Stanford linguists at EACL 2026

The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026) was held in Rabat, Morocco, from March 24–29, 2026. The conference featured the work of several Stanford linguists:

• Jasper Jian and Chris Manning: “Humans and transformer LMs: Abstraction drives language learning” (talk)
• Laya Iyer, Pranav Somani, Alice Guo, Dan Jurafsky and Chen Shani: "Beyond Tokens: Concept-Level Training Objectives for LLMs" (poster)
• Mirac Suzgun, Mert Yuksekgonul, Federico Bianchi, Dan Jurafsky, and James Zou: "Dynamic Cheatsheet: Test-Time Learning with Adaptive Memory" (talk)

In addition, Jasper and Chris's paper received the conference's Best Paper Award. Congratulations!