Miles Gilberti, Shane Storks, and Huteng Dai at ACL 2026

 

 

With nearly 50 U-M affiliated participants, U-M was very well represented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, held in San Diego from July 2nd to July 7th, 2026.

For the U-M presenters without a formal affiliation with Linguistics, see this news story from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Presentations with a direct U-M Linguistics affiliation include those listed below.

Shunjie Wang presents his research at ACL 2026
  • "Discovering Properties of Inflectional Morphology in Neural Emergent Communication"
    Authors: Miles Gilberti (U-M undergraduate student), Shane Storks (U-M postdoc), Huteng Dai (U-M Linguistics faculty) 
  • "Reduplication as an Inductive Bias in Pre-pretrained Language Models"
    Author: Shunjie Wang (U-M Linguistics graduate student)
  • “PRiSM: Benchmarking Phone Realization in Speech Models”
    Including as author Jian Zhu (2022 U-M Linguistics Ph.D. alum)
  • “Understanding In-Context Learning Beyond Transformers: An Investigation of State Space and Hybrid Architectures”
    Including as author Jian Zhu (2022 U-M Linguistics Ph.D. alum)
  • “POWSM: A Phonetic Open Whisper-Style Speech Foundation Model”
    Including as author Jian Zhu (2022 U-M Linguistics Ph.D. alum)