Numerous scientific publications from our department were accepted at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026
Congratulations to all authors!
Main conference:
- “Disco-RAG: Discourse-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation”
by Dongqi Liu, Hang Ding, Qiming Feng, Jian Li, Xurong Xie, Zhucun Xue, Chengjie Wang, Jiangning Zhang, Yabiao Wang. - "From Weights to Activations: Is Steering the Next Frontier of Adaptation?"
by Simon Ostermann, Daniil Gurgurov, Tanja Baeumel, Michael A. Hedderich, Sebastian Lapuschkin, Wojciech Samek, Vera Schmitt. - "Systematicity between Forms and Meanings across Languages Supports Efficient Communication"
by Doreen Osmelak, Yang Xu, Michael Hahn, Kate McCurdy. - “Why Does Reinforcement Learning Generalize? A Feature-Level Mechanistic Study of Post-Training in Large Language Models”
by Dan Shi, Zhuowen Han, Simon Ostermann, Renren Jin, Josef van Genabith, Deyi Xiong.
Findings:
- “CLaS-Bench: A Cross-Lingual Alignment and Steering Benchmark”
by Daniil Gurgurov , Yusser Al Ghussin, Tanja Baeumel, Cheng-Ting Chou, Patrick Schramowski, Marius Mosbach, Josef van Genabith, Simon Ostermann. - “DualFact+: A Multimodal Fact Verification Framework for Procedural Video Captioning”
by Cennet Oguz, Yasser Hamidullah, Josef van Genabith, Simon Ostermann. - “System-Mediated Attention Imbalances Make Vision-Language Models Say Yes”
by Tsan Tsai Chan, Varsha Suresh, Anisha Saha, Michael Hahn, Vera Demberg.