09.07.2026
MCML Junior Member Bolei Ma Earns Best Paper and SAC Highlight Awards at ACL 2026
Bolei Ma Receives Two ACL 2026 Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Large Language Models and Natural Language Processing
MCML Junior Member Bolei Ma received a Best Paper Award at ACL 2026 for "The Imperfective Paradox in LLMs" and an SAC Highlight Award for the survey "Table Question Answering in the Era of Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Tasks, Methods, and Evaluation".
The award-winning papers investigate fundamental challenges in natural language understanding and table question answering. While the Best Paper reveals a systematic bias in how large language models reason about event completion, the SAC Highlight Award recognizes a comprehensive survey that structures the rapidly evolving field of table question answering with LLMs by reviewing tasks, methods, benchmarks, and future research directions.
Congratulations on these outstanding achievements!
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Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2026 for Work on Accent Bias in Audio Language Models
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Best Thesis Award for Sohir Maskey
Former MCML Junior Member Sohir Maskey received the Best Thesis Award of the DFG Priority Programme 2298 for his PhD on graph neural networks.
