EMNLP 2026 publications
14 Sep 2026

Papers at EMNLP 2026 (October 24-29, Budapest, Hungary).

• AI translation of literary texts is “fine”, but readers still prefer human translations (Findings)

COLM 2026 publications
12 Jul 2026

Papers at COLM 2026 (October 6-9, San Francisco, CA).

• Hallucination Self-Play: Bootstrapping Reinforced Detector via Evolved Generator

Linguistics colloquium with Marzena
09 Jul 2026

Marzena is giving a talk about her work on characterizing AI in writing as part of the linguistics colloquium: https://www.sfu.ca/linguistics/events/2026/Karpinska.html

ACL 2026 publications
02 Jul 2026

Papers at ACL 2026 (San Diego, CA).

• Sun July 5 14:00-15:30 Find Your Optimal Teacher: Personalized Data Synthesis via Router-Guided Multi-Teacher Distillation - (Oral Session B: Language Models 2, Harbor H-I)
• Sun July 5 16:00-17:30 AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed - (Oral Session C: Computational social science, cultural analytics, and NLP for social good 2, Harbor G)
• Sun July 5 16:00-17:30 Quantifying the robustness of retrieval-augmented language models against spurious features in grounding data - (Poster Session C-90, Coronado)
• Mon July 6 18:00-19:30 PR-XAI: PageRank-Based Feature Attribution for Transformers - (Virtual Presentations 4)

New NLP faculty at SFU
06 Apr 2026

We are happy to welcome Marzena Karpinska and Linyi Li to the SFU natural language group.