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A photo of Christopher from the UF Data Studio standing next to a poster for his paper about parsing for the Mixtec Codices of Precolonial and Early Colonial Mesoamerica.

Academic Highlights From ACL26, San Diego

A blogpost highlighting workshops, keynotes, addresses, and papers on RAG and LLM QA from ACL26.

Learn + Act and Apply + Prepare

How we can learn from the past, act and apply in the present, and prepare for the future.

Figure 1 from Ranjan et al., showing Enactor's transformer architecture for multi-actor interaction modeling and closed-loop trajectory generation.

Enactor — Surrogate World Models for Traffic Intersections

A blogpost on Enactor, a transformer-based surrogate world model that learns realistic vehicle dynamics at signalized intersections from SUMO microsimulation data.

Future Looking Statements System

Binary Classification of Forward-Looking Statements

Using Forward-Looking Statements to Forecast the Stock Price

Figure 1 from Rudman et al. (ACL 2026), showing a VLM hallucinating extra waterlilies when the prompt overstates the count.

When VLMs Trust the Prompt Over the Image

A short blogpost about an ACL 2026 paper on prompt-induced hallucination in vision–language models, and how ablating a few attention heads can restore visual grounding.

TOLSA-M dimension called Epistemic

How confident are you?

Detecting hedge words to measure certainty in critical domains like medicine, finance, and engineerin

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