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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}
}

New publication in the proceedings of SuB 30:

The following paper has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Special Session: Philosophical and Linguistic Approaches to Negation (PhilLingNeg).

Andy Lücking, Leon Hammerla and Alexander Mehler. 2026. Not every quantifier can be negated. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 30:697–714.
BibTeX 
@article{Luecking:Hammerla:Mehler:2026,
  doi       = {10.18148/SUB/2026.V30.1363},
  url       = {https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/1363},
  author    = {{L\"{u}cking, Andy} and {Hammerla, Leon} and {Mehler, Alexander}},
  language  = {en},
  title     = {Not every quantifier can be negated},
  journal   = {Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung},
  volume    = {30},
  issue     = {Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung,  Vol. 30 (2026): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 30},
  pages     = {697--714},
  publisher = {Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung},
  year      = {2026},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
}