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  • New publications at ArabicNLP 2026 Shared Tasks

    We are pleased to inform you about the acceptance of papers at ArabicNLP 2026 Shared Tasks

    Bhuvanesh Verma, Ali Abusaleh and Alexander Mehler.

    2026.

    TTLab at StanceEval-2026: A Cloze-Style Prompting Approach for
    Arabic-Language Stance Detection (CLASP-Ar)
    .
    SIGARAB ArabicNLP 2026 StanceEval Shared Task.

    accepted.

    BibTeX

    @inproceedings{Verma:et:al:2026:CLASP,
      title     = {TTLab at StanceEval-2026: A Cloze-Style Prompting Approach for
                   Arabic-Language Stance Detection (CLASP-Ar)},
      author    = {Bhuvanesh Verma and Ali Abusaleh and Alexander Mehler},
      booktitle = {SIGARAB ArabicNLP 2026 StanceEval Shared Task},
      year      = {2026},
      address   = {Budapest, Hungary},
      keywords  = {NLP, Stance Detection, Arabic-nlp, multitask learning, spp, circlet},
      note      = {accepted}
    }

    Ali Abusaleh, Bhuvanesh Verma and Alexander Mehler.

    2026.

    TTLab at AlexandriaX-2026: A Fine-Tuned Surface Tagger for Arabic
    Machine-Translation Error-Span Detection and Classification
    .
    SIGARAB ArabicNLP 2026 AlexandriaX Shared Task.

    accepted.

    BibTeX

    @inproceedings{Abusaleh:et:al:2026:mt,
      title     = {TTLab at AlexandriaX-2026: A Fine-Tuned Surface Tagger for Arabic
                   Machine-Translation Error-Span Detection and Classification},
      author    = {Ali Abusaleh and Bhuvanesh Verma and Alexander Mehler},
      booktitle = {SIGARAB ArabicNLP 2026 AlexandriaX Shared Task},
      year      = {2026},
      address   = {Budapest, Hungary},
      keywords  = {Arabic NLP, dialectal Arabic, machine translation quality estimation, error span detection, sequence tagging, token classification, MARBERT, focal loss, class imbalance, MQM, low-resource NLP, spp, circlet},
      note      = {accepted}
    }

    Bhuvanesh Verma, Ali Abusaleh and Alexander Mehler.

    2026.

    TTLab at Daleel 2026: STAR-Ar, Sequence Tagging for Argument Recognition
    in Arabic
    .
    SIGARAB ArabicNLP 2026 Daleel Shared Task.

    accepted.

    BibTeX

    @inproceedings{Verma:et:al:2026:STAR,
      title     = {TTLab at Daleel 2026: STAR-Ar, Sequence Tagging for Argument Recognition
                   in Arabic},
      author    = {Bhuvanesh Verma and Ali Abusaleh and Alexander Mehler},
      booktitle = {SIGARAB ArabicNLP 2026 Daleel Shared Task},
      year      = {2026},
      address   = {Budapest, Hungary},
      keywords  = {Arabic, Argument Mining, ADU, Argument Component Identification, Argument Component Classification, Arabic-NLP, spp, circlet},
      note      = {accepted}
    }

  • New Publication at AACL-IJCNLP 2026

    We are pleased to announce the acceptance of the paper “From Early Encoding to Late Suppression: Interpreting LLMs on Character Counting Tasks” in the proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics & the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP 2026)

    Ayan Datta, Mounika Marreddy, Alexander Mehler, Zhixue Zhao and Radhika Mamidi. 2026. From Early Encoding to Late Suppression: Interpreting LLMs on Character Counting Tasks. Proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics & the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP 2026). accepted.
    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{Datta:Marreddy:Mehler:2026,
      title     = {From Early Encoding to Late Suppression: Interpreting {LLM}s on
                   Character Counting Tasks},
      author    = {Datta, Ayan and Marreddy, Mounika and Mehler, Alexander and Zhao, Zhixue
                   and Mamidi, Radhika},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association
                   for Computational Linguistics {&} the 15th International Joint
                   Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP 2026)},
      year      = {2026},
      note      = {accepted}
    }