EMNLP 2026 Main

• A Robust Evaluation of Probe Robustness: Lessons for Reliable OOD Uncertainty Quantification, Joe Stacey, Hadas Orgad, Kentaro Inui, Benjamin Heinzerling, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, EMNLP2026.  

• Probing Diagram Representations in Large Vision-Language Models,Haruto Yoshida, Keito Kudo, Yoichi Aoki, Ryota Tanaka, Itsumi Saito, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Kentaro Inui, EMNLP2026. 📄 Paper  

• Jais 2: A Family of Arabic-Centric Open Large Language Models, Mohamed Anwar, Abed Alhakim Freihat, George Ibrahim, Mostafa Awad, Abdelrahman Sadallah, Gurpreet Gosal, Gokulakrishnan Ramakrishnan, Sarath Chandran, Biswajit Mishra, Rituraj Joshi, Ahmed Frikha, Etienne Goffinet, Abhishek Maiti, Ali El Filali, Sarah AlBarri, Samujjwal Ghosh, Rahul Pal, Parvez Mullah, Awantika Shukla, Sajid siddiki, Samta Kamboj, Onkar Pandit, Sunil Kumar Sahu, AbdelRahman Elbadawy, Amr Mohamed, Ahmad Chamma, Evan Dufraisse, Abdelaziz Bounhar, Dani Bouch, Hadi Abdine, Guokan Shang, Fajri Koto, Yuxia Wang, Zhuohan Xie, Ali Mekky, Rania Elbadry, Sarfraz Ahmad, Momina Ahsan, Omar El Herraoui, Daniil Orel, Hasan Iqbal, Kareem Elzeky, Mervat Abassy, Kareem Elozeiri, Saadeldine Eletter, Farah Atif, Nurdaulet Mukhituly, Haonan Li, Xudong Han, Aaryamonvikram Singh, Zainul Abedien Ahmed Quraishi, Neha Sengupta, Larry Murray, Avraham Sheinin, Joel Hestness, Natalia Vassilieva, Hector Xuguang Ren, Zhengzhong Liu, Michalis Vazirgiannis, Preslav Nakov, EMNLP2026.  

• Weakening Neurons: An Input-Output Functionality in Transformers with Outsize Influence, Sebastian Gerstner, Hilal AlQuabeh, Kentaro Inui, Hinrich Schuetze, EMNLP2026.  

EMNLP 2026 Findings

• Can Dialects Be Steered Like Languages? Sparse Neurons and Distributed Directions in Arabic LLMs, Kareem Elozeiri, Mervat Abassy, Omar Kallas, Fahim Dalvi, Preslav Nakov, Kentaro Inui, Nadir Durrani, EMNLP2026 Findings.  📄 Paper

• LITERARYBIGFIVE: Author-Personalized Text Generation in a Unified Interpretable Space, Jinghui Zhang, Lang Gao, Ao Li, Mingzhe Li, Ruihong Zeng, Zirui Song, Kentaro Inui, Xiuying Chen, EMNLP2026 Findings.  

• Sparse Long Memory and Transition Bottlenecks Shape Positional Recall in Mamba Language Models, Muhammad Cendekia Airlangga, Hilal AlQuabeh, Munachiso Samuel Nwadike, Kentaro Inui, EMNLP2026 Findings.  

EMNLP 2026 Demo

• CAT: A CounterArgument Tutoring System based on Logical Structure Analysis, Wenzhi Wang, Thiemo Wambsganss, Chenyang Wang, Paul Reisert, Léane Wettstein, Katja Pott, Kenshi Yamaguchi, Machi Shimmei, Roman Rietsche, Surawat Pothong, Naoya Inoue, Kentaro Inui, EMNLP2026 Demo.