Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2026

PUBLISHEDOctober 22, 2026

Apple is presenting new research at the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), taking place October 24–29 in Budapest, Hungary. EMNLP focuses on research surrounding the science and technology of spoken language processing. Below is an overview of Apple’s participation at EMNLP 2026.

Stop by the Apple booth #13 during exhibition hours (all times local to Budapest):

  • Sunday, October 25: 10:00–18:00
  • Monday, October 26: 08:30–18:15
  • Tuesday, October 27: 08:30–16:00

Schedule

Sunday, October 25

11:00 – 12:30
Poster
Poster Session A
Hall H
MoEs Are Stronger than You Think: Hyper-Parallel Inference Scaling with RoEs
Soheil Zibakhsh (University of California San Diego), Mohammad Samragh Razlighi, Kumari Nishu, Lauren Hannah, Arnav Kundu, Minsik Cho
8230-FIND

Monday, October 26

11:00 – 12:30
Poster
Poster Session D
Hall H
Plan or Retrieve First? A Scale Study of Tool Discovery Architectures
Mingfei Zhang, Amit Surana, Riaz Majid, Chauncey Wang, Michael Xu
78-IND
PROOF-Gen: From Optimized Data to Better Distillation
Anh Ta, Jason Zhu, Shahin Shayandeh
656-IND

Tuesday, October 27

11:00 – 12:30
Poster
Poster Session G
Hall H
DiscoSign: Discourse-Aware Text to Sign Language Gloss Translation
Vassilis Baltatzis, Mert Inan (Northeastern University), Connor Gillis, Raja Kushalnagar (Gallaudet University), Lorna Quandt (Gallaudet University), Leah Findlater, Colin Lea
504-MAIN
Large Language Models for Machine Translation Quality Annotation: Humans and Models Are Both Challenged
Hala Almaghout, Christian Federmann, Qin Gao
2212-FIND

Wednesday, October 28

11:00 – 12:30
Workshop
6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (associated with SIGTYP) (MRL) 2026
Room F3
Poster
mAceReason-Math: A Dataset of High-quality Multilingual Math Problems Ready for RLVR
Konstantin Dobler (Hasso Plattner Institute), Simon Lehnerer, Federico Scozzafava, Jonathan Janke, Mohamed Ali
TBA

Thursday, October 29

8:45 – 17:45
Workshop
Second Workshop on REsearch on Agent Language Models (REALM) 2026
Room P1
Poster
Shared Selective Persistent Memory for Agentic LLM Systems
Sanjana Pedada, Aditya Dhavala, Neelraj Patil
TBA
9:00 – 17:30
Workshop
Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP (BlackBoxNLP) 2026
Room P3
Poster
On The Effectiveness-Fluency Trade-Off In LLM Conditioning: A Systematic Study
Iuri Macocco (Universitat Pompeu Fabra / ICREA), Pau Rodriguez, Arno Blaas, Luca Zappella, Marco Baroni (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Xavier Suau
TBA
13:30 – 14:45
Workshop
Pluralistic AI & NLP: Diversity-aware, Sociotechnical, Responsible Alignment (PANDORA) 2026
Room G13-14
Poster
Metric-Dependent Annotation Saturation for Learning from Label Distributions
Guneet Kohli
TBA

Papers

Acknowledgements

Reviewer

Stephan Peitz

Workshop Co-Organizer

Richard Bai

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