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MCML at EACL 2026

13 Accepted Papers (9 Main, and 4 Findings)

19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Rabat, Morocco, Mar 24-29, 2026

We are happy to announce that MCML researchers have contributed a total of 13 papers to EACL 2026: 9 Main, and 4 Finding papers. Congrats to our researchers!

Main Track (9 papers)

S. BallF. Kreuter • N. Panickssery
Understanding Jailbreak Success: A Study of Latent Space Dynamics in Large Language Models.
EACL 2026 - 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Rabat, Morocco, Mar 24-29, 2026. DOI

P. H. L. de Araujo • M. A. HedderichA. ModarressiH. Schütze • B. Roth
Persistent Personas? Role-Playing, Instruction Following, and Safety in Extended Interactions.
EACL 2026 - 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Rabat, Morocco, Mar 24-29, 2026. DOI

A. Karamolegkou • A. Borah • E. Cho • S. R. Choudhury • M. Galletti • P. Gupta • O. Ignat • P. Kargupta • N. Kotonya • H. Lamba • S.-J. Lee • A. Mangla • I. Mondal • F. Z. Moudakir • D. Nazar • P. Nemkova • D. Pisarevskaya • N. Rizwan • N. Sabri • K. Samway • D. Stammbach • A. Steinberg Schulten • D. Tomás • S. R. Wilson • B. Yi • J. H. Zhu • A. Zubiaga • A. Søgaard • A. Fraser • Z. Jin • R. Mihalcea • J. R. Tetreault • D. Dementieva
NLP for Social Good: A Survey and Outlook of Challenges, Opportunities and Responsible Deployment.
EACL 2026 - 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Rabat, Morocco, Mar 24-29, 2026. DOI

F. Körner • M. Müller-Eberstein • A. Korhonen • B. Plank
When Meanings Meet: Investigating the Emergence and Quality of Shared Concept Spaces during Multilingual Language Model Training.
EACL 2026 - 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Rabat, Morocco, Mar 24-29, 2026. DOI

B. Ma • Y. Cao • I. Sen • A.-C. HaenschF. KreuterB. Plank • D. Hershcovich
Too Open for Opinion? Embracing Open-Endedness in Large Language Models for Social Simulation.
EACL 2026 - 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Rabat, Morocco, Mar 24-29, 2026. DOI

J. Orth • P. MondorfB. Plank
If Probable, Then Acceptable? Understanding Conditional Acceptability Judgments in Large Language Models.
EACL 2026 - 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Rabat, Morocco, Mar 24-29, 2026. DOI

S. Okabe • D. Zelo • A. Fraser
Optical Character Recognition for the International Phonetic Alphabet.
EACL 2026 - 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Rabat, Morocco, Mar 24-29, 2026. DOI

A. Säuberli • D. Jepifanova • D. Frassinelli • B. Plank
Controlling Reading Ease with Gaze-Guided Text Generation.
EACL 2026 - 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Rabat, Morocco, Mar 24-29, 2026. DOI

T. Zehle • T. HeißM. SchlagerM. Aßenmacher • M. Feurer
promptolution: A Unified, Modular Framework for Prompt Optimization.
EACL 2026 - 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Rabat, Morocco, Mar 24-29, 2026. DOI

Findings Track (4 papers)

L. Christ • S. Amiriparian
Training-Free Text Emotion Tagging via LLM-Based Best-Worst Scaling.
Findings @EACL 2026 - Findings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Rabat, Morocco, Mar 24-29, 2026. DOI

Y. Liu • Y. MaY. LuS. Chen • Z. Ding • V. Tresp
Parameter-Efficient Routed Fine-Tuning: Mixture-of-Experts Demands Mixture of Adaptation Modules.
Findings @EACL 2026 - Findings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Rabat, Morocco, Mar 24-29, 2026. DOI

T. Zehle • M. Aßenmacher
Can Calibration of Positional Encodings Enhance Long Context Utilization?
Findings @EACL 2026 - Findings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Rabat, Morocco, Mar 24-29, 2026. DOI

R. ZhaoY. LiuH. SchützeM. A. Hedderich
A Comprehensive Evaluation of Multilingual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Performance, Consistency, and Faithfulness Across Languages.
Findings @EACL 2026 - Findings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Rabat, Morocco, Mar 24-29, 2026. DOI

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