01.07.2026
MCML at ACL 2026
38 Accepted Papers (20 Main, 15 Findings, and 3 Workshops)
64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026
We are happy to announce that MCML researchers have contributed a total of 38 papers to ACL 2026: 20 Main, 15 Findings, and 3 Workshop papers. Congrats to our researchers!
Main Track (20 papers)
G. Ahnert • A.-C. Haensch • B. Plank • M. Strohmaier
Survey Response Generation: Generating Closed-Ended Survey Responses In-Silico with Large Language Models.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Survey Response Generation: Generating Closed-Ended Survey Responses In-Silico with Large Language Models.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
V. Blaschke • M. Winkler • B. Plank
Standard-to-Dialect Transfer Trends Differ across Text and Speech: A Case Study on Intent and Topic Classification in German Dialects.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Standard-to-Dialect Transfer Trends Differ across Text and Speech: A Case Study on Intent and Topic Classification in German Dialects.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Y. Ding • M. Li • E. Garces Arias • M. Aßenmacher • C. Heumann • C. Zhang
Min-k Sampling: Decoupling Truncation from Temperature Scaling via Relative Logit Dynamics.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Min-k Sampling: Decoupling Truncation from Temperature Scaling via Relative Logit Dynamics.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Y. Liu • X. Xu • E. Nie • Z. Wang • S. Feng • D. Wang • Q. Li • H. Schütze
Look Within or Look Beyond? A Theoretical Comparison Between Parameter-Efficient and Full Fine-Tuning.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
Look Within or Look Beyond? A Theoretical Comparison Between Parameter-Efficient and Full Fine-Tuning.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
Y. Liu • J. Yu • M. Wang • Y. Zhang • E. Nie • S. Feng • D. Wang • K. Song • H. Schütze
SAD: A Large-Scale Strategic Argumentative Dialogue Dataset.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
SAD: A Large-Scale Strategic Argumentative Dialogue Dataset.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
B. Ma • Y. Miyao
The Imperfective Paradox in Large Language Models.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
The Imperfective Paradox in Large Language Models.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
S. Ostermann • D. Gurgurov • T. Baeumel • M. A. Hedderich • S. Lapuschkin • W. Samek • V. Schmitt
From Weights to Activations: Is Steering the Next Frontier of Adaptation?
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
From Weights to Activations: Is Steering the Next Frontier of Adaptation?
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
A. Sarawgi • E. Garces Arias • C. Zotter
Digitizing Nepal's Written Heritage: A Comprehensive HTR Pipeline for Old Nepali Manuscripts.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Digitizing Nepal's Written Heritage: A Comprehensive HTR Pipeline for Old Nepali Manuscripts.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
M. Štefánik • T. Mickus • M. Kadlčík • B. Højer • M. Spiegel • R. Vázquez • A. Sinha • J. Kuchař • P. Mondorf • P. Stenetorp
Language Models Learn Universal Representations of Numbers and Here's Why You Should Care.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Language Models Learn Universal Representations of Numbers and Here's Why You Should Care.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
L. Veloso • H. Schütze
GKnow: Measuring the Entanglement of Gender Bias and Factual Gender.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
GKnow: Measuring the Entanglement of Gender Bias and Factual Gender.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Q. Wang • V. Bach Nguyen • Y. Liu • F. Splitt • N. Feldhus • C. Seifert • H. Schütze • S. Möller • V. Schmitt
Parallel Universes, Parallel Languages: A Comprehensive Study on LLM-based Multilingual Counterfactual Example Generation.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Parallel Universes, Parallel Languages: A Comprehensive Study on LLM-based Multilingual Counterfactual Example Generation.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
C. Wu • B. Ma • N. Deng • Y. He • Y. Xue • X. Liu
MSMO-ABSA: Multi-Scale and Multi-Objective Optimization for Cross-Lingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
MSMO-ABSA: Multi-Scale and Multi-Objective Optimization for Cross-Lingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
F. Weeber • V. Neplenbroek • J. Batzner • S. Padó
One Persona, Many Cues, Different Results: How Sociodemographic Cues Impact LLM Personalization.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
One Persona, Many Cues, Different Results: How Sociodemographic Cues Impact LLM Personalization.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Z. Wang • X. Xu • Y. Liu • Y. Zhang • P. Lin • S. Feng • X. Yang • D. Wang • H. Schütze
Why Do More Experts Fail? A Theoretical Analysis of Model Merging.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
Why Do More Experts Fail? A Theoretical Analysis of Model Merging.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
H. Yu • T. Xu • M. A. Hedderich • W. Hamidouche • S. W. Zamir • D. I. Adelani
AfriqueLLM: How Data Mixing and Model Architecture Impact Continued Pre-training for African Languages.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI URL
AfriqueLLM: How Data Mixing and Model Architecture Impact Continued Pre-training for African Languages.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI URL
S. Yan • X. Yang • Z. Huang • E. Nie • Z. Ding • Z. Li • X. Ma • J. Bi • K. Kersting • J. Z. Pan • H. Schütze • V. Tresp • Y. Ma
Memory-R1: Enhancing Large Language Model Agents to Manage and Utilize Memories via Reinforcement Learning.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Memory-R1: Enhancing Large Language Model Agents to Manage and Utilize Memories via Reinforcement Learning.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
C. Yuan • Z. Zhang • G. Kasneci
Where Paths Split: Localized, Calibrated Control of Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
Where Paths Split: Localized, Calibrated Control of Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
S. Yang • Z. Zhang • B. Prenkaj • G. Kasneci
SAGE: Sparse Adaptive Guidance for Dependency-Aware Tabular Data Generation.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
SAGE: Sparse Adaptive Guidance for Dependency-Aware Tabular Data Generation.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
R. Zhao • Y. Liu • L. Altinger • H. Schütze • M. A. Hedderich
Evaluating Robustness of Large Language Models Against Multilingual Typographical Errors.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
Evaluating Robustness of Large Language Models Against Multilingual Typographical Errors.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
W. Zhou • B. Ma • A. Friedrich • M. Mesgar
Table Question Answering in the Era of Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Tasks, Methods, and Evaluation.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Table Question Answering in the Era of Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Tasks, Methods, and Evaluation.
ACL 2026 - 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Findings Track (15 papers)
I. Bueno • B. Bühler • P. Stark • T. Fütterer • U. Trautwein • D. Demszky • H. Hill • E. Kasneci
From Scoring to Explanations: Evaluating SHAP and LLM Rationales for Rubric-based Teaching Quality Assessment.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
From Scoring to Explanations: Evaluating SHAP and LLM Rationales for Rubric-based Teaching Quality Assessment.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
B. Chen • T. Hu • C. Zhang • R. Litschko • A. Korhonen • B. Plank
Decoupling the Effect of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: A Human Label Variation Perspective.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Decoupling the Effect of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: A Human Label Variation Perspective.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
C. Chan • Y. Yim • H. Zeng • Z. Zou • X. Cheng • Z. Sun • Z. Deng • K. Chung • Y. Ao • Y. Fan • C. Jiayang • E. Nie • G. Y. Wong • H. Schmid • H. Schütze • S. See • Y. Song
XToM: Exploring the Multilingual Theory of Mind for Large Language Models.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
XToM: Exploring the Multilingual Theory of Mind for Large Language Models.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
X. Dong • C. Wu • Y. Wen • Y. Chen • Y. Xue • J. Zhang • W. Xu • B. Ma
FAITH: Factuality Alignment through Integrating Trustworthiness and Honestness.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. DOI
FAITH: Factuality Alignment through Integrating Trustworthiness and Honestness.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. DOI
P. Hong • B. Chen • S. Peng • M.-C. de Marneffe • B. Roth • B. Plank
Agree, Disagree, Explain: Decomposing Human Label Variation in NLI through the Lens of Explanations.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Agree, Disagree, Explain: Decomposing Human Label Variation in NLI through the Lens of Explanations.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Y. Li • A. Fastowski • E. Zaradoukas • B. Prenkaj • G. Kasneci
Analysing the Safety Pitfalls of Steering Vectors.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
Analysing the Safety Pitfalls of Steering Vectors.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
Y. Liu • R. Zhao • H. Schütze • M. A. Hedderich
Large Reasoning Models Are (Not Yet) Multilingual Latent Reasoners.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Large Reasoning Models Are (Not Yet) Multilingual Latent Reasoners.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
X. Ma • Y. Ma • C. Lin • S. Yan • J. Bi • Z. Cao • Y. Tian • V. Tresp • H. Schütze
Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Systems via Textual Backpropagation.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Systems via Textual Backpropagation.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
B. Ma • Y. Yao • A.-C. Haensch
Capabilities and Evaluation Biases of Large Language Models in Classical Chinese Poetry Generation: A Case Study on Tang Poetry.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Capabilities and Evaluation Biases of Large Language Models in Classical Chinese Poetry Generation: A Case Study on Tang Poetry.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
A. Plum • F. Körner • A.-M. Lutgen • L. Bernardy • F. Philippy • E. Milano • N. Rehlinger • C. Lothritz • T. Ranasinghe • B. Plank • C. Purschke
ltzGLUE: Luxembourgish General Language Understanding Evaluation.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
ltzGLUE: Luxembourgish General Language Understanding Evaluation.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
R. S.-E. Shim • K. Choi • K. Chang • M.-H. Hsu • F. Eichin • Z. Wu • A. Suhr • M. A. Hedderich • D. Harwath • D. R. Mortensen • B. Plank
Linear Script Representations in Speech Foundation Models Enable Zero-Shot Transliteration.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Linear Script Representations in Speech Foundation Models Enable Zero-Shot Transliteration.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Z. Wang • Y. Liu • M. Wang • E. Nie • D. Chen • Z. Zhao • S. Feng • D. Wang • X. Yang • Y. Zhang • H. Schütze
PlaM: Training-Free Plateau-Guided Model Merging for Better Visual Grounding in MLLMs.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
PlaM: Training-Free Plateau-Guided Model Merging for Better Visual Grounding in MLLMs.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
S. Xu • S. T. Y. S. S • B. Plank
From Noise to Signal to Selbstzweck: Reframing Human Label Variation in the Era of Post-training in NLP.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
From Noise to Signal to Selbstzweck: Reframing Human Label Variation in the Era of Post-training in NLP.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
L. Zuo • B. Plank • S. Peng
EVADE: LLM-Based Explanation Generation and Validation for Error Detection in NLI.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
EVADE: LLM-Based Explanation Generation and Validation for Error Detection in NLI.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
C. Zhang • H. Wang • Z. Yu • E. Garces Arias • J. Rodemann • Z. Zhang • Q. Li • G. Fan • K. Muandet • C. Heumann
Self-Reinforcing Controllable Synthesis of Rare Relational Data via Bayesian Calibration.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
Self-Reinforcing Controllable Synthesis of Rare Relational Data via Bayesian Calibration.
Findings @ACL 2026 - Findings at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
Workshops (3 papers)
I. Bueno • L. Hirlimann • E. Kasneci
MemeScouts@LT-EDI 2026: Asking the Right Questions -- Prompted Weak Supervision for Meme Hate Speech Detection.
LT-EDI @ACL 2026 - 6th Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
MemeScouts@LT-EDI 2026: Asking the Right Questions -- Prompted Weak Supervision for Meme Hate Speech Detection.
LT-EDI @ACL 2026 - 6th Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
A. Dikhtiar • A. Viter • B. Karaziia • D. Dementieva • A. Fraser
aba_team at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Plan2joke – Humor Policies for Type-Specific Two-Pass Humor Generation.
SemEval @ACL 2026 - 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
aba_team at SemEval-2026 Task 1: Plan2joke – Humor Policies for Type-Specific Two-Pass Humor Generation.
SemEval @ACL 2026 - 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI GitHub
Q. Wang • M. Wang • N. Feldhus • S. Ostermann • Y. Cao • H. Schütze • S. Möller • V. Schmitt
Through a Compressed Lens: Investigating the Impact of Quantization on LLM Explainability and Interpretability.
TrustNLP @ACL 2026 - 6th Workshop on Trustworthy NLP at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
Through a Compressed Lens: Investigating the Impact of Quantization on LLM Explainability and Interpretability.
TrustNLP @ACL 2026 - 6th Workshop on Trustworthy NLP at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. San Diego, CA, USA, Jul 02-07, 2026. DOI
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