EMNLP2026

Our department will not only present 8 papers at this year's EMNLP2026 Main Conference and Findings, but will also present accepted work at TACL and various workshops.  Explore the impressive collection of contributions:

Main Confrence

• ALEE: Any-Language Evaluation of Embeddings via English-Centric Minimal Pairs. 
  Andrianos Michail, Stylianos Psychias, Michelle Wastl, Simon Clematide, Rico Sennrich, Juri Opitz
  Preprint
• Scaling Unsupervised Word Alignment to Documents with Structural Constraints. 
  Michelle Wastl, Jannis Vamvas, Rico Sennrich
  Preprint
• Language Identification for Non-Standard Varieties: Language Varieties as Geolects on a Geodesic Grid. 
  Sina Ahmadi, Rico Sennrich
• Estimating Surprisal from the Speech Signal. 
  Zachary Hopton, Samuel Kiegeland, Francesco Ignazio Re, Patrick Haller, Matthew B. Winn, Ryan Cotterell, Eleanor Chodroff
• Revisiting the Estimation of Unigram Surprisal in Computational Psycholinguistics. 
  Zachary Hopton, Francesco Ignazio Re, Samuel Kiegeland, Andreas Opedal, Eleanor Chodroff, Ryan Cotterell 

Findings

• Translation Asymmetry in LLMs as a Data Augmentation Factor: A Case Study for 6 Romansh Language Varieties. 
  Jannis Vamvas, Ignacio Pérez Prat, Angela Heldstab, Dominic P. Fischer, Sina Ahmadi, Rico Sennrich
  Preprint
• Reinforcement Learning Elicits Contextual Learning of Unseen Language Translation. 
  Hanxu Hu, Zdenek Snajdr, Pinzhen Chen, Jannis Vamvas, Rico Sennrich
  Preprint
• Encoders Strike Back: Why and How a Strong Discriminative Baseline Outperforms LLMs in Argument Mining Across Three Heterogeneous Datasets. 
  Rania Rezkellah,  Reto Gubelmann

TACL

• Hearing to Translate: The Effectiveness of Speech Modality Integration into LLMs. 
  Sara Papi, Javier Garcia Gilabert, Zachary Hopton, Vilém Zouhar, Carlos Escolano, Gerard I. Gallego, Jorge Iranzo-Sanchez, Ahrii Kim, Dominik Machacek, Patricia Schmidtova, Maike Züfle
  Publication

Workshops

• Exploring Dowker Homology for Sentence Similarity.
  Marius Huber, Juri Opitz
  Preprint
• Findings of the WMT26 Terminology Translation Task: The Hard Part is Finding the Terms, Not Using Them.
  Adrian Charkiewicz, Pinzhen Chen, Thierry Etchegoyhen, Harritxu Gete, Kamil Guttmann, Xu Huang, David Ponce, Artur Nowakowski, Frédéric Odermatt Arturo Oncevay, Dawei Zhu, Vilém Zouhar, Kirill Semenov
• Isolated Sign Language Recognition for Icelandic Sign Language: Experiments in a Low-resource Setting. 
  Finnur Ágúst Ingimundarson, Guðný Björk Þorvaldsdóttir, Mathias Müller, Sarah Ebling
  Preprint