Almawave presents two research papers at EACL 2026

From March 24 to 29, the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026) will be held in Rabat, Morocco.
As the leading European conference in the field of computational linguistics, EACL welcomes European and international researchers exploring a wide range of research areas related to computational approaches to natural language.

Almawave will be one of the highlights of the event with Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Senior Research Scientist at Almawave and Associate Professor at the University of Tor Vergata, who, together with his team, will present two scientific papers:

• In the first paper, “Can activation steering support language-agnostic reasoning in language models? A study on syllogistic inferences” (Gabriele Maraia, Leonardo Ranaldi, Marco Valentino, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto), a new activation steering technique will be presented to improve the logical reasoning of Large Language Models. The approach, developed to overcome the models’ tendency to confuse plausibility with logical validity, achieves improvements in formal reasoning accuracy of up to +36%, with results that remain effective even in multilingual contexts.
• The second paper, “Lexical Popularity: Quantifying the Impact of Pre-training for LLM Performance” (Elena Sofia Ruzzetti, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Tommaso Caselli), provides an in-depth analysis of how LLMs process language, investigating whether models have developed genuine linguistic understanding or primarily rely on lexical patterns learned during pre-training.

Almawave reaffirms its commitment to advanced Artificial Intelligence research, contributing to the development of linguistic models that are more ethical, transparent, and safe.