🏆 An outstanding paper award at the EMNLP for our work titled "Aligned but Not Partner-Specific"

🏆 We are very honoured that our paper “Aligned but Not Partner-Specific: How Multimodal LLM Agents Succeed in Reference Games Without Forming Conceptual Pacts” received an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP2026, one of the leading conferences in natural language processing and AI.

This study is an example of interdisciplinary teamwork from the Multimodal Language Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

I am very grateful to my amazing co-authors Po Ya Angela (Amber) Wang, Chinmaya Mishra, Asli Ozyurek, and @Paula Rubio-Fernandez. Special thanks to Amber, our first author, who presented the work in Budapest.

We also thank the EMNLP community for this recognition.

You can learn more about the paper here: 📄 https://lnkd.in/eX8mTVCk