I’m heading to ACL this weekend. And so are several others in ITAO.
It’s very exciting. ACL, the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, is the top conference each year for work on computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP). I’d call CL/NLP my computer science academic home (with information systems being my business academic home), so it’s very exciting to see Mendoza’s ITAO department being so well-represented this year.
Here is a list of papers/posters that ITAO folks will be presenting at the ACL main conference and co-located workshops. Congrats everyone!
Main Conference and Findings
- Krishna Pothugunta and John P. Lalor. 2026. Carefully Considering Culture: Analyzing LLM Alignment in Single- and Multi-Cultural Settings using Cultural Consensus Theory. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, pages 26571–26582, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Aida Sanatizadeh, Sorouralsadat Fatemi, Reza Mousavi, and Ahmed Abbasi. 2026. Generalization or Memorization? Multi-Agent vs. Baseline LLMs and AutoML Models for Tabular Classification. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, pages 40099–40132, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Guangwei Zhang, Jianing Zhu, Cheng Qian, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Rada Mihalcea, Zhaozhuo Xu, Jingrui He, Jiaqi W. Ma, Chaowei Xiao, Bo Li, Ahmed Abbasi, Dongwon Lee, Heng Ji, and Denghui Zhang. 2026. Copyright Detective: A Forensic System to Evidence LLMs Flickering Copyright Leakage Risks. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), pages 14–26, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Raymond Alavo, Xinyuan Zhang, Gemza Ademaj, Junhui Cai, Hyeokhyen Kwon, Robert Cotes, Gari D. Clifford, and Ahmed Abbasi. 2026. Dash-M5H: An Interactive Dashboard for Multi-Modal, Multi-Model Mental Health Assessment. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), pages 138–147, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Workshops
- Suzie Xi, Zhongheng Cheng, Deepak Kumar Soni, and Mark Turner. 2026. Evaluating Creative Generative AI with Conceptual Blending. In ACL 2026 Workshop on Evaluating Evaluations (EvalEval). Poster presentation
- Guangyu Meng and John P. Lalor. 2026. A Psychology-based Unified Dynamic Framework for Curriculum Learning. In ACL 2026 Generation, Evaluation & Metrics Workshop (GEM). Poster presentation
- Krishna Pothugunta and John P. Lalor. 2026. Carefully Considering Culture: Analyzing LLM Alignment in Single- and
Multi-Cultural Settings using Cultural Consensus Theory.
- Poster in ACL 2026 Generation, Evaluation & Metrics Workshop (GEM).
- Poster and Author Panel in ACL 2026 Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP).