rationales

Salih Büyükbaş, Doruk Benli, Osman Kara, Dilara Keküllüoğlu

SteerForce at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Reducing Content Effects Using Layered Activation Steering

Noah Tratzsch, Asmaa Al-Raian, Mounika Marreddy, Alexander Mehler

king001 at SemEval-2026 Task 7: Cross-Language Cultural Everyday Knowledge QA System Based on RAG

Meizhi Jin, Zhichao Meng, Junqi Yin, Lianxin Jiang, Jianyu Li

SSN-CSE-CODECATALYSTS at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Integrating Transformer Semantics and AST-Derived Structural Features for AI-Generated Code Detection.

Bhuvana J, Ramanan Mahendran, Siddharth Chandrasekar S, Pragatheesh J, Rethanya P

TransformerTrio at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Navigating Domain Shift and Representation Instability in Machine-Generated Code Detection

Avi Patel, Manthan Laddha, Pushti Sapovadiya, Pruthwik Mishra, Shrikant Malviya

HABIB_TAZ at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Disentangling Formal Logic from Content via Synthetic Training and Multi-Objective Optimization

Abdullah Shaikh, Zain Naqi, Taha Zahid, Sandesh Kumar, Abdul Samad

VARH-AI at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Exploiting Architectural Diversity with Transformer-SSM Ensembles and Confidence-Based Iterative Refinement for Conspiracy Detection

Hritav Solanki, shubham sharma, Manish Prasad, Rakhi Agrawal, Yashvardhan Sharma

YoungDSMLKZ at SemEval-2026 Task 13: MIL-UniXcoder with Meta-Stacking and Handcrafted Features for AI-Generated Code Detection

Yeraly Gainulla, Agzam Shamsadinov

PEU Lab at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Pairwise Text Comparison using RoBERTa and Ranking Loss

Hangchao Ma, Jiaxu Dao, Jinli Tong, Zhuoying Li, Qingsong Zhou

SlugRAG at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Domain-Specific Fine-Tuning and Model Scaling for Multi-Turn RAG Retrieval

Pratibha Revankar, Jihye Kim, Umit Azirakhmet

LocuPrompt at SemEval-2026 Task 7: A Multilingual Prompting Framework for Cross-Cultural Everyday Knowledge in LLMs

Ningjingke Ning

SG-UniBuc-NLP at SemEval-2026 Task 6: Multi-Head RoBERTa with Chunking for Long-Context Evasion Detection

Gabriel Stefan, Sergiu Nisioi

SemEval-2026 Task 13: Fine-tuned CodeBERT with Stratified Balancing, Dynamic Threshold Optimization, and Logit Bias Correction for Robust Multi-Language AI Code Detection

Udaythalavesh S, Rajalakshmi Sivanaiah, Angel Deborah S

ICT-NLP at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Less Is More — Multilingual Encoder with Joint Training and Adaptive Ensemble for Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Regression

Liyuan Huang, Jiawei He, Wutao Shen, Lin Li, Jin Zhang

YNU-HPCC at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Parallel Generation and Multi-Metric Reranking for Faithful Extractive RAG

Bo Li, You Zhang, Jin Wang, Dan Xu, Xuejie Zhang

Stochastic Gradient Descenders at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Few-Shot LLM Prompting for Polarization Type Classification

Huynh Phu, Dang Thin

NJUSTKMG at SemEval 2026 Task 10 PsyCoMark—Subtask 2:Conspiracy Detection

Yuhan Zheng, Yang Yang

Duluth at SemEval-2026 Task 4: A Hybrid Approach to Narrative Similarity using Bi-Encoder Embeddings with Cross-Encoder Tie breaking using Learned Weights

Maxwell Bevers, Aidan Carlson, Ted Pedersen

YNU-NLP at SemEval-2026 Task 11: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach with Reflexion Mechanism Disentangling Content and Formal Reasoning in Language Models

Yu Wang, You Zhang, Hao Zhang, Dan Xu

kirito at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis via Sentence Structure Parsing Preprocessing and Prompt-Enhanced Instruction Tuning

Shuangjin Hu

KDW at SemEval-2026 Task 12: Logic-Driven Distillation with Knowledge Graphs for Efficient Abductive Reasoning

Sihan Zhu, Hongjie Wu, Xinyan Xu

VerbaNexAI at SemEval-2026 Task 7: Integrating Web Snippets and RAG for the Evaluation of Multilingual Cultural Knowledge in LLMs

Danileth Almanza, Jairo Serrano, Edwin Puertas, Juan Carlos Martinez Santos

BBgame at SemEval-2026 Task 12: Small Lanugage Model Fintuning for Abductive Event Reasoning task

Shu Li, Huizhi(elly) Liang

CUCLASIC at SemEval-2026 Task 5: LLM Prompting Strategies for Rating Ambiguous Word Senses

Federico Ortega Riba, Jasper Wilkerson, Kelsey Lafreniere Adams

PolDeck at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Multilingual Online Polarization Detection via Hybrid Model Ensembling and Data Augmentation

Ben Grandy, Daniel Khir

FLANS at SemEval-2026 Task 7: RAG with Open-Sourced Smaller LLMs for Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures

Liliia Bogdanova, Shiran Sun, Lifeng Han, Natalia Amat-Lefort, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco

Comhis at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Embedding-Space Adaptation and LLM-Assisted Inference for Narrative Similarity

Ke Shu, Eetu Mäkelä, Mikko Tolonen

Lattice at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Why did the prompt engineer break up with their LLM? Because zero-shot was zero-fun.

Mathieu Dehouck, Olga Seminck, Marine Delaborde, Yoann Dupont, Noé Durandard

SMASH at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual Polarisation with Encoder Ensembles and Calibrated Decision Thresholds

Zahra Bokaei, Alessandra Terranova, Yi Zheng, Tom Bidewell, Bjorn Ross

JCT 2026 - SemEval Task 5

Chava Laufer, Batel Turjeman, Chaya Liebeskind

SemEval-2026 Task 12: Knowledge Graph with hyperbolic embedding in Abductive Event Reasoning

Mingkai Wang, Varun Ojha, Huizhi Liang

Gradient Descenders at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Data-Centric Counterfactual Augmentation for Multi-Label Hate Speech Detection

Tran Phuoc Thanh Nhan, Dang Van Thin

Pixel Phantoms at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Language-Specific Transformer Regression for Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Jithu Morrison S, Abisha Rose S

dangphuduy at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Span-based Conspiracy Marker Extraction and Emotion-Aware Detection via Gated Fusion

Phu Duy Dang

BAHAHA at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Benchmarking-Aware Humor Authoring with Hybrid Assessment and Adaptation

Utsav Arora, Andrew Hoblitzell

SwanNLP at SemEval-2026 Task 5: An LLM-based Framework for Plausibility Scoring in Narrative Word Sense Disambiguation

Deshan Sumanathilaka, Nicholas Micallef, Julian Hough, Saman Jayasinghe

AIvengers at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Utilizing Language Specific Encoders for Multilingual Text Classification

Boon Elschenbroich, Lars Britz

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

Zhang Peng, Lu Gehao

UWB at SemEval-2026 Task 5: Synsets and their contexts

Stephen Taylor

YNU-HPCC at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Pretrained DistilBERT Models for Conspiracy Marker Extraction and Detection

Junpei Chen, You Zhang, Jin Wang, Dan Xu, Xuejie Zhang

Humor Generation – Text-based Humor Generation (English)

Hemeshkumar Parthiban, Priyadharsini R

TTLab at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Transformer-based Approaches for Psycholinguistic Conspiracy Detection in Social Media Discourse

Samuel Richter, Mounika Marreddy, Alexander Mehler

ES4MLL at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Set Attention Aggregation and Recurrent Temporal Modeling for Longitudinal Affect Prediction

Andrea Lolli, Chiara Lunazzi, Riccardo Coppola, Flavio Giobergia

Paradise at SemEval-2026 Task 5: On the Limitations of Surface-Level Features for Graded Word Sense Plausibility Prediction

Dhruv Goyal, Ishita Gupta, Jatin Bedi

Paradise at SemEval-2026 Task 12: Leveraging Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models with Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Abductive Event Reasoning

Dhruv Goyal, Ishita Gupta, Jatin Bedi

YNU-HPCC at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Hybrid Augmentation and Regularization Strategies for Multilingual Polarization Type Classification

Di Bao, Jin Wang, Xuejie Zhang

McMaster NLP at SemEval-2026 Task 2: A Lightweight Multi-Feature System for Predicting Emotional Valence and Arousal over Time

Hongyi Zhang, Daniel Hu, Allison Lahnala

Perspicere at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Modeling Longitudinal Valence and Arousal via Dense Embeddings and Agentic Reasoning

Kamyar Moradian Zehab, Mohammad Sadegh Poulaei, Nasser Mozayani

YNU-HPCC at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Constraint-Aware In-Context Learning for Multilingual Humor Generation

Xulong Zhang, Jin Wang, Xuejie Zhang

HCMUSDroneBoys at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Asymmetric Counterfactual Debiasing and Rank-Sensitive Logical Invariance Adaptation for Syllogistic Reasoning

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

Duluth at SemEval-2026 Task 6: DeBERTa with LLM-Augmented Data for Unmasking Political Question Evasions

Shujauddin Syed, Ted Pedersen

PALI at SemEval-2026 Task 3: LoRA Fine-Tuning with Validation for DimABSA

Cheng Chen

VerbaNex AI at SemEval-2026 Task 2: DeBERTa for Longitudinal Valence and Arousal Prediction

Melissa Moreno, Juan Carlos Martinez Santos, Edwin Puertas

lamanhnguyen at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Uncovering Lexical Bias and Momentum Lag in Longitudinal Emotion Prediction using Multi-task DeBERTa

Lam Anh Nguyen

Simorgh at SemEval-2026 task 7: Region-Aware Hybrid Retrieval for Low-Resource Cultural Reasoning in Multilingual Question Answering

Hadi Bayrami Asl Tekanlou, Mahdi Bakhtiyarzadeh, Jafar Razmara

AI4PC-Howard University at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Fine-Tuning DistilBERT, DeBERTa and ModernBERT for Valence–Arousal Prediction and Change Estimation

Araj Shah, Utsav Shah, Saurav Aryal

NLP-FSDM at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Narrative Similarity via Multiple Negatives Ranking and Instruction-Based Embeddings

Abdessamad Benlahbib, Zouhir Essalmani, Achraf Boumhidi, Anass Fahfouh, Hamza Alami

UAlberta at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Temporal Fusion Models for Predicting Affect Over Time

Duc Ho, Khanh Bui, Daniela Teodorescu, Grzegorz Kondrak

DUTH at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Joint Multilingual Fine-Tuning for Online Polarization Detection

Georgios Arampatzis, Avi Arampatzis

DUTH at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Multilingual Transformer Models for Dimensional Stance Prediction Across Tracks

Georgios Arampatzis, Avi Arampatzis

Ambirig at SemEval-2026 Task 5: Distributional Ordinal Modelling for Ambiguous Word Senses in Narrative Contexts

Soumyajit Roy

DUTH at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Prompt-Based Zero-Shot Large Language Models for Constrained Multilingual Humor Generation

Georgios Arampatzis, Avi Arampatzis

DualAxis AI at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Yahya Missaoui, Solomon Kebede, Mounika Marreddy, Alexander Mehler

CUETLuminaries0227 at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Invariance-Oriented Representation Learning for Robust AI-Generated Code Detection

Shiti Chowdhury, Adnan Faisal

lakshadvani at SemEval-2026 Task 11: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Content-Independent Syllogistic Reasoning

Laksh Advani

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

Somdev Ganguli, Vibhan Dutta, Romit Datta, Amit Barman, Sudip Naskar

Momentum at SemEval-2026 Task 2: LongVA-RoBERTa, a transformer-Based Longitudinal Valence and Arousal Modeling

Supriya Nadiger, Sunil Saumya, Rahul Pujari, Veeresh Hiremath, Kiran Chikaraddi

EcoAffectTrack at SemEval-2026 Task 2: A Hierarchical DeBERTa-Transformer Framework with CCC Optimization for Longitudinal Affect Modeling

Diya Satish Kumar, Om Joshi

UKPPsycontrol at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Modeling Valence and Arousal Dynamics from Text

Darya Hryhoryeva, Amaia Zurinaga, Hamidreza Jamalabadi, Iryna Gurevych

Khaleesiyali at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Lexicon-Augmented RoBERTa for Valence–Arousal Regression on Ecological Essays

Eleale Tee

SU NLP 29 at SemEval-2026 Task 5: DynaOrd - Hybrid Dynamic Ordinal Regression with LoRA-Fine-Tuned DeBERTa-v3

Musab Ahmed Khan

dutirshlee at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Symbolic Augmentation for Content-Bias-Resistant Syllogistic Reasoning

Songhuan Li, Liang Yang, Shengdi Yin, Qiang Zhang, Hongfei Lin

AlphaLyrae at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Metric Learning and Asymmetric Loss for Chinese Polarization Analysis

Minh-Hoang Le, Khoan Phung

CuriosAI at SemEval-2026 Task 10:Hybrid approaches to conspiracy span extraction and conspiracy detection

Hiroki Takushima, Fumika Beppu, Aiswariya Manoj Kumar, Yuki Shibata, Takayuki Hori

CUETLuminaries at SemEval-2026 Task 11 Disentangling Logical Validity from Semantic Plausibility through Canonical Abstraction

Adnan Faisal, Shiti Chowdhury

UMUTeam at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Transformer Ensembles for Conspiratorial Span Extraction and Detection

Jorge Gómez-Navalón, Ronghao Pan, Tomás Bernal-beltrán, José Antonio García-Díaz, Rafael Valencia-García

UMUTeam at SemEval-2026 Task 6: Soft-Voting Transformer Ensembles for Detecting and Classifying Response Ambiguity in Political Discourse

Tomás Bernal-beltrán, Ronghao Pan, Jorge Gómez-Navalón, José Antonio García-Díaz, Rafael Valencia-García

Team TüLK at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Humor Generation with Qwen and Group Relative Policy Optimization

Konrad Brüggemann, Luting Hou

Ajman University at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Overcoming Scale Collapse in Temporal Emotion Modeling via Residual Learning

Haseebullah Jumakhan, Soud Assad, Seyed Abdullah, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub

RvH-40 at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Disentangling Reasoning from Belief through Symbolic Abstraction

Niek Biesterbos, Mark Den Ouden, Janiek De Rijke

mdok-style at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Finetuning LLMs for Conspiracy Detection

Dominik Macko

YNU-HPCC at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Narrative Similarity via Multi-Perspective E5-Mistral and Embedding Routing

Feiyang Song, Jin Wang, Xuejie Zhang

CuriosAI at SemEval-2026 Task 4: A Comprehensive Study of Zero-Shot versus Fine-Tuned Approaches for Narrative Similarity

Yuki Shibata, Hiroki Takushima, Fumika Beppu, Aiswariya Manoj Kumar, Daichi Yamaga

NUST CodeIntel at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Cross-Domain Detection of Machine-Generated Code via Stylometric Features and Transformer Models

Azher Ali, Mehwish Fatima

UIT-AMMC at SemEval-2026 Task 13: Exploiting Structural Formatting Signatures for Robust AI-Generated Code Detection

Cuong Pham, Minh Nguyen, Minh Le, An Nguyen, Chinh Nguyen

HCMUS RepeatedGames at SemEval-2026 Task 12: CausalRAG: Synergizing Causal Graph Retrieval and Extended LoRA for Abductive Reasoning

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

CCNU at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Conspiracy Marker Extraction and Detection via Multi-task Learning and LLM-based Data Augmentation

Zijun Wang, Guanyi Chen

The Counterfactuals at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Can Counterfactually-Inspired Preprocessing help Detect Polarization?

Teagan Johnson

NLPGroup8 at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Diverse Ensembles and Hierarchical Transformers for Emotional State Prediction

Troy Arthur, Aidan Kelley, Sierra Reschke