📰 CMCL 2026: all accepted papers

26 papers · the most cited first · ← CMCL 2026

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 Manipulation ↗Sercan Karakas, Yusuf Şimşek
3. Brain-to-Text Decoding with Brain Atlases and Brain Foundation Models ↗Haruka 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 Attribution ↗Lingchen Kong, Jinnie Shin, Pavlo Antonenko
9. Correlating Language Model Surprisal With Cloze and Plausibility: Getting the Best of Both Measures ↗Kate Rebecca Belcher, Matthew Crocker
10. Disentanglement and Compositionality of Letter Identity and Letter Position in Variational Auto-Encoder Vision Models ↗Bruno 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 not ↗Sercan Karakas
17. Predicting Sentence Acceptability Judgments in Multimodal Contexts ↗Hyewon Jang, Nikolai Ilinykh, Sharid Loaiciga et al.
18. Social Meaning in Large Language Models: Structure, Magnitude, and Pragmatic Prompting ↗Roland 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 Effect ↗Agnese 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
26. `Layer su Layer': Identifying and Disambiguating the Italian NPN Construction in BERT's family ↗Greta Gorzoni, Ludovica Pannitto, Francesca Masini

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