*SEM 2026 Program
Room: Harbor A
Note: Except for the joint Session with SemEval at 9 am, which will be in Harbor B.
| Pacific Time | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Session 1: Opening Remarks + Keynote Talk 1 (shared with SemEval) |
1. SemEval + *Sem Opening Remarks (incl. Best Paper Award) 2. Keynote Talk 1: Alex Warstadt (UC San Diego) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 12:15 | Session 2: Oral Talks (10min talk + 2min QA) |
1. The LSCD Benchmark: a Testbed for Diachronic Word Meaning Tasks 2. HistoryBankQA: Multilingual Temporal Question Answering on Historical Events 3. Syntactic Priming in Few-Shot Learning: How Demonstration Structure Shapes LLM Performance 4. Understanding the Linguistic Cues Behind Stance Detection 5. *-PLUIE: Personalizable metric with LLm Used for Improved Evaluation 6. Virtual Oral Talk: Can You Be More Explicit? A Task and Dataset on Explicitations of Implicit Meaning |
| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session 3: Keynote Talk 2 (50 min talk + 10 min QA) + Best Paper Talks (10 min talks + 4 min QA) |
1. Keynote Talk 2: Dallas Card (University of Michigan) 2. Best Paper Honorable Mention: Finding Sense in Nonsense with Generated Contexts: Perspectives from Humans and Language Models 3. Best Paper Winner: Virtual Oral Talk: Can a Remedy Find a Researcher? Exploring Sensitivity to Semantic Violations in Italian BabyLMs |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Session 4: In-person Posters | In-Person Posters |
Virtual Poster Session
Virtual Poster Session: 5 AM pacific time/8 AM ET/ Afternoon in Europe/ Evening and night in Asia