10 September 2026, by Chris Biemann

We are happy to announce that EMNLP 2026 has accepted 5 papers from LT members:

• Tadesse Destaw Belay, Shahriar Kabir Nahin, Israel Abebe Azime, Ocean Monjur, Marek Rei, Chris Biemann, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Seid Muhie Yimam, Anshuman Chhabra (2026): AFRILANGTUTOR: Advancing Language Tutoring and Culture Education in Low-Resource Languages with Large Language Models. Findings of EMNLP
• Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, Alexander Gelbukh, Eusebio Ricárdez-Vázquez, Olga Kolesnikova, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Seid Muhie Yimam (2026): Beyond Majority Voting: Agreement-Based Clustering to Model Annotator Perspectives in Subjective NLP Tasks. TACL (presentation at EMNLP)
• Bo Zeng, Yu Zhao, Yefeng Liu, Zhihong Lu, Xuanfan Ni, Xintong Wang (2026): What Matters for Aggressive Decoding-Time KV Eviction? Temporal Aggregation and Ranking Preservation. EMNLP Main track
• Bo Zeng, Linfeng Gao, Peiqin Lin, Yu Zhao, Mingyan Zeng, Yu Tong, Xintong Wang, Linlong Xu, Longyue Wang, Weihua Luo, Qinggang Zhang, Jinsong Su (2026): CulturalMenuBench: Probing the Knowledge-Application Gap in Multimodal Culinary Reasoning. Findings of EMNLP
• Mohamed Rissal Hedna, Jan Strich, Martin Semmann, Chris Biemann (2026): Self-Calibrating Language Models via Test-Time Discriminative Distillation. EMNLP Main track