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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Neural POS Tagging for the Low-Resource Saraiki

The dataset, evaluation setup, and baseline results introduced in this work provide a benchmark for future research on Saraiki NLP and low-resource sequence labeling.

Usman Nawaz, Muhammad Junaid Iqbal, M. Asaf et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CSWBench: Evaluating Context-Sensitive Code-Switching in Creative Writing

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated multilingual capabilities across diverse language generation and understanding tasks. Yet effective code-switching requires more than multilingual proficiency: models must decide when, where, and why to switch languages in ways that fit the surrounding context. This contex...

Zewen Jiang, Yahan Li, Chenlu Guo et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Anuvani-LID: Robust and Calibrated Spoken Language Identification for Indian Languages

Every multilingual speech pipeline begins with a language decision, an error there propagates silently through recognition, translation and routing. In India it spans 22 scheduled languages across four language families, heard over short, noisy, narrowband and code-mixed audio. Foundational speech models increasingly p...

Stephen Fernandes, N. Choudhary · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Scaling Multilingual Safety and Reasoning Evaluation through Reasoning-Guided Translation

This work introduces a reasoning-guided translation framework for constructing multilingual evaluations designed to preserve the structure and intended meaning of diverse benchmark tasks, and develops a source-aligned evaluation collection spanning seven safety, conversational, and mathematical reasoning resources acro...

Zahraa Al Sahili, I. Patras, Matthew Purver · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

What Makes a Social Agent's Interactions Effective? Learning from Verifiable Outcomes in Paired Worlds

Effective social interaction requires more than fluent responses: agents must reach plans that fit the participants'needs and circumstances. Existing evaluations of social agents mainly rely on LLM judges that rate the conversation, without checking the resulting plan. We introduce HICO-Bench, a benchmark of 180 everyd...

Cai-Xin Kang, Ke Wang, Yu-Chuan Wu et al. · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When Occupation-derived Skills Don't Help: On the Limits of Skill-Augmented Career Path Prediction

Skills are widely assumed to play a central role in career transitions, motivating their use in career path prediction (CPP) systems. In this work, we critically examine whether explicit skill representations provide complementary signal beyond text-based job representations. We evaluate multiple strategies for incorpo...

Ege S\"ualp, Elena Senger, Toine Bogers et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

TreeSpark: Learning to Draft the Trees You Verify for Speculative Decoding

TreeSpark is introduced, a unified training and inference framework extending the semi-autoregressive DSpark architecture that constructs parent-conditioned candidate trees from one backbone pass and replays their expansion, pruning, and budgeted packing during training.

Jihao Zhao, Qian-Yu Jiang, Shuai-Shuai Zu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sparse Autoencoders for Mechanistic Interpretability in NLP: A Critical Survey of Recoverability, Interpretability, and Utility

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a promising approach to mechanistic interpretability by decomposing language-model activations into sparse, potentially interpretable features. However, differences in design assumptions, evaluation objectives, and experimental settings complicate conclusions about their effec...

Salima Lamsiyah, Adelaide Danilov, Oleksandr Marchenko Breneur et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Why Generate a Click? Plug-in Decision Heads for Web Agents

Web agents built on vision language models decide every action by generating text such as click(12), although most of that text encodes a choice among a few action types and a few dozen marked elements. We read these choices directly from the hidden states that the generator computes while it reads the goal and the scr...

Chengguang Gan, Yunhao Liang, Hanjun Wei et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Language Exposure Matters: Distribution and Order in Multilingual BabyLM Pre-training

We investigate two aspects of multilingual pre-training with limited data, namely how language exposure is distributed across English, Dutch, and Chinese, and how that exposure is ordered during training. In particular, we compare balanced multilingual exposure to language-dominant exposure, where one language is expos...

JiWoo Hwang, Lukas Edman, Alexander Fraser · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Open access Oct 2026

AFCS: Atomic-Fact-Conditioned Synthesis for Factual Knowledge Pretraining

AFCS (Atomic-Fact-Conditioned Synthesis), a pipeline that first extracts source-supported atomic facts and then uses each retained fact to drive generation, outperforms WRAP and Nemotron-CC on SimpleQA, SimpleQA Verified, PopQA, and HotpotQA.

Yun-Hao Wang, Feng Zhang, Ting-Ting Yu et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 22, 2026

Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations

Flint-interactive gives AI agents a language for creating interactive visualizations. Click a chart, filter data, highlight related content, and explore beyond the view the author originally chose. The post Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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