Several Contributions accepted at EACL 2026

We are happy to announce that several contributions by members of our department have been accepted at EACL 2026. Congratulations to all authors!

Main conference  - EACL 2026

• “Tug-of-war between idioms' figurative and literal interpretations in LLMs” by
  Soyoung Oh, Xinting Huang, Mathis Pink, Michael Hahn, Vera Demberg
• "When Flores Bloomz Wrong: An Analysis of Cross-Lingual Contamination in Machine Translation Evaluation" by
  David Tan, Pinzhen Chen, Josef van Genabith, Koel Dutta Chowdhury
• “Assessing Web Search Credibility and Response Groundedness in Chat Assistants” by
  Ivan Vykopal, Matúš Pikuliak, Simon Ostermann, Marián Šimko

EACL Findings 2026

• “Modeling Turn-Taking with Semantically Informed Gestures” by
  Varsha Suresh, M. Hamza Mughal, Christian Theobalt, Vera Demberg