📰 Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health 2026 — accepted papers

Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health, held in Rabat, Morocco, March 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 28 papers of it; our library holds 11 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Rabat, Morocco · 🗓 March 2026

Most cited papers

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

1. The Doctor Will Agree With You Now: Sycophancy of Large Language Models in Multi-Turn Medical Conversations ↗Taeil Matthew Kim, Luyang Luo, Sung Eun Kim et al.7 citations
2. Almost Clinical: Linguistic properties of synthetic electronic health recordsSerge Sharoff, John Baker, Dr David Francis Hunt et al.1 citation · our summary
3. An Enhanced Training-Free Pipeline for Entity Recognition and Linking: A Low-Resource Case Study – 20-th Century Historical Medical TextsPhu-Vinh Nguyen, Vera Danilova1 citation · our summary
4. Do Mixed-Vendor Multi-Agent LLMs Improve Clinical Diagnosis?Grace Chang Yuan, Xiaoman Zhang, Sung Eun Kim et al.1 citation · our summary
5. From Pain to Praise: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Norwegian Patient FeedbackLilja Charlotte Storset, Elma Jelin, Rebecka Maria Norman et al.1 citation · our summary

All accepted papers (28)

The most cited first; 11 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. The Doctor Will Agree With You Now: Sycophancy of Large Language Models in Multi-Turn Medical Conversations ↗Taeil Matthew Kim, Luyang Luo, Sung Eun Kim et al.7 citations
2. Almost Clinical: Linguistic properties of synthetic electronic health recordsSerge Sharoff, John Baker, Dr David Francis Hunt et al.1 citation · our summary
3. An Enhanced Training-Free Pipeline for Entity Recognition and Linking: A Low-Resource Case Study – 20-th Century Historical Medical TextsPhu-Vinh Nguyen, Vera Danilova1 citation · our summary
4. Do Mixed-Vendor Multi-Agent LLMs Improve Clinical Diagnosis?Grace Chang Yuan, Xiaoman Zhang, Sung Eun Kim et al.1 citation · our summary
5. From Pain to Praise: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Norwegian Patient FeedbackLilja Charlotte Storset, Elma Jelin, Rebecka Maria Norman et al.1 citation · our summary
6. A Graph-Augmented Liquid Neural Network for Extracting Food Hazards and Disease Outbreaks ↗Tirthankar Dasgupta, Manjira Sinha, Sudeshna Jana et al.
7. A Multimodal Framework for Aphasia Severity Classification in Russian ↗Kolmogorova Anastasia, Ekaterina Yavshitz, Anastasia Margolina et al.
8. Cross-Lingual Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models for Arabic Medical TasksChaimae Abouzahir, Congbo Ma, Nizar Habash et al.our summary
9. Data Augmentation Based on Selective Masking of Language Models for One Health ContextYoussef Mahdoubi, Najlae Idrissi, Mathieu Roche et al.our summary
10. Delayed Wh-Question Development in Children with Hearing Loss: Evidence for Morphosyntactic Vulnerability from Corpus-Based NLP and LLM AnalysesTong Wuour summary
11. DementiaBank-Emotion: A Multi-Rater Emotion Annotation Corpus for Alzheimer's Disease Speech (Version 1.0) ↗Cheonkam Jeong, Jessica Liao, Audrey Lu et al.
12. Discourses of Prevention: A Multimodal Study of HPV Vaccination Campaigns in Italy ↗Claudia Roberta Combei, Antonio Bianco, Elena Giribaldi et al.
13. Empathy as interactional accomplishment in clinical interactions with a conversational agent ↗Spencer Hazel, Adam Brandt, Yajie Vera He et al.
14. Graph-Enhanced LLM Analysis of Multimodal Health Communities: A Computational Framework for Patient Discourse Understanding on TikTok ↗Tawakalit Agboola, Oluwaseun Ajao
15. Importance of Prompt Optimisation for Error Detection in Medical Notes Using Language ModelsCraig Myles, Patrick Schrempf, David Harris-Birtillour summary
16. LLM Plug-ins Are Not a Free Lunch for Clinical Time-Series Prediction ↗Juhwan Choi, Kwanhyung Lee, Sangchul Hahn et al.
17. Linguistic Blind Spots in Clinical Decision Extraction ↗Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
18. Linguistic Features Competitive with Bert! Leveraging Speech for Detection of Mental Health in Paediatric Lupus ↗Jida Jaffan, Barend Beekhuizen, Andrea Knight
19. Mind Your Steps in Biomedical Named Entity Recognition: First Extract, Tag AfterwardsDarya Shlyk, Stefano Montanelli, Marco Mesiti et al.our summary
20. Modulating Multi-Label Tendency in Zero-Shot LLM Coding: The Effect of Output Structure on CDSS Feedback Analysis ↗Hyunwoo Choo, Sungsoo Hong
21. Normalizing Health Concepts with Biomedical Embedding and LLMs ↗Iram Azam, Keyuan Jiang, Gordon Bernard
22. Position: Biomedical NLP Demands Specialization, Not GeneralizationAzmine Toushik Wasiour summary
23. Semantic Echo Pathways (SEP): Tracing How Medical Language Propagates and Transforms ↗Charu Karakkaparambil James, Marcio Monteiro, Sophie Fellenz
24. StressRoBERTa: Cross-Condition Transfer Learning from Depression, Anxiety, and PTSD to Stress Detection ↗Amal Abdullah Alqahtani, Efsun Kayi, Mona T. Diab
25. Towards Inclusive Communication in Cancer Prevention and Treatment: A Case Study on Italian Informational Materials ↗Chiara Cassani, Luca Brigada Villa, Marco Forlano et al.

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (11)

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

1. Cross-Lingual Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models for Arabic Medical TasksWorkshop on Linguistic Analysis for HealthChaimae Abouzahir, Congbo Ma, Nizar Habash, et al.2026 · 1 citation
2. An Enhanced Training-Free Pipeline for Entity Recognition and Linking: A Low-Resource Case Study – 20-th Century Historical Medical TextsWorkshop on Linguistic Analysis for HealthPhu-Vinh Nguyen, Vera Danilova2026 · 1 citation
3. Almost Clinical: Linguistic properties of synthetic electronic health recordsWorkshop on Linguistic Analysis for HealthSerge Sharoff, John Baker, Dr David Francis Hunt, et al.2026 · 1 citation
4. From Pain to Praise: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Norwegian Patient FeedbackWorkshop on Linguistic Analysis for HealthLilja Charlotte Storset, Elma Jelin, Rebecka Maria Norman, et al.2026 · 1 citation
5. Do Mixed-Vendor Multi-Agent LLMs Improve Clinical Diagnosis?Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for HealthGrace Chang Yuan, Xiaoman Zhang, Sung Eun Kim, et al.2026 · 1 citation
6. Data Augmentation Based on Selective Masking of Language Models for One Health ContextWorkshop on Linguistic Analysis for HealthYoussef Mahdoubi, Najlae Idrissi, Mathieu Roche, et al.2026
7. Tracking Autism Stigma in Italian Newspapers: A Longitudinal Analysis of Media Discourse (2016–2025)Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for HealthGinevra Martinelli, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Daniela Ovadia, et al.2026
8. Importance of Prompt Optimisation for Error Detection in Medical Notes Using Language ModelsWorkshop on Linguistic Analysis for HealthCraig Myles, Patrick Schrempf, David Harris-Birtill2026
9. Mind Your Steps in Biomedical Named Entity Recognition: First Extract, Tag AfterwardsWorkshop on Linguistic Analysis for HealthDarya Shlyk, Stefano Montanelli, Marco Mesiti, et al.2026
10. Position: Biomedical NLP Demands Specialization, Not GeneralizationWorkshop on Linguistic Analysis for HealthToushik Wasi, Azmine2026
11. Delayed Wh-Question Development in Children with Hearing Loss: Evidence for Morphosyntactic Vulnerability from Corpus-Based NLP and LLM AnalysesWorkshop on Linguistic Analysis for HealthTong Wu2026

🧭 Top topics

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

🏷️Named entity recognition (2)🧠Language models & pretraining (2)🧵Discourse analysis (1)😊Sentiment & emotion (1)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)🌱Low-resource languages (1)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (1)Semitic languages (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (8)🖥️Computer Science (8)🩺Medicine (6)🧬Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (2)💭Psychology (2)🏥Health Professions (2)🧠Neuroscience (1)🤝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.

🎓New York University Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates1 work here🎓Leiden UniversityLeiden · Netherlands1 work here🎓Uppsala UniversityUppsala · Sweden1 work here🎓Shahjalal University of Science and TechnologySylhet · Bangladesh1 work here🎓Harvard UniversityCambridge · United States1 work here🎓King's College LondonLondon · United Kingdom1 work here🎓University of OsloOslo · Norway1 work here🎓University of MilanMilan · Italy1 work here🎓Université de MontpellierMontpellier · France1 work here🎓University of ExeterExeter · United Kingdom1 work here🎓University of ChicagoChicago · United States1 work here🏛️Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementParis · France1 work here

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