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CMCL 2026 — accepted papers

CMCL 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL), held in Palma, Mallorca (Spain), May 2026 (publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)). The ACL Anthology lists 26 papers of it; our library holds 16 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

 26papers in the proceedings 16works in our library 2citations of these works Palma, Mallorca (Spain)where it was held May 2026when

All accepted papers (26)

The most cited first; 16 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

  1. Aggregated Transformer Attention Measures Predict Reading Times Beyond SurprisalLukas Mielczarek, Laura Kallmeyerour summary
  2. Benchmarking Source-Sensitive Reasoning in Turkish: Humans and LLMs under Evidential Trust ManipulationSercan Karakas, Yusuf Şimşek
  3. Brain-to-Text Decoding with Brain Atlases and Brain Foundation ModelsHaruka Akama, Ryo Yoshida, Max Müller-Eberstein et al.
  4. Can LLMs Simulate Human Behavioral Variability? A Case Study in the Phonemic Fluency TaskMengyang Qiu, Zoe Brisebois, Siena Sunour summary
  5. Causal Inferences Are Driven by Noun Concept Specificity Evidence from Self-Paced Reading and Large Language Model SurprisalFabian Schlotterbeck, Raphael Barthour summary
  6. Character-aware Transformers Learn an Irregular Morphological Pattern Yet None Generalize Like HumansAkhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Kevin Tang, Dinah Baer-Henneyour summary
  7. ChineseDevBench: A Chinese Developmental Benchmark for Language DevelopmentShaonan Wang, Yiwen Wu, Na Li et al.our summary
  8. Comparing Transformer Model Interpretability with Human Cognition: A Dual Analysis of Attention and AttributionLingchen Kong, Jinnie Shin, Pavlo Antonenko
  9. Correlating Language Model Surprisal With Cloze and Plausibility: Getting the Best of Both MeasuresKate Rebecca Belcher, Matthew Crocker
  10. Disentanglement and Compositionality of Letter Identity and Letter Position in Variational Auto-Encoder Vision ModelsBruno Bianchi, Aakash Agrawal, Stanislas Dehaene et al.
  11. Examining Algebraic Recombination for Compositional GeneralisationJoaquin Cardona Ruiz, Antske Fokkens, Lucia Donatelliour summary
  12. Floating or Suggesting Ideas? A Large-Scale Contrastive Analysis of Metaphorical and Literal Verb–Object ConstructionsPrisca Piccirilli, Alexander Fraser, Sabine Schulte im Waldeour summary
  13. Headlines You Won't Forget: Can Pronoun Insertion Increase Memorability?Selina Meyer, Magdalena Abel, Michael Rothour summary
  14. Is Cross-Lingual Transfer in Bilingual Models Human-Like? A Study with Overlapping Word Forms in Dutch and EnglishIza Škrjanec, Irene Elisabeth Winther, Vera Demberg et al.our summary
  15. Modeling semantic association in self-paced reading with language model embeddingsSara Møller Østergaard, Kenneth Enevoldsen, Afra Alishahi et al.our summary
  16. Plausibility as Commonsense Reasoning: Humans Succeed, Large Language Models Do notSercan Karakas
  17. Predicting Sentence Acceptability Judgments in Multimodal ContextsHyewon Jang, Nikolai Ilinykh, Sharid Loaiciga et al.
  18. Social Meaning in Large Language Models: Structure, Magnitude, and Pragmatic PromptingRoland Mühlenbernd
  19. Teaching LLMs to unveil tendentious implicit contents of Italian political communicationWalter Paci, Lorenzo Gregori, Alessandro Panunziour summary
  20. ToM in LLM is not ToM, but a Pragmatic EffectAgnese Lombardi, Alessandro Lenci
  21. Topic-context Dependency on Continuous Semantic Reconstruction of Language from fMRI SignalsFermin Travi, Agustin Delmagro, Diego Fernandez Slezak et al.our summary
  22. Toward Cognitive Alignment in Large Language Models: Integrating Linguistic Theory and Human DataWajdi Zaghouaniour summary
  23. Transformer Attention as a Unified Model of Encoding and Retrieval in Human Sentence ProcessingDan Parkerour summary
  24. Translation from the Information Bottleneck Perspective: an Efficiency Analysis of Spatial Prepositions in BitextsAntoine Taroni, Ludovic Moncla, Frederique Laforestour summary
  25. What Kind of Language is Easy to Language-Model Under Curriculum Learning?Nadine El-Naggar, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ted Briscoeour summary

See all 26 papers in CMCL 2026 — accepted papers →

 Papers with our summary in our library (16)

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

  1. Can LLMs Simulate Human Behavioral Variability? A Case Study in the Phonemic Fluency TaskWorkshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Mengyang Qiu, Zoe Brisebois, Siena Sun2026 · 2 citations
  2. Headlines You Won't Forget: Can Pronoun Insertion Increase Memorability?Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Selina Meyer, Magdalena Abel, Michael Roth2026
  3. Aggregated Transformer Attention Measures Predict Reading Times Beyond SurprisalWorkshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Lukas Mielczarek, Laura Kallmeyer2026
  4. What Kind of Language is Easy to Language-Model Under Curriculum Learning?Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Nadine El-Naggar, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ted Briscoe2026
  5. Modeling semantic association in self-paced reading with language model embeddingsWorkshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Sara Møller Østergaard, Kenneth Enevoldsen, Afra Alishahi, et al.2026
  6. Teaching LLMs to unveil tendentious implicit contents of Italian political communicationWorkshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Walter Paci, Lorenzo Gregori, Alessandro Panunzi2026
  7. Transformer Attention as a Unified Model of Encoding and Retrieval in Human Sentence ProcessingWorkshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Dan Parker2026
  8. Floating or Suggesting Ideas? A Large-Scale Contrastive Analysis of Metaphorical and Literal Verb–Object ConstructionsWorkshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Prisca Piccirilli, Alexander Fraser, Sabine Schulte im Walde2026
  9. Character-aware Transformers Learn an Irregular Morphological Pattern Yet None Generalize Like HumansWorkshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Kevin Tang, Dinah Baer-Henney2026
  10. Examining Algebraic Recombination for Compositional GeneralisationWorkshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Joaquin Cardona Ruiz, Antske Fokkens, Lucia Donatelli2026
  11. Causal Inferences Are Driven by Noun Concept Specificity Evidence from Self-Paced Reading and Large Language Model SurprisalWorkshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Fabian Schlotterbeck, Raphael Barth2026
  12. Is Cross-Lingual Transfer in Bilingual Models Human-Like? A Study with Overlapping Word Forms in Dutch and EnglishWorkshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Iza Škrjanec, Irene Elisabeth Winther, Vera Demberg, et al.2026
  13. Translation from the Information Bottleneck Perspective: an Efficiency Analysis of Spatial Prepositions in BitextsWorkshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Antoine Taroni, Ludovic Moncla, Frederique Laforest2026
  14. Topic-context Dependency on Continuous Semantic Reconstruction of Language from fMRI SignalsWorkshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Fermin Travi, Agustin Delmagro, Diego Fernandez Slezak, et al.2026
  15. ChineseDevBench: A Chinese Developmental Benchmark for Language DevelopmentWorkshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Shaonan Wang, Yiwen Wu, Na Li, et al.2026
  16. Toward Cognitive Alignment in Large Language Models: Integrating Linguistic Theory and Human DataWorkshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)Wajdi Zaghouani2026

 Top topics

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

Language models & pretraining (6)Psycholinguistics & language acquisition (5)Implicature (1)Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)Morphology (1)Evaluation & benchmarks (1)Idioms & multiword expressions (1)English (1)

 Fields

Arts and Humanities (16)Computer Science (14)Neuroscience (8)Psychology (8)

 Top authors

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

🧑‍🔬Afra Alishahi1 work here🧑‍🔬Alexander Fraser1 work here🧑‍🔬Antske Fokkens1 work here🧑‍🔬Bruno Nicenboim1 work here🧑‍🔬Frederique Laforest1 work here🧑‍🔬Kenneth Christian Enevoldsen1 work here🧑‍🔬Laura Kallmeyer1 work here🧑‍🔬Lucia Donatelli1 work here🧑‍🔬Ludovic Moncla1 work here🧑‍🔬Michael Roth1 work here🧑‍🔬Prisca Piccirilli1 work here🧑‍🔬Sabine Schulte im Walde1 work here

 Top institutions

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

🎓University of StuttgartStuttgart · Germany1 work here🔬Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueParis · France1 work here🎓Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong · China1 work here🎓Radboud University NijmegenNijmegen · Netherlands1 work here🎓University of AucklandAuckland · New Zealand1 work here🎓Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityShanghai · China1 work here🎓Tilburg UniversityTilburg · Netherlands1 work here🎓Universidad de Buenos AiresBuenos Aires · Argentina1 work here🎓University of FloridaGainesville · United States1 work here🎓Northwestern University in QatarDoha · Qatar1 work here🎓University of Technology NurembergNuremberg · Germany1 work here🎓Munich Center for Machine LearningMunich · Germany1 work here

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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