08:00 – 09.00

Registration, Arrival of participants

Hubei Hotel Lobby

（湖北大厦 大堂）

09:00 – 09:30

Welcoming Speech by Honorary Chair Prof. Minggang Gan,

General Chair Prof. Haizhou Li,

General Chair Prof. Yu Weng

Dong Hu Hall（东湖厅）

09:30

Photo Session

Dong Hu Hall（东湖厅）

09:40 – 10.30

IALP 2026 Keynote Session

Teaching LLMs to Listen and Speak

by Prof Hung-yi Lee,

National Taiwan University

Dong Hu Hall（东湖厅）

10:30-11:00

Tea Break

11:00 – 11:50

IALP 2026 Keynote Session

Beyond Standard Mandarin: Singapore Mandarin, Language Variation, and Asian Language Processing

by Prof Jingxia Lin,

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Dong Hu Hall（东湖厅）

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch at Dan Jiang Kou Hall（丹江口厅）

13:30 – 15:00

Parallel Session 1

Session 1 A: Qing Jiang Hall（清江厅）

Session 1 B: Liang Zi Hu Hall（梁子湖厅）

15:00 – 16:30

Parallel Session 2

Session 2 A: Qing Jiang Hall（清江厅）

Session 2 B: Liang Zi Hu Hall（梁子湖厅）

16:30 – 16:45

Tea Break

16:45 – 18:05

Parallel Session 3

Session 3 A: Qing Jiang Hall（清江厅）

Session 3 B: Liang Zi Hu Hall（梁子湖厅）

19:00 – 20:30

Dinner Performances and COLIPS Activities

Hubei Hotel and Shangri-La Hotel

09:00 – 10.20

Session 4

San Xia Hall（三峡厅）

10:20 – 10:35

Tea Break

10:35 – 11:55

Session 5

San Xia Hall（三峡厅）

11:55 -12:10

IALP26 Handing Over Ceremony

San Xia Hall（三峡厅）

12:10 – 13:30

Lunch at Dan Jiang Kou Hall（丹江口厅）

13:30 – 23:00

End of Conference

42

Investigating Cross-Lingual Knowledge Editing via In-Context Learning for Chinese Ethnic Languages

Yijun Xie; Yubo Chen; Ran He; Minggang Gan

43

Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for Low-Resource Manchu-Chinese Classical Text Translation

Siyu Yan; Yue Zhao; Qinglong Zhang; Jing Yu; Yu Weng

44

From Tool Results to User Answers: Benchmarking Faithful Multilingual Realization in LLM Agents

Chengyuan Jin; Zhiwei Yang; Shizhu He; Kang Liu; Jun Zhao; Yubo Chen

53

Reliability-aware Adaptive Multimodal Representation Learning for Robust Sentiment Analysis

Feng Pan; Qiyun Zhou; Weitong Guo; Hongwu Yang

98

TruthLens: An End-to-End System for Explainable Cross-Modal Misinformation Assessment

Zong Wei Glenn Lim; Yi Zhen Cheng; Chun Yuan Cheng; Nathaniel Liong; Kelvin Han; Rong Tong; Ian McLoughlin

104

Impact of Speech Separation on Clustering-Based Speaker Diarization: Trade-Offs and Insights

Tran The Anh; Yihao Wu; Rendong Pi; Wei Rao; Eng Siong Chng

106

BirdDiar-XC: A Benchmark Dataset for Bird Diarization in the Wild

Rendong Pi; Yihao Wu; Pengbo Xiao; Wei Rao; Eng-Siong Chng; Xiang Yu

108

A Hierarchical Dynamic Neural Code for Mandarin Speech Comprehension

Xuanda Chen, Mi Tang, Siqi Cai, Haizhou Li

29

A Study on Two Special Types of Retained-Object Constructions in Modern Chinese “Ba” Sentences

Jingyang Zhang; Jinghan Zeng

31

Mobile CALL for Mandarin Neutral Tone in Tibetan Primary Schools

Yajing Ning; Sifu Zhang; Weitong Guo; Zhen Bai; Hongwu Yang

49

Prosodic Variation in Mandarin Parental Infant-Directed Speech During Picture Book Reading

Lei Qian; Jian Gong

60

Acoustic and Perceptual Evidence for Mandarin Phonetic Distance Across Dialect Boundaries

He Yi; Gaowu Wang

61

A Comparative Study on LLM and Human Metaphor Understanding

Wenan Chen; Wenhui Sun; Jiani Fu; Gaowu Wang

62

Effects of Chengdu-Mandarin Bidialectal Experience on Mandarin Alveolar Retroflex Perception and Lexical Processing

Junlin Huang; Gaowu Wang

66

From Concrete Object to Lightweight Companionship: A Corpus-Based Study of 搭子 and the X-搭子 Construction in Chinese

Jing Xuan Li

95

Contact-Induced Evolution of Middle Chinese Wei Initials in the Shanyang Dialect of Southern Shaanxi

Hongyang Lin

4

SWPC-BNF: From Statistical Memory to Structural Reasoning in Large Language Models

Li Weigang; João Paulo Vieira Costa; Ana Sofia Schweizer Silvestre

24

FairHire: A Fairness Evaluation Framework for Large Language Models in Resume Assessment

Jiarong Sun; Shijing Si

28

MedRAT: Tree-Based Local Auditing for Multi-Agent Medical Reasoning

Yu Xin; Yubo Chen; Ge Gao; Jingbo Sun; Bo Chen; Xiaobing Zhao

37

MUG: From Metonymy Understanding to Visual Grammar-Guided Image Generation

Chuanyu Yu; Jiajun Zhang

39

From Factivity Labels to Factual Commitment: Six Macro Cues and Sixteen Operational Types for Chinese Factivity Inference

Xu Yilong; Liu Yi; Rao Gaoqi; Xun Endong

46

Diagnostic Confidence Control for Candidate Indicator Mining with Large Language Models

Jianing Sun; Yang Sun; Yubo Chen; Bo Chen; Xiaobing Zhao; Jingbo Sun; Ge Gao

51

Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Strategies for Structured Tabular Data: Sarawak Gazette

Alvin Zhi Yu Chai; Suhaila Saee

64

Elo Aggregation for Pairwise DeepResearch Report Evaluation: Order and Parameter Sensitivity Analysis

Shangbo Li; Xiaotong Liu

73

Assessing the Limits of Large Language Models’ Narrative Comprehension in Literature

Wenkai Hu; Junshuang Wu; Liangying Wu; Xiayu Zhang; Yiqiao Cai; Zhanni Chen; Ruikang Zhang

18

Genre-Moderated Effects of GenAI Reformulation on Lexical and Syntactic Complexity and Meaning Preservation in L2 Chinese Writing

Tianyi Hu; Yuxin Chen; Sin Manw Sophia Lam

19

From Phonemes to Boundary-Constrained Acoustic Subwords for Unsupervised Speech Recognition

Zhi Li; Yue Zhao; Jing Yu; BaiRui Wang; HaiZhou Li

20

Efficient Speaker Verification via Fine-grained Fusion of Layer-Selected Whisper Features and Handcrafted Cues

BaiRui Wang; Zhi Li; Yue Zhao; HaiZhou Li

27

A Comparison Study of Younger and Older Adults’ Speech Rhythm in Noise

Xiaoqing Ye

33

SpeechLLM based Uyghur ASR with Multilingual Pretrained Speech Representations and LLMs

Wenting Zhou; Yefeng Fan; Liangchu Xia; Jiangbo Wu; Mei Zhang; Guoxin Zhao; Xiaoyong Guo; Hao Huang

50

A Multi-Strategy Approach to Joint Tibetan ASR and Speaker Verification

Chenfeng Wu; Dechen Droma; Zhu Jie; Suolang Debai; Ning Li; Miao Wang; Qingsheng Kong

52

Self-Guided Data Selection for Budget-Limited ASR Adaptation

Jiatong Liu; Mengjun Wu; Changsong Liu; Yizhou Peng; Hexin Liu; Eng Siong Chng

59

Speech Rate Convergence in Human–AI Dialogue Across Multiple Emotional Scenarios

He Yi; Qixin Li; Yueyi Wang; Gaowu Wang

97

Disagreement-Guided Annotation Triage for Scaling Child English Speech Data in a Deployed Vietnamese–English Bilingual ASR System

Van Tuan Mai; Cao Cuong Vu; Dang Khiem Nguyen; Van Hiep Nguyen

13

Encoding the Small Seal Script of Shuowen Jiezi in ISO/IEC 10646: Tracing the Path from Proposal to Standard

Jiajia Hu; Ling Qin

47

A Multi-Granularity Feature Fusion Model for Chinese Automated Essay Scoring in Second Language Writing

Yanshan He; Juncang Rao; Hongwu Yang

55

A Study on Interactional Metadiscourse and Multimodal Realization Differences Between AI Digital Human and Human Streamers in Beauty E-commerce Live Streaming

Jiayu Wan; Ting Zhang

65

Neural Text Degeneration in Chinese–Mongolian Cross-Lingual Summarization: Diagnosis and Remedies

AO Bala; LIU Na; AODENG Hua

68

Event-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Document News Summarization

Liujian Li; Jian Zhang; Jun Bao

69

Pragmatic Strategy Annotation for LLM-Based Detection of Chinese Implicit Hate Speech

Yichen Qiao; Chenxi Wu; Siyuan Jiang; Tianqi Luo; Danyang Zheng; Shuangshuang Chen

70

LexiGuard for Lexical Control in Chinese Graded Story Generation for Young Children

Yunshu Li; Bei Cheng; Chenchen Niu; Shijie Song; Yi Wang

76

A GenAI-Supported Context-Adaptive Writing Instruction Model for Tibetan Rural Primary Schools

Yanshan He; Ting Wang; Hongwu Yang

3

A Study on the Initial Contact of Wuqi Dialect

Yanmei Liu

7

Phonological Changes in the Zhengzhou Dialect over the Past Four Decades: Patterns and Motivations

Xiaochuan Song

14

A Preliminary Study of Register Issues in Emergency Language Service

Xiaolu Cui; Liwei Zhou; Mengxi Guo; Gaoqi Rao

30

A Quantitative Comparison of Linguistic Characteristics in Mongolian Folk and Pop Song Lyrics

Wuqirilasaihan

41

Phonetic Patterns and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Middle Chinese Duan, Jing, and Jian Initials before [i]-Medial Rimes in Xunyang Dialect

Shunfan Fan; Yan Li

57

The Effect of Pitch Accent on Language Prediction in Chinese EFL Learners

Xiaoni Fu; Xiaoli Ji; Xiaoyu Zhu; Aijun Li

74

A Study on the Geographical Distribution and Historical Strata of the Initials of the MC Zhi, Zhuang, and Zhang Groups in Huazhou Dialect

Yingping Wang

101

Syntacticizing Discourse: A Minimalist Phase Theory Approach to Speaker-Addressee Interaction in Xi’an Dialect

Yang Gu; Jie Guo

5

A Two-Stage Framework for Chinese Writing Correction with Minimal Edit Control

Yanshan He; Hongwu Yang; Weitong Guo

23

Bidirectional Multi-Granularity Dependency Tree Conversion for Chinese: Algorithms and Applications

Hu Juncheng; Huang Junqiang

32

Cross-Linguistic Neurocognitive Semantic Profiles of Basic Emotion Words Using Word Embeddings

Xiaoyang Li

75

SWWC-BNF: A Formalism for Chinese Word-Level Morphological Structure and Its Empirical Validation on LLMs

Li Weigang; Ana Sofia Schweizer Silvestre

77

Can Large Language Models Select the Correct Antecedent for Modern Chinese Zero Anaphora? A Position-Stratified Evaluation with Given Candidates

Yonghong Ke

81

Construction of a Real-Time Database for Chinese Neologisms Assisted by AI Agents — A Case Study of WorkBuddy

Mengxiang Wang; Zexuan Gao; Ming Xu

82

Training-Free Improvement with Translation-Instruction Soft-Token Injection for Indonesian Retrieval Augmented Generation

Tjeng Wawan Cenggoro; Ganjar Widiatmansyah; Evan Purnama

83

Benchmarking Human-Rating Recoverability in Open-Weight Large Language Model Judgments of Chinese Metaphor-Related Sentences

Jingxian Zhao

78

Investigating the Role of Tone, Vowel, Consonant in Mandarin Syllable Perception in Noise

Lipeng Feng, Jian Gong, Yan Tang

84

ACCO: An Expert-Evaluated, Provenance-Aware OWL Ontology for Historical Chinese Costume Terminology

Hairui Huang; Yinfeng Pan; Runhua Hu; Jieyu Zhang; Keying Tan; Keying Tan

86

An Acoustic Study on Monosyllabic Tones of Midong Chinese Dialect and Its Tone Change Mechanisms

Hongmei Guo, Qian Du

87

Operationalizing the Lexical-Verb–Preposition Distinction for Historical Chinese zhuó/zhe

Jianzhi Liu; Fuzhen Si; Tejaswini Deoskar

88

How Poetic Traditions Change across Generations: Synchronic Topic Profiles and Diachronic Stylistic Shifts in Ten Languages

Zhiying Gu, Tao Mai

91

Why Is Classical Chinese More Spatially Efficient? A Dependency Entropy and Text Compression Approach

Hu Juncheng; Xiaoping Huang

99

Regional and Supra-regional Lexical Patterns in Early Modern Chinese Vernacular Fiction

Shaozhuo Sun; Jian Wu; Yue Zhang

107

Disruptive Effects of Lombard Speech on Chinese Learners’ Perception of English Prosodic Focus

Xin Wang, Jian Gong, Yixin Gu, Yan Tang

19:00 – 20:30

Dinner and COLIPS Activities