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The team has presented the work at the 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗹-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗖𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝗴𝗼 on 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟰𝘁𝗵. 🚀 📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/html/2604.21... 💻 Code: github.com/UKPLab/semev... #SemEval2026 #ACL2026 #NLP #UKPLab #Research #AI

UKP_Psycontrol at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Modeling Valence and Arousal Dynamics from Text arxiv.org

The team has presented the work at the 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗹-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗖𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝗴𝗼 on 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟰𝘁𝗵. 🚀 📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/html/2604.21... 💻 Code: github.com/UKPLab/semev... #SemEval2026 #ACL2026 #NLP #UKPLab #Research #AI

GitHub - UKPLab/semeval26_valence_arousal_from_text: System for SemEval-2026 Task 2, which focuses on modeling current affect and short-term affective change in chronologically ordered user-generated texts. github.com

▸ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Jonathan Tonglet, Tinne Tuytelaars, Marie-Francine Moens, Iryna Gurevych arxiv.org/abs/2502.20503

Protecting multimodal large language models against misleading visualizations arxiv.org

▸ 𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲? 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Jonathan Tonglet, Jan Zimny, Tinne Tuytelaars, Iryna Gurevych arxiv.org/abs/2508.21675

Is this chart lying to me? Automating the detection of misleading visualizations arxiv.org

▸ 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 Irina Bigoulaeva, Jonas R., Subhabrata Dutta, Iryna Gurevych arxiv.org/abs/2602.07930

Patches of Nonlinearity: Instruction Vectors in Large Language Models arxiv.org

▸ 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗖𝗼𝗤𝗔: 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿-𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 Tim Baumgärtner, Iryna Gurevych arxiv.org/abs/2601.12910

SciCoQA: Quality Assurance for Scientific Paper--Code Alignment arxiv.org

🎓 𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯 We were thrilled to welcome our long-term collaborator, co-supervisor of PhD students and close colleague Prof. Preslav Nakov, Professor and Department Chair for #NLP at the #MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi, for an invited talk at the UKP Lab in #TUDarmstadt.