📰 Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026 — accepted papers

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, held in San Diego, California, United States, July 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 2,517 papers of it; our library holds 24 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

Most cited papers

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

1. A Survey on Evaluation of LLM-based AgentsAsaf Yehudai, Lilach Eden, Alan Li et al.21 citations
2. LLM-Based Human-Agent Collaboration and Interaction Systems: A SurveyHenry Peng Zou, Wei-Chieh Huang, Yaozu Wu et al.8 citations
3. Spatial-RAG: Spatial Retrieval Augmented Generation for Real-World Geospatial Reasoning QuestionsDazhou Yu, Riyang Bao, Ruiyu Ning et al.8 citations
4. Automatic Combination of Sample Selection Strategies for Few-Shot LearningBranislav Pecher, Ivan Srba, Maria Bielikova et al.5 citations
5. Justice in Judgment: Unveiling (Hidden) Bias in LLM-assisted Peer ReviewsSai Suresh Macharla Vasu, Ivaxi Sheth, Hui-Po Wang et al.5 citations
6. Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive Question Answering TaskLeonardo Ranaldi, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch5 citations
7. Arctic-Text2SQL-R1: Simple Rewards, Strong Reasoning in Text-to-SQLZhewei Yao, Guoheng Sun, Łukasz Borchmann et al.4 citations
8. ChemAmp: Amplified Chemistry Tools via Composable AgentsZhucong Li, Powei Chang, Jin Xiao et al.4 citations
9. FBS: Modeling Native Parallel Reading inside a TransformerTongxi Wang4 citations
10. GRPO-CARE: Consistency-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Multimodal ReasoningYi Chen, Yuying Ge, Rui Wang et al.4 citations

All accepted papers (2,517)

The most cited first; 24 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. A Survey on Evaluation of LLM-based AgentsAsaf Yehudai, Lilach Eden, Alan Li et al.21 citations
2. LLM-Based Human-Agent Collaboration and Interaction Systems: A SurveyHenry Peng Zou, Wei-Chieh Huang, Yaozu Wu et al.8 citations
3. Spatial-RAG: Spatial Retrieval Augmented Generation for Real-World Geospatial Reasoning QuestionsDazhou Yu, Riyang Bao, Ruiyu Ning et al.8 citations
4. Automatic Combination of Sample Selection Strategies for Few-Shot LearningBranislav Pecher, Ivan Srba, Maria Bielikova et al.5 citations
5. Justice in Judgment: Unveiling (Hidden) Bias in LLM-assisted Peer ReviewsSai Suresh Macharla Vasu, Ivaxi Sheth, Hui-Po Wang et al.5 citations
6. Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive Question Answering TaskLeonardo Ranaldi, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch5 citations
7. Arctic-Text2SQL-R1: Simple Rewards, Strong Reasoning in Text-to-SQLZhewei Yao, Guoheng Sun, Łukasz Borchmann et al.4 citations
8. ChemAmp: Amplified Chemistry Tools via Composable AgentsZhucong Li, Powei Chang, Jin Xiao et al.4 citations
9. FBS: Modeling Native Parallel Reading inside a TransformerTongxi Wang4 citations
10. GRPO-CARE: Consistency-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Multimodal ReasoningYi Chen, Yuying Ge, Rui Wang et al.4 citations
11. Infinity-Parser: Layout-Aware Reinforcement Learning with High-quality Document Parsing DatasetBaode Wang, Biao Wu, Weizhen Li et al.4 citations
12. Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution LensChengshuai Zhao, Zhen Tan, Pingchuan Ma et al.4 citations
13. SDAR: A Synergistic Diffusion-AutoRegression Paradigm for Scalable Sequence GenerationShuang Cheng, Yihan Bian, Dawei Liu et al.4 citations
14. Science Across Languages: Assessing LLM Multilingual Translation of Scientific PapersHannah Calzi Kleidermacher, James Zou4 citations
15. T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image GenerationKaiyue Sun, Rongyao Fang, Chengqi Duan et al.4 citations
16. VulAgent: Hypothesis-Validation Driven Multi-Agent Architecture for Vulnerability DetectionZiliang Wang, Ge Li, Jia Li et al.4 citations
17. A Domain-Specific Curated Benchmark for Entity and Document-Level Relation ExtractionMarco Martinelli, Stefano Marchesin, Vanessa Bonato et al.3 citations
18. A Study of LLMs' Preferences for Libraries and Programming LanguagesLukas Twist, Mark Harman, Don Syme et al.3 citations
19. A Survey on MLLM-based Visually Rich Document Understanding: Methods, Challenges, and Emerging TrendsYihao Ding, Siwen Luo, Yue Dai et al.3 citations
20. AutoAgent: A Fully-Automated and Zero-Code Framework for LLM AgentsJiabin Tang, Tianyu Fan, Chao Huang3 citations
21. Breaking the Illusion of Reasoning in Polish LLMs: Quality over Quantity of ThoughtDzmitry Pihulski, Mikołaj Langner, Jan Eliasz et al.3 citations
22. C2PO: Diagnosing and Disentangling Bias Shortcuts in LLMsXuan Feng, Bo An, Tianlong Gu et al.3 citations
23. Debiasing Large Language Models via Adaptive Causal Prompting with Sketch-of-ThoughtBowen Li, Ziqi Xu, Jing Ren et al.3 citations
24. DiagnosisArena: Benchmarking Diagnostic Reasoning for Large Language ModelsYakun Zhu, Zhongzhen Huang, Linjie Mu et al.3 citations
25. EmotionTalk: An Interactive Chinese Multimodal Emotion Dataset With Rich AnnotationsHaoqin Sun, Jinghua Zhao, Xuechen Wang et al.3 citations

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (24)

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

1. Do Diacritics Matter? Evaluating the Impact of Arabic Diacritics on Tokenization and LLM BenchmarksGo Inoue, Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash, et al.2026 · 3 citations
2. Let's Simplify Step by Step: Guiding LLM Towards Multilingual Unsupervised Proficiency-Controlled Sentence SimplificationFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsJingshen Zhang, Xin Ying Qiu, Lifang Lu, et al.2026 · 3 citations
3. UrBLiMP: A Benchmark for Evaluating the Linguistic Competence of Large Language Models in UrduFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsFarah Adeeba, Brian Dillon, Hassan Sajjad, et al.2026 · 2 citations
4. Who Watches the Watchmen? Humans Disagree With Translation Metrics on Unseen DomainsFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsFinn Schmidt, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, et al.2026 · 2 citations
5. Remedy-R: Generative Reasoning for Machine Translation Evaluation without Error AnnotationsFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsShaomu Tan, Ryosuke Mitani, Ritvik Choudhary, et al.2026 · 2 citations
6. Bridging the Culture Gap: A Framework for LLM-Driven Socio-Cultural Localization of Math Word Problems in Low-Resource LanguagesFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsIsrael Abebe Azime, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Dietrich Klakow, et al.2026 · 1 citation
7. XQ-MEval: A Dataset with Cross-lingual Parallel Quality for Benchmarking Translation MetricsFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsJingxuan Liu, Zhi Qu, Jin Tei, et al.2026 · 1 citation
8. Evaluating Machine Translation Datasets for Low-Web Data Languages: A Gendered LensFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsHellina Hailu Nigatu, Bethelhem Yemane Mamo, Bontu Fufa Balcha, et al.2026 · 1 citation
9. Uncertainty Quantification for Evaluating Gender Bias in Machine TranslationFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsIeva Staliunaite, Julius Cheng, Andreas Vlachos2026 · 1 citation
10. Recovered in Translation: Efficient Pipeline for Automated Translation of Benchmarks and DatasetsFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsHanna Yukhymenko, Anton Alexandrov, Martin Vechev2026 · 1 citation
11. Leveraging Digitized Newspapers to Collect Summarization Data in Low-Resource LanguagesNoam Dahan, Omer Kidron, Gabriel Stanovsky2026
12. Corpora Generation for Urdu Grammatical Error CorrectionFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsSyed Ahad, Burhanuddin Aliasghar Ezzi, Muhammad Arsalan Hussain, et al.2026
13. Bridging Cognition and Affect: Emotion-Aware Opinion Summarization using LLMsFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsArnav Attri, Anuj Attri2026
14. NITI: Neural Plan Concretization for Incremental Execution, Bridging and Trigger Inference from Underspecified Human PoliciesFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsAyan Banerjee, Shomrik Barua Banerjee, Sandeep Gupta2026
15. JudgeMeNot: Personalizing Large Language Models to Emulate Judicial Reasoning in HebrewItay Razumenko, Arnon Sturm, Nir Grinberg2026
16. ID10M-JAM: Stress-Testing Idiom Identification Under Challenging ContextFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsKai Golan Hashiloni, Lior Livyatan, Ofri Hefetz, et al.2026
17. MT-Video-Bench: A Holistic Video Understanding Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal LLMs in Multi-Turn DialoguesFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsYaning Pan, Qianqian Xie, Guohui Zhang, et al.2026
18. Assessing Y-Axis Influence: Bias in Multimodal Language Models on Chart-to-Table TranslationFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsSeok Hwan Song, Azher Ahmed Efat, Wallapak Tavanapong2026
19. On Temperature-Constrained Non-Deterministic Machine Translation: Potential and EvaluationFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsWeichuan Wang, Mingyang Liu, Chen Ma, et al.2026
20. Time-for-Accuracy: Formalizing Chain-of-Thought as an Expansion of Logical DepthFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsYue Wang, Zhi Zhang, Wang Xi, et al.2026
21. Redefining Machine Simultaneous Interpretation: From Incremental Translation to Human-Like StrategiesFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsQianen Zhang, Zeyu Yang, Satoshi Nakamura2026
22. The Mark Fades: Adaptive Evolutionary Paraphrase-based Attack against LLM WatermarksFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsYusheng Zhao, Jian Zhao, Tianle Zhang, et al.2026
23. ChildTalk: A Multi-Dialect Chinese Child Speech Corpus with Full-Length Child–Caregiver Conversations for Speech RecognitionFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsJiaming Zhou, Yujie Guo, Shiwan Zhao, et al.2026
24. Simplify-Pro: A Two-level and Progressive LLM-based Framework for Auto Long Text SimplificationFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsPeng Zhou, Guangxin Li, Xiaoying Huang, et al.2026

🧭 Top topics

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

📏Evaluation & benchmarks (10)🔁Machine translation (9)🧠Language models & pretraining (7)🧮Reasoning (4)Semitic languages (3)📝Summarization (2)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (2)🌱Low-resource languages (2)🕎Hebrew & Aramaic (2)🖼️Vision & language (2)Modern Hebrew (2)😊Sentiment & emotion (1)🗨️Dialogue systems (1)🎙️Speech & spoken language (1)⚖️Legal AI (1)

📚 Fields

🖥️Computer Science (24)🎭Arts and Humanities (21)🤝Social Sciences (3)⚙️Engineering (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 Science and Technology of ChinaHefei · China3 works here🎓Fudan UniversityShanghai · China2 works here🎓Nara Institute of Science and TechnologyIkoma · Japan2 works here🎓New York University Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates1 work here🎓Ben-Gurion University of the NegevBeersheba · Israel1 work here🎓Dalhousie UniversityHalifax · Canada1 work here🎓Reichman UniversityHerzliya · Israel1 work here🎓Indian Institute of Technology BombayMumbai · India1 work here🎓Tianjin UniversityTianjin · China1 work here🎓City University of Hong KongHong Kong · China1 work here🎓Iowa State UniversityAmes · United States1 work here🎓Hebrew University of JerusalemJerusalem · Israel1 work here

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