Current Publications (2026)

A Computational Analysis of Character Archetypes in the Works of Calderón de la Barca.
Journal of Computational Literary Studies, 5(1), 2026.
Allison Keith, Antonio Rojas Castro, Kerstin Jung, Hanno Ehrlicher and Sebastian Padó.
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AmchiBias: Measuring Stereotypical Bias in Goan Identity Groups with a Minimal Pair Dataset in English and Konkani.
In: Proceedings of the ACL StereACuLT workshop. San Diego, CA, 2026.
Michelle Barbosa, Sebastian Padó and Franziska Weeber.
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Beyond Marginal Distributions: A Framework to Evaluate the Representativeness of Demographic-Aligned LLMs.
In: Findings of ACL. 2026.
Tristan Williams, Franziska Weeber, Sebastian Padó and Alan Akbik.
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Biasing a Translation Model Toward Portuguese Variants.
In: Proceedings of PROPOR. Salvador, Brazil, 2026.
Catarina Costa and Sebastian Padó.
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Comparing and Modeling Argumentation in German Political Communication across Arenas.
In: Proceedings of KONVENS. Hamburg, Germany, 2026.
Nina Vikhrova, Johannes Kühling, Sebastian Haunss and Sebastian Padó.
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Comparing Architectures for Supervised Political Scaling.
In: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences. 2026.
Anna Golub and Sebastian Padó.
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Democratizing News Recommenders: Modeling Multiple Perspectives for News Candidate Generation with VQ-VAE.
In: Proceedings of FaCCT. Montreal, Canada, 2026.
Hardy Hardy, Sebastian Padó, Amelie Wuehrl and Tanise Ceron.
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Diverging Transformer Predictions for Human Sentence Processing: A Comprehensive Analysis of Agreement Attraction Effects.
In: Proceedings of EMNLP. Budapest, Hungary, 2026.
Titus von der Malsburg and Sebastian Padó.
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Do Political Opinions Transfer Between Western Languages? An Analysis of Unaligned and Aligned Multilingual LLMs.
In: Proceedings of EACL. Rabat, Morocco, 2026.
Franziska Weeber, Tanise Ceron and Sebastian Padó.
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Effects of Answer Format Variation on Gender Bias in Large Language Models.
In: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences. 2026.
Ksenia Merzlyakova, Sebastian Padó and Franziska Weeber.
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Finding Sense in Nonsense with Generated Contexts: Perspectives from Humans and Language Models.
In: Proceedings of STARSEM. San Diego, 2026. Honorable mention for best paper.
Katrina Olsen and Sebastian Padó.
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Gaze Behavior in Visual World Experiments Can be Modeled With Off-the-shelf Language-Vision Encoders.
2026. Manuscript.
Rahul Murali Shankar, Titus von der Malsburg and Sebastian Padó.
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Investigating features of the gracioso of Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
Revista de Humanidades Digitales, 11, 2026.
Allison Keith, Antonio Rojas-Castro, Hanno Ehrlicher and Sebastian Padó.
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One Persona, Many Cues, Different Results: How Sociodemographic Cues Impact LLM Personalization.
In: Proceedings of ACL. San Diego, CA, 2026.
Franziska Weeber, Vera Neplenbroek, Jan Batzner and Sebastian Padó.
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Similar, but why? A Toolkit for Explaining Text Similarity.
In: Proceedings of the EACL Demonstration Session. Rabat, Morocco, 2026.
Juri Opitz, Lucas Möller, Andrianos Michail, Sebastian Padó and Simon Clematide.
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Social Bias or Social Desirability? Comparing Factorial Survey Experiments for Humans and Large Language Models.
2026. Manuscript.
Franziska Weeber, Thomas Hinz, Konstantin Mozer, Sam Moritz Sievers, Alan Akbik and Sebastian Padó.
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Structuring the Space of Perspectives.
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026. Accepted for publication
Agnese Daffara, Sebastian Padó and Tanise Ceron.
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Testing Language Model Sensitivity to Object-Anaphoric Accessibility: Persian ye(k) and English indefinite this.
In: Proceedings of the 6th Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop. Budapest, Hungary, 2026.
Nikta Yekrang Safakar and Sebastian Padó.
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Understanding the Impact of Linguistic Realization Choices on LLM Stance with Causal Tracing.
In: Proceedings of KONVENS. Hamburg, Germany, 2026.
Langchen Huang, Sebastian Padó and Franziska Weeber.
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When Cross-Lingual Consistency Is Not Enough: Diagnostics for Low-Resource Political Actor Portrayal.
In: Proceedings of the 6th Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop. Budapest, Hungary, 2026.
Abdul Razaq Vahidi and Sebastian Padó.
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