📰 *SEM 2026 — accepted papers

*SEM 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), held in San Diego, California, United States, July 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 36 papers of it; our library holds 22 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 San Diego, California, United States · 🗓 July 2026

Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. Can a Remedy Find a Researcher? Exploring the Development of Semantic Knowledge in Italian BabyLMsAlice Suozzi, Luca Capone, Gianluca Lebani et al. · 🏆 Best Paperour summary
2. Finding Sense in Nonsense with Generated Contexts: Perspectives from Humans and Language ModelsKatrina Olsen, Sebastian Padó · 🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mentionour summary

Most cited papers

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

1. Interactive Agents: Simulating Counselor-Client Psychological Counseling via Role-Playing LLM-to-LLM InteractionsHuachuan Qiu, Zhenzhong Lan6 citations · our summary
2. Frame In, Frame Out: Measuring Framing Bias in LLM-Generated News SummariesValeria Pastorino, Nafise Sadat Moosavi3 citations · our summary
3. A framework for annotating and modelling intentions behind metaphor useGianluca Michelli, Xiaoyu Tong, Ekaterina Shutova1 citation · our summary
4. Can LLMs Solve My Grandma's Riddle? Evaluating Multilingual Large Language Models on Reasoning Traditional Bangla Tricky Riddles ↗Nurul Labib Sayeedi, Md. Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi, Khushnur Binte Jahangir et al.1 citation
5. The LSCD Benchmark: a Testbed for Diachronic Word Meaning TasksDominik Schlechtweg, Sachin Yadav, Jonas Kuhn et al.1 citation · our summary

All accepted papers (36)

The most cited first; 22 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Interactive Agents: Simulating Counselor-Client Psychological Counseling via Role-Playing LLM-to-LLM InteractionsHuachuan Qiu, Zhenzhong Lan6 citations · our summary
2. Frame In, Frame Out: Measuring Framing Bias in LLM-Generated News SummariesValeria Pastorino, Nafise Sadat Moosavi3 citations · our summary
3. A framework for annotating and modelling intentions behind metaphor useGianluca Michelli, Xiaoyu Tong, Ekaterina Shutova1 citation · our summary
4. Can LLMs Solve My Grandma's Riddle? Evaluating Multilingual Large Language Models on Reasoning Traditional Bangla Tricky Riddles ↗Nurul Labib Sayeedi, Md. Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi, Khushnur Binte Jahangir et al.1 citation
5. The LSCD Benchmark: a Testbed for Diachronic Word Meaning TasksDominik Schlechtweg, Sachin Yadav, Jonas Kuhn et al.1 citation · our summary
6. *-PLUIE: Personalisable metric with Llm Used for Improved Evaluation ↗Quentin Lemesle, Leane Jourdan, Daisy Munson et al.
7. A Logic-Based Approach to Hallucinations in Data-to-Text NLG: Experiments with Human and LLM Annotators ↗Eduardo Calò, Saad Mahamood, Albert Gatt et al.
8. Annotating Indian Regional Biases using Large Language Models: Evaluation and AnalysisDebasmita Panda, Akash Anil, Neelesh Kumar Shuklaour summary
9. Beyond Accuracy: Interpreting Topic Representation in Suicide Ideation Detection Models ↗Hamideh Ghanadian, Isar Nejadgholi, Hussein Al Osman
10. Can You Be More Explicit? A Task and Dataset on Explicitations of Implicit MeaningLaura Zeidler, Michael Rothour summary
11. Can a Remedy Find a Researcher? Exploring the Development of Semantic Knowledge in Italian BabyLMsAlice Suozzi, Luca Capone, Gianluca Lebani et al. · 🏆 Best Paperour summary
12. Compositional Meaning Representations in LLMs: a Critical Review of Probing StudiesRémy Marroour summary
13. Diagnosing Generalization in Open-Source LLMs for Stance Detection ↗Parush Gera, Tempestt Neal
14. Dictionary Insertion Prompting for Multilingual Reasoning on Multilingual Large Language Models ↗Hongyuan Lu, Z.L. L, Wai Lam
15. Do Factual Recall Mechanisms Carry over from Text to Speech in Multimodal Language Models?Luca Modica, Filip Landin, Mehrdad Farahani et al.our summary
16. Entropy-aware Masking for Masked Language ModelingGokul Srinivasagan, Kai Hartung, Munir Georgesour summary
17. EvalMORAAL: Interpretable Chain-of-Thought and LLM-as-Judge Evaluation for Moral Alignment in Large Language Models ↗Hadi Mohammadi, Anastasia Giachanou, Robert A. Bagheri
18. Evaluating Adjective-Noun Compositionality in LLMs: Functional vs Representational Perspectives ↗Ruchira Dhar, Qiwei Peng, Anders Søgaard
19. Finding Sense in Nonsense with Generated Contexts: Perspectives from Humans and Language ModelsKatrina Olsen, Sebastian Padó · 🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mentionour summary
20. From Latents to Labels: Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition using Sparse Autoencoder FeaturesNakanyseth Vuth, Gilles Sérasset, Didier Schwabour summary
21. HistoryBankQA: Multilingual Temporal Question Answering on Historical EventsBiswadip Mandal, Anant Khandelwal, Manish Guptaour summary
22. Lexical Availability and Human Distributional Agreement in GPT-4o's Color Naming ↗Anna Feldman, Jing Peng
23. Mitigating Language Bias in Multilingual Sentence Embeddings for Cross-Lingual Similarity EstimationKanade Nonomura, Keita Fukushima, Risa Kondo et al.our summary
24. One Word Is Not Enough: Simple Prompts Improve Word EmbeddingsRajeev Ranjanour summary
25. ReFRAME or Remain: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection with Frame Semantics ↗Bach Phan Tat, Kris Heylen, Stefano De Pascale et al.

See all 36 papers in SEM 2026 — accepted papers →

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (22)

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

1. Interactive Agents: Simulating Counselor-Client Psychological Counseling via Role-Playing LLM-to-LLM InteractionsJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Huachuan Qiu, Zhenzhong Lan2026 · 31 citations
2. The LSCD Benchmark: a Testbed for Diachronic Word Meaning TasksJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Dominik Schlechtweg, Sachin Yadav, Jonas Kuhn, et al.2026 · 6 citations
3. Frame In, Frame Out: Measuring Framing Bias in LLM-Generated News SummariesJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Valeria Pastorino, Nafise Sadat Moosavi2026 · 3 citations
4. A framework for annotating and modelling intentions behind metaphor useJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Gianluca Michelli, Xiaoyu Tong, Ekaterina Shutova2026 · 1 citation
5. Mitigating Language Bias in Multilingual Sentence Embeddings for Cross-Lingual Similarity EstimationJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Kanade Nonomura, Keita Fukushima, Risa Kondo, et al.2026 · 1 citation
6. SemToken: Semantic-Aware Tokenization for Efficient Long-Context Language ModelsJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu2026
7. Toxic Subword Pruning for Dialogue Response Generation on Large Language ModelsJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Hongyuan Adam Lu, Wai Lam2026
8. HistoryBankQA: Multilingual Temporal Question Answering on Historical EventsJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Biswadip Mandal, Anant Khandelwal, Manish Gupta2026
9. Compositional Meaning Representations in LLMs: a Critical Review of Probing StudiesJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Rémy Marro2026
10. Do Factual Recall Mechanisms Carry over from Text to Speech in Multimodal Language Models?Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Luca Modica, Filip Landin, Mehrdad Farahani, et al.2026
11. The Frequency Confound in Language-Model Surprisal and Metaphor NoveltyJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Omar Momen, Sina Zarrieß2026
12. Finding Sense in Nonsense with Generated Contexts: Perspectives from Humans and Language ModelsJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Katrina Olsen, Sebastian Padó2026
13. Annotating Indian Regional Biases using Large Language Models: Evaluation and AnalysisJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Debasmita Panda, Akash Anil, Neelesh Kumar Shukla2026
14. Under the Surface: Probing Tamil Paraphrase IntelligenceJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Viswadarshan R R, Dr. J. Felicia Lilian, Mahalakshmi S2026
15. One Word Is Not Enough: Simple Prompts Improve Word EmbeddingsJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Rajeev Ranjan2026
16. ZIP: Quantifying Which Words Matter in Zero-Shot Instructional PromptsJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Nikta Gohari Sadr, Sangmitra Madhusudan, Arash Asgari, et al.2026
17. Uncovering Ideological Bias in RAG with Lexical Multidimensional Analysis: A Case Study on COVID-19Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Elmira Salari, Maria Claudia Nunes Delfino, Hazem Amamou, et al.2026
18. Entropy-aware Masking for Masked Language ModelingJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Gokul Srinivasagan, Kai Hartung, Munir Georges2026
19. Can a Remedy Find a Researcher? Exploring the Development of Semantic Knowledge in Italian BabyLMsJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Alice Suozzi, Luca Capone, Gianluca Lebani, et al.2026
20. From Latents to Labels: Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition using Sparse Autoencoder FeaturesJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Nakanyseth Vuth, Gilles Sérasset, Didier Schwab2026
21. Syntactic Priming in Few-Shot Learning: How Demonstration Structure Shapes LLM PerformanceJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Prasanth Yadla2026
22. Can You Be More Explicit? A Task and Dataset on Explicitations of Implicit MeaningJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Laura Zeidler, Michael Roth2026

🧭 Top topics

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

🧠Language models & pretraining (9)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (2)🔬Interpretability (2)✂️Tokenization & segmentation (2)🧷Idioms & multiword expressions (2)🏷️Named entity recognition (1)❓Question answering (1)🗨️Dialogue systems (1)🎙️Speech & spoken language (1)📖Lexical semantics & word embeddings (1)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (1)🧾Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)🧒Psycholinguistics & language acquisition (1)🛡️Bias, fairness & safety (1)🖼️Vision & language (1)

📚 Fields

🖥️Computer Science (22)🎭Arts and Humanities (21)💭Psychology (3)🤝Social Sciences (2)🧠Neuroscience (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 StuttgartStuttgart · Germany2 works here🎓Institut polytechnique de GrenobleGrenoble · France1 work here🎓University of PisaPisa · Italy1 work here🔬Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueParis · France1 work here🎓Dalhousie UniversityHalifax · Canada1 work here🎓Ca' Foscari University of VeniceVenice · Italy1 work here🎓Emory UniversityAtlanta · United States1 work here🎓Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong · China1 work here🎓University of OsloOslo · Norway1 work here🎓York UniversityToronto · Canada1 work here🎓Tilburg UniversityTilburg · Netherlands1 work here🎓Bielefeld UniversityBielefeld · Germany1 work here

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