We attended ACL 2026, the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, held from July 2–7 in San Diego, California, USA.
We took part in several events throughout the conference, with Guido Ivetta representing Fundación Vía Libre.
Guido Ivetta presented the paper “Adaptive Data Collection for Latin-American Community-sourced Evaluation of Stereotypes” (LACES),” which explores the evaluation of large language models, bias, and collaborative methodologies for dataset creation.
The paper was co-authored by Guido Ivetta, Pietro Palombini, Sofia Martinelli, Marcos J. Gomez, M. Emilia Echeveste, Sunipa Dev, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, and Luciana Benotti.
We also presented the paper’s poster during the Findings poster session at the main conference.
Co-author Vinodkumar Prabhakaran attended the session.
On July 3, we gave an oral presentation of the paper at the StereACuLT Workshop (Stereotypes Across Cultures in Language Technologies). This inaugural workshop brought together researchers studying stereotypes in language technologies from an intercultural perspective, fostering approaches to develop evaluation methods and mitigation strategies that are sensitive to diverse cultural contexts.
We also participated in the C3NLP Workshop (Cross-Cultural Considerations in Natural Language Processing). Guido Ivetta presented the paper, while Luciana Benotti served on the organizing committee and joined the event remotely.
The workshop focused on the relationship between culture and natural language processing (NLP), examining how language models reflect cultural values, biases, and context-specific characteristics. It also promoted interdisciplinary approaches to building language technologies that are more inclusive, representative, and responsive to cultural diversity.
Co-author Pietro Palombini was also present.
During the main conference, we also organized a Birds of a Feather (BoF) discussion and networking session together with Alberto Testoni, titled “Who Gets Left Out? Identity, Culture, and Power in NLP Systems.”
In addition, we gave an oral presentation of the paper at the Student Research Workshop, held as part of ACL 2026. This workshop supports researchers at different stages of their academic careers by providing opportunities to present their work, engage with the international research community, and receive mentorship and expert feedback.
A recording of the presentation is available.