NaCTeM at ACL 2026: 8 Papers Accepted, Including 5 in the Main Conference

2026-04-19

The National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) is pleased to announce that our researchers and collaborators have had 8 papers accepted to ACL 2026, including 5 papers in the Main Conference and 3 papers in Findings.

These accepted papers reflect NaCTeM's broad research contributions across multilingual and multimodal financial large language models, financial misinformation detection, verifiable reasoning, Arabic financial and Shari’ah-compliant reasoning, mechanistic interpretability and multi-agent systems.

ACL 2026 Main Conference

1. MultiFinBen: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Multilingual and Multimodal Financial Application
Authors: Xueqing Peng, Lingfei Qian, Yan Wang, Ruoyu Xiang, Yueru He, Yang Ren, Mingyang Jiang, Vincent Jim Zhang, Yuqing Guo, Jeff Zhao, Huan He, Yi Han, Yun Feng, Yuechen Jiang, Yupeng Cao, Haohang Li, Yangyang Yu, Xiaoyu Wang, Penglei Gao, Shengyuan Lin, Keyi Wang, Shanshan Yang, Yilun Zhao, Zhiwei Liu, Peng Lu, Jerry Huang, Suyuchen Wang, Triantafillos Papadopoulos, Polydoros Giannouris, Efstathia Soufleri, Nuo Chen, Zhiyang Deng, Heming Fu, Yijia Zhao, Mingquan Lin, Meikang Qiu, Kaleb E. Smith, Arman Cohan, Xiao-Yang Liu, Jimin Huang, Guojun Xiong, Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Xi Chen, Junichi Tsujii, Jian-Yun Nie, Sophia Ananiadou, Qianqian Xie

2. All That Glisters Is Not Gold: A Benchmark for Reference-Free Counterfactual Financial Misinformation Detection
Authors: Yuechen Jiang, Zhiwei Liu, Yupeng Cao, Yueru He, Ziyang Xu, Chen Xu, Zhiyang Deng, Prayag Tiwari, Xi Chen, Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Jimin Huang, Junichi Tsujii, Sophia Ananiadou

3. FinChain: A Symbolic Benchmark for Verifiable Chain-of-Thought Financial Reasoning
Authors: Zhuohan Xie, Daniil Orel, Rushil Thareja, Dhruv Sahnan, Hachem Madmoun, Fan Zhang, Debopriyo Banerjee, Georgi Nenkov Georgiev, Xueqing Peng, Lingfei Qian, Jimin Huang, Jinyan Su, Aaryamonvikram Singh, Rui Xing, Rania Elbadry, Chen Xu, Haonan Li, Fajri Koto, Ivan Koychev, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Yuxia Wang, Salem Lahlou, Veselin Stoyanov, Sophia Ananiadou, Preslav Nakov

4. SAHM (سهم): A Benchmark for Arabic Financial and Shari’ah-Compliant Reasoning
Authors: Rania Elbadry, Sarfraz Ahmad, Ahmed Heakl, Dani Bouch, Momina Ahsan, Muhra AlMahri, Marwa Elsaid Khalil, Yuxia Wang, Salem Lahlou, Sophia Ananiadou, Veselin Stoyanov, Jimin Huang, Xueqing Peng, Preslav Nakov, Zhuohan Xie

5. The Illusion of Specialization: Unveiling the Domain-Invariant "Standing Committee" in Mixture-of-Experts Models
Authors: Yan Wang, Yitao Xu, Nanhan Shen, Jinyan Su, Jimin Huang, Zining Zhu

ACL 2026 Findings

6. Same Claim, Different Judgment: Benchmarking Scenario-Induced Bias in Multilingual Financial Misinformation Detection
Authors: Zhiwei Liu, Yupeng Cao, Yuechen Jiang, Mohsinul Kabir, Polydoros Giannouris, Chen Xu, Ziyang Xu, Tianlei Zhu, Md. Tariquzzaman, Triantafillos Papadopoulos, Yan Wang, Lingfei Qian, Xueqing Peng, Zhuohan Xie, Ye Yuan, Saeed Almheiri, Abdulrazzaq Alnajjar, Ming-Bin Chen, Harry Stuart, Paul Thompson, Prayag Tiwari, Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Xue Liu, Jimin Huang, Sophia Ananiadou

7. HiRAS: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for Paper-to-Code Generation and Execution
Authors: Hanhua Hong, Yizhi LI, Jiaoyan Chen, Sophia Ananiadou, Xiaoli Li, Jung-jae Kim, Chenghua Lin

8. Locate, Steer, and Improve: A Practical Survey of Actionable Mechanistic Interpretability in Large Language Models
Authors: Hengyuan Zhang, Zhihao Zhang, Ercong Nie, Mingyang Wang, Zunhai Su, Yiwei Wang, Qianli Wang, Shuzhou Yuan, Xufeng Duan, Qibo Xue, Zeping Yu, Chenming Shang, Xiao Liang, Jing Xiong, Hui Shen, Chaofan Tao, Zhengwu Liu, Senjie Jin, Zhiheng Xi, Dongdong Zhang, Sophia Ananiadou, Tao Gui, Ruobing Xie, Hayden Kwok-Hay So, Hinrich Schuetze, Xuanjing Huang, Qi Zhang, Ngai Wong

We warmly congratulate all authors and collaborators on these achievements and look forward to ACL 2026 in San Diego, July 2–7, 2026.