3 papers
cs.CL2026
Aligning Implied Statements for Implicit Hate Speech Generalizability with Context-Bounded Semi-hard Negative Mining
Wicaksono Leksono Muhamad, Yunita Sari
Classifying implicit hate speech remains a challenge, as intent is often masked through insinuation and context rather than explicit slurs. Prior supervised contrastive approaches…
cs.CL2026
Improving Lexical Difficulty Prediction with Context-Aligned Contrastive Learning and Ridge Ensembling
Wicaksono Leksono Muhamad, Joanito Agili Lopo, Tsamarah Rana Nugraha +2
Lexical difficulty prediction is a fundamental problem in language learning and readability assessment, requiring models to estimate word difficulty across different first-language…
cs.CL2026
ITLC at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Normalization and Deterministic Parsing for Formal Reasoning in LLMs
Wicaksono Leksono Muhamad, Joanito Agili Lopo, Tack Hwa Wong +2
Large language models suffer from content effects in reasoning tasks, particularly in multi-lingual contexts. We introduce a novel method that reduces these biases through explicit…