📰 ACL 2026 — accepted papers

ACL 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in San Diego, California, United States, July 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 2,650 papers of it in 6 tracks; our library holds 23 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

Tracks

Long Papers2,222Industry Track154Student Research Workshop109System Demonstrations85Short Papers74Tutorial Abstracts6

Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. Beyond the Final Actor: Modeling the Dual Roles of Creator and Editor for Fine-Grained LLM-Generated Text DetectionYang Li, Qiang Sheng, Zhengjia Wang et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper2 citations
2. VeriTaS: The First Dynamic Benchmark for Multimodal Automated Fact-CheckingMark Rothermel, Marcus Kornmann, Marcus Rohrbach et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Best Resource Paper2 citations
3. CAR-bench: Evaluating the Consistency and Limit-Awareness of LLM Agents under Real-World UncertaintyJohannes Kirmayr, Lukas Stappen, Elisabeth Andre · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper1 citation
4. The olmOCR Project: Building Fully Open OCR using VLMsJake Poznanski, Kyle Lo, Luca Soldaini · System Demonstrations · 🏆 Best Demonstration Paper1 citation
5. Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African LanguagesAtnafu Lambebo Tonja, Srija Anand, Emilio Villa-Cueva et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Best Social Impact Paper
6. Audio MultiChallenge: A Multi-Turn Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems on Natural Human InteractionAdvait Gosai, Tyler Vuong, Utkarsh Tyagi et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Best Resource Paper
7. BanglaSocialBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Sociopragmatic and Cultural Alignment of LLMs in Bangladeshi Social InteractionTanvir Ahmed Sijan, S. M. Golam Rifat, Pankaj Partha et al. · Student Research Workshop · 🏆 SRW Best Paper Award
8. CIG: Measuring Conversational Information Gain in Deliberative Dialogues with Semantic Memory DynamicsMing-Bin Chen, Jey Han Lau, Lea Frermann · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
9. CURE: Critique-Driven Unified Reinforcement Learning for Test-Time Self-ImprovementGuirong Chen, Shuqi Ye, Wenkai Yang et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
10. Characterizing the Expressivity of Local Attention in TransformersJiaoda Li, Ryan Cotterell · Long Papers · 🏆 Best Paper
11. CoSToM: Causal-oriented Steering for Intrinsic Theory-of-Mind Alignment in Large Language ModelsMengfan Li, Xuanhua Shi, Yang Deng · Long Papers · 🏆 Best Theme Paper
12. CxMP: A Linguistic Minimal-Pair Benchmark for Evaluating Constructional Understanding in Language ModelsMiyu Oba, Saku Sugawara · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
13. DIA-HARM: Dialectal Disparities in Harmful Content Detection Across 50 English DialectsJason S Lucas, Matt Murtagh White, Ali Al-Lawati et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Best Social Impact Paper
14. Evaluation of Multilingual Ability to Use Spatial Deictic Expressions in Vision-Language ModelsKaito Watanabe, Taisei Yamamoto, Tomoki Doi et al. · Student Research Workshop · 🏆 SRW Best Paper Award
15. Evolutionary Guided Decoding: Iterative Value Refinement for LLMsZhenhua Liu, Lijun Li, Ruizhe Chen et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
16. From Local to Global: Revisiting Structured Pruning Paradigms for Large Language ModelsZiyan Wang, Enmao Diao, Qi Le et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
17. GeoRA: Geometry-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation for RLVRJiaying Zhang, Lei Shi, Jiguo Li et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
18. HSCodeComp: A Realistic and Expert-level Agent Benchmark for Hierarchical Rule ApplicationTian Lan, Yiqian Yang, Qianghuai Jia et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Best Resource Paper
19. Hierarchical Acoustic-Semantic Modeling: Modality Separation and Semantic Coherence for Full-Duplex SLMsZhenyu Liu, Xuanyu Zhang, Yunxin Li et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
20. ImplicitMemBench: Measuring Unconscious Behavioral Adaptation in Large Language ModelsChonghan Qin, Xiachong Feng, Weitao Ma et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Best Resource Paper
21. Lying with Truths: Open-Channel Multi-Agent Collusion for Belief Manipulation via Generative MontageJinwei Hu, Xinmiao Huang, Youcheng Sun et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
22. Mapping the Circumplex of Affect: Geometric Analysis of Emotion Representations via Hyperspherical Contrastive LearningYusuke Yamauchi, Akiko Aizawa · Long Papers · 🏆 Best Theme Paper
23. Massively Multilingual Joint Segmentation and GlossingMichael Ginn, Lindia Tjuatja, Enora Rice et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
24. MauBERT: Universal Phonetic Inductive Biases for Few-Shot Acoustic Units DiscoveryAngelo Ortiz Tandazo, Manel Khentout, Youssef Benchekroun et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
25. Maximizing Local Entropy Where It Matters: Prefix-Aware Localized LLM UnlearningNaixin Zhai, Pengyang Shao, Binbin Zheng et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
26. MediEval: A Unified Medical Benchmark for Patient-Contextual and Knowledge-Grounded Reasoning in LLMsZhan Qu, Michael Färber · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
27. Memory efficiency and resource-rational encoding in sentence processingWeijie Xu, Brian Dillon, Richard Futrell · Long Papers · 🏆 Best Paper
28. Mind the (DH) Gap! A Contrast in Risky Choices Between Reasoning and Conversational LLMsLuise Ge, Yongyan Zhang, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
29. Rethinking Entropy Interventions in RLVR: An Entropy Change PerspectiveZhezheng Hao, Hong Wang, Haoyang Liu et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
30. Systematicity between Forms and Meanings across Languages Supports Efficient CommunicationDoreen Osmelak, Yang Xu, Michael Hahn et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
31. The Imperfective Paradox in Large Language ModelsBolei Ma, Yusuke Miyao · Long Papers · 🏆 Best Paper
32. ViLL-E: Video LLM Embeddings for RetrievalRohit Gupta, Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan, Fan Fei et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
33. Your Students Don't Use LLMs Like You Wish They DidSebastian Kobler, Matthew Clemson, Angela Sun et al. · Long Papers · 🏆 Best Social Impact Paper

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. Bridging Language and Items for Retrieval and Recommendation: Benchmarking LLMs as Semantic EncodersYupeng Hou, Jiacheng Li, Xiangjun Fu et al. · Long Papers52 citations
2. Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language EnvironmentsAlejandro Hernández-Cano, Alexander Hägele, Allen Hao Huang et al. · Long Papers16 citations · our summary
3. Memory-R1: Enhancing Large Language Model Agents to Manage and Utilize Memories via Reinforcement LearningSikuan Yan, Xiufeng Yang, Zuchao Huang et al. · Long Papers8 citations
4. MinerU2.5: A Decoupled Vision-Language Model for Efficient High-Resolution Document ParsingJunbo Niu, Zheng Liu, Zhuangcheng Gu et al. · Industry Track8 citations
5. Claim Verification in the Age of Large Language Models: A SurveyAlphaeus Dmonte, Roland R Oruche, Marcos Zampieri et al. · Student Research Workshop7 citations
6. LLaDA 1.5: Variance-Reduced Preference Optimization for Large Language Diffusion ModelsFengqi Zhu, Rongzhen Wang, Shen Nie et al. · Long Papers7 citations
7. Understanding and Mitigating Bias Inheritance in LLM-based Data Augmentation on Downstream TasksMiaomiao Li, Hao Chen, Yang Wang et al. · Long Papers7 citations
8. AutoSchemaKG: Autonomous Knowledge Graph Construction through Dynamic Schema Induction from Web-Scale CorporaJiaxin Bai, Wei Fan, Qi Hu et al. · Long Papers6 citations
9. CodeJudgeBench: Benchmarking LLM-as-a-Judge for Coding TasksHongchao Jiang, Yiming Chen, Yushi Cao et al. · Long Papers6 citations
10. AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosedJenna Russell, Marzena Karpinska, Destiny Akinode et al. · Long Papers5 citations

All accepted papers (2,650)

The most cited first; 23 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Bridging Language and Items for Retrieval and Recommendation: Benchmarking LLMs as Semantic EncodersYupeng Hou, Jiacheng Li, Xiangjun Fu et al. · Long Papers52 citations
2. Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language EnvironmentsAlejandro Hernández-Cano, Alexander Hägele, Allen Hao Huang et al. · Long Papers16 citations · our summary
3. Memory-R1: Enhancing Large Language Model Agents to Manage and Utilize Memories via Reinforcement LearningSikuan Yan, Xiufeng Yang, Zuchao Huang et al. · Long Papers8 citations
4. MinerU2.5: A Decoupled Vision-Language Model for Efficient High-Resolution Document ParsingJunbo Niu, Zheng Liu, Zhuangcheng Gu et al. · Industry Track8 citations
5. Claim Verification in the Age of Large Language Models: A SurveyAlphaeus Dmonte, Roland R Oruche, Marcos Zampieri et al. · Student Research Workshop7 citations
6. LLaDA 1.5: Variance-Reduced Preference Optimization for Large Language Diffusion ModelsFengqi Zhu, Rongzhen Wang, Shen Nie et al. · Long Papers7 citations
7. Understanding and Mitigating Bias Inheritance in LLM-based Data Augmentation on Downstream TasksMiaomiao Li, Hao Chen, Yang Wang et al. · Long Papers7 citations
8. AutoSchemaKG: Autonomous Knowledge Graph Construction through Dynamic Schema Induction from Web-Scale CorporaJiaxin Bai, Wei Fan, Qi Hu et al. · Long Papers6 citations
9. CodeJudgeBench: Benchmarking LLM-as-a-Judge for Coding TasksHongchao Jiang, Yiming Chen, Yushi Cao et al. · Long Papers6 citations
10. AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosedJenna Russell, Marzena Karpinska, Destiny Akinode et al. · Long Papers5 citations
11. Formally Specifying the Intended Behavior of the Program: LLM-Driven Neuro-Symbolic Program Specification SynthesisCheng Wen, Hu Junjie, YiKun Hu et al. · System Demonstrations5 citations
12. HERMES: KV Cache as Hierarchical Memory for Efficient Streaming Video UnderstandingHaowei Zhang, Shudong Yang, Jinlan Fu et al. · Long Papers5 citations
13. MulVul: Retrieval-augmented Multi-Agent Code Vulnerability Detection via Cross-Model Prompt EvolutionZihan Wu, Jie Xu, Yun Peng et al. · Long Papers5 citations
14. OctoTools: A Multi-Agent Framework with Extensible Tools for Complex ReasoningPan Lu, Bowen Chen, Sheng Liu et al. · Long Papers5 citations
15. End-to-End Optimization of LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Search Systems via Heterogeneous-Group-Based Reinforcement LearningGuanzhong Chen, Shaoxiong Yang, Chao Li et al. · Long Papers4 citations
16. GenDis: Generative-Discriminative Dual-View Co-Training for Generalized Category DiscoveryXi Chen, Chuan Qin, Jinpeng Li et al. · Long Papers4 citations
17. Paramanu: Compact and Competitive Monolingual Language Models for Low-Resource Morphologically Rich Indian LanguagesMitodru Niyogi, Eric Gaussier, Arnab Bhattacharya · Long Papers4 citations
18. ProgressLM: Towards Progress Reasoning in Vision-Language ModelsJianshu Zhang, Chengxuan Qian, Haosen Sun et al. · Long Papers4 citations
19. TLSA: LLM-Guided Text-Label Space Alignment with Contrastive Learning for Generalized Category DiscoveryWenxi Xu, Chuan Qin, Xi Chen et al. · Long Papers4 citations
20. Thinking beyond the anthropomorphic paradigm benefits LLM researchLujain Ibrahim, Myra Cheng · Long Papers4 citations
21. How Memory Management Impacts LLM Agents: An Empirical Study of Experience-Following BehaviorZidi Xiong, Yuping Lin, Wenya Xie et al. · Long Papers3 citations
22. MM-StanceDet: Retrieval-Augmented Multi-modal Multi-agent Stance DetectionWeihai Lu, Zhejun Zhao, Yanshu Li et al. · Long Papers3 citations
23. MMCLIP: Cross-Modal Attention Masked Modelling for Medical Language-Image Pre-TrainingBiao Wu, Yutong Xie, Zeyu Zhang et al. · Long Papers3 citations
24. PII-Bench: Evaluating Query-Aware Privacy Protection SystemsHao Shen, Zhouhong Gu, Haokai Hong et al. · Long Papers3 citations
25. PLAWBENCH: A Rubric-Based Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Real-World Legal PracticeYuzhen Shi, Huanghai Liu, Yiran HU et al. · Long Papers3 citations

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (23)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language EnvironmentsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Alejandro Hernández-Cano, Alexander Hägele, Allen Hao Huang, et al.2026 · 67 citations
2. Beyond Literal Mapping: Benchmarking and Improving Non-Literal Translation EvaluationAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Yanzhi Tian, Cunxiang Wang, Zeming Liu, et al.2026 · 5 citations
3. Scaling Laws for Code: A More Data-Hungry RegimeAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Xianzhen Luo, Wenzhen Zheng, Qingfu Zhu, et al.2026 · 3 citations
4. Culture-Aware Machine Translation in Large Language Models: Benchmarking and InvestigationAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Zekun Yuan, Yangfan Ye, Xiaocheng Feng, et al.2026 · 2 citations
5. Clozing the Gap: Exploring Why Language Model Surprisal Outperforms Cloze SurprisalAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Sathvik Nair, Byung-Doh Oh2026 · 1 citation
6. PEAR: Pairwise Evaluation for Automatic Relative Scoring in Machine TranslationAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Lorenzo Proietti, Roman Grundkiewicz, Matt Post2026 · 1 citation
7. Probing for Reading TimesAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Eleftheria Tsipidi, Samuel Kiegeland, Francesco Ignazio Re, et al.2026 · 1 citation
8. Rhetorical Questions in LLM Representations: A Linear Probing StudyAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Louie Hong Yao, Vishesh Anand, Yuan Zhuang, et al.2026 · 1 citation
9. Revisiting Metric Reliability for Fine-grained Evaluation of Machine Translation and Summarization in Indian LanguagesAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Amir Hossein Yari, Kalmit Kulkarni, Ahmad Raza Khan, et al.2026 · 1 citation
10. An Existence Proof for Neural Language Models That Can Explain Garden-Path Effects via SurprisalAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Ryo Yoshida, Shinnosuke Isono, Taiga Someya, et al.2026 · 1 citation
11. DRInQ: Evaluating Conversational Implicature with Controlled Context VariationAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Hirona Jacqueline Arai, Xiang Ren2026
12. Quantifying Metric and Model Agreement in Bias Evaluation of Large Language ModelsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Arash Asgari, Huan Wu, Amirreza Naziri, et al.2026
13. Beyond Word Boundaries: A Hebrew Coreference Benchmark and an Evaluation Protocol for Morphologically Complex TextRefael Shaked Greenfeld, Reut Tsarfaty2026
14. Diff4TST: Masked Diffusion Language Model for Text Style TransferAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Xinchen Ma, Gaole He, Yunshi Lan, et al.2026
15. Rethinking the Idiomaticity Decomposability Hypothesis: Evidence from Distributional LearningAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Maggie Mi, Golzar Atefi, Atsuki Yamaguchi, et al.2026
16. EIFFEL: a novel benchmark to measure bias of English heavy training on French idiomatic expressionsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Charlotte Noel, Nicholas Asher, Olivier Gouvert, et al.2026
17. MQM Re-Annotation: A Technique for Collaborative Evaluation of Machine TranslationAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Parker Riley, Daniel Deutsch, Mara Finkelstein, et al.2026
18. Quantifying the Impact of Translation Errors on Multilingual LLM EvaluationAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Klaudia Thellmann, Bernhard Stadler, Michael Färber, et al.2026
19. Diagnose, Then Repair: A Two-Stage MQM-Guided Post-Editing Framework for Domain-Specific Machine TranslationAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Ji Hun Wang, Siyu Wu2026
20. Paraphrasing as Zero-shot Translation with Feature-guided Diversity EnhancementAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Ziyue Yan, Hongying Zan, Xinglin Lyu, et al.2026
21. SWAN: Semantic Watermarking with Abstract Meaning RepresentationAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Ziping Ye, Gourab Dey, Christos Christodoulopoulos, et al.2026
22. From Graph to Text and Back: Semantic Fidelity in Automated Industrial Knowledge GraphsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Kamyar Zeinalipour, Silvia Severini, Alessia Borghini, et al.2026
23. Dynamic Meta-Metrics: Source-Sentence Conditioned Weighting for MT EvaluationAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Luke Zhang, Justin Vasselli, Aditya Khan, et al.2026

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📏Evaluation & benchmarks (10)🔁Machine translation (8)🧠Language models & pretraining (7)🧒Psycholinguistics & language acquisition (3)🔬Interpretability (2)😉Implicature (1)🔗Coreference resolution (1)📝Summarization (1)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)🧩Morphology (1)🕸️Knowledge graphs & ontologies (1)🕎Hebrew & Aramaic (1)Semitic languages (1)🧾Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)🧷Idioms & multiword expressions (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (23)🖥️Computer Science (22)💭Psychology (3)🧠Neuroscience (2)🤝Social Sciences (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles · United States2 works here🎓National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore2 works here🎓Harbin Institute of TechnologyHarbin · China2 works here🎓ETH ZurichZurich · Switzerland2 works here🎓University of SienaSiena · Italy1 work here🏛️Agency for Science, Technology and ResearchSingapore · Singapore1 work here🎓University of BernBern · Switzerland1 work here🎓Beijing Institute of TechnologyBeijing · China1 work here🏢MicrosoftRedmond · United States1 work here🔬Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueParis · France1 work here🎓Berliner Hochschule für TechnikBerlin · Germany1 work here🏢AmazonSeattle · United States1 work here

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