All times: PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) UTC/GMT -7 hours
09:00 - 09:10 Opening Remarks
09:10 - 10:00 Invited Talk 1: Ruihong Huang: Discourse Structure Guided NLP Models for Fine-grained Media Bias Analysis
10:00 - 10:30 Shared Task Overview: Findings of the Fifth Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution: Expanding Datasets for Long-Range Entities
What’s in a Bridge?: A Descriptive, Multi-Genre Analysis of the GUMBridge Corpus for Varieties of Bridging Anaphora
Lauren Levine and Amir Zeldes
Universal Discourse Relations: A Proposal
Anna Latusek, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Alina Wróblewska and Bartosz Zuk
A First Step towards Dialog Simulation with Grounded Dialog Graphs
Michael Ginn, Matt Pauk, Tava Reese, Sameer Gupta, Giuseppe Castellucci, Kevin Small, Alessandro Moschitti, Derek Palmer, Martha Palmer, Alexis Palmer and Maria Pacheco
Speech Disfluencies and LLM Confidence: Length Bias and Pragmatic Insensitivity in Brazilian Portuguese
Valeria Santos
Modeling Multimodal Discourse Coherence in Low-Resource Languages: Work-in-Progress
Mahule Roy and Subhas Roy
Baselines for Detection and Classification of Discourse Presentation in English Narrative
Reinaldo Di Polo, Mustafa Ocal and Mark Finlayson
Dataset Cartography for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition: Promises and Pitfalls
Daniil Ignatev, Denis Paperno and Massimo Poesio
Errors in coreference resolution in German: Effects of modality, simplification and heterogeneous training data
Sarah Jablotschkin, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Heike Zinsmeister
BeDiscovER: The Benchmark of Discourse Understanding in the Era of Reasoning Language Models
Chuyuan Li and Giuseppe Carenini
Multilingual Extraction and Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations in Speech and Text
Ahmed Ruby, Christian Hardmeier and Sara Stymne
Generative Multilingual Coreference Resolution at CRAC 2026
Jakub Hejman, Ondrej Prazak and Miloslav Konopík
Lightweight Multilingual Coreference Resolution without LLMs @CRAC2026
Sobha Lalitha Devi, Aashik Ali S, Gopinath P, Vijay Sundar Ram and Pattabhi Rk Rao
13:30 - 14:20 Invited Talk 2: Philippe Laban: Studying and Simulating Discourse Failures in Interactive AI Systems
Anthropomimetic Uncertainty: What Verbalized Uncertainty in Language Models is Missing
Dennis Ulmer, Alexandra Lorson, Ivan Titov and Christian Hardmeier
Expect the Unexpected? Testing the Surprisal of Salient Entities
Jessica Lin and Amir Zeldes
Do Language Models Use Logophoric Cues? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese Long-Distance Reflexive
Yunfang Dong
Speech Disfluencies and LLM Confidence: Length Bias and Pragmatic Insensitivity in Brazilian Portuguese
Valeria Santos
The lady doth protest too much: discourse expectations affect judgments of argument strength
S.r. Pulapura, Hannah Rohde and Catherine Lai
Strategic Dialogue Assessment: The Crooked Path to Innocence
Anshun Zheng, Junyi Jessy Li and David Beaver
DiscoExplorer: An Open Interface for the Study of Multilingual Discourse Relations
Amir Zeldes
Closing the Gap at CRAC 2026: Two-Stage Adaptation for LLM-Based Multilingual Coreference Resolution
Antoine Bourgois, Olga Seminck and Thierry Poibeau
CorPipe at CRAC 2026: Empty Nodes and Cross-Lingual Transfer in Multilingual Coreference Resolution
Milan Straka
DM Doppelgangers: Implicit Connectives as eRST Signals
Lin Ai and Amir Zeldes
What’s in a Bridge?: A Descriptive, Multi-Genre Analysis of the GUMBridge Corpus for Varieties of Bridging Anaphora
Lauren Levine and Amir Zeldes
Universal Discourse Relations: A Proposal
Anna Latusek, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Alina Wróblewska and Bartosz Zuk
Investigating discourse-level lexical semantic adaptation: A definition modeling approach
Bill Noble and Brandon Roy
A First Step towards Dialog Simulation with Grounded Dialog Graphs
Michael Ginn, Matt Pauk, Tava Reese, Sameer Gupta, Giuseppe Castellucci, Kevin Small, Alessandro Moschitti, Derek Palmer, Martha Palmer, Alexis Palmer and Maria Pacheco
Semantic-pragmatic Annotations in the Prague Dependency Treebank
Marie Mikulová, Eva Hajičová, Jiří Mírovský, Anna Nedoluzhko, Michal Novák, Pavlína Synková, Jan Štěpánek, Barbora Štěpánková, and Jan Hajič
Landcore: Coreference Resolution with Language-Specific LLM-Enhanced Prompts and XML-Inspired Annotation Scheme
Jan Pavelka
PortNLP at CRAC 2026: QLoRA Fine-Tuning with Bounded Entity Registry for Multilingual Coreference Resolution
Amber Shore, Russell Scheinberg, Malini Nagasundaram and Ameeta Agrawal
Closing the Gap: Robust Multilingual Coreference Resolution with DAgger
Thomas Morton and Alex Warstadt
Evaluating Pragmatic Reasoning in Large Language Models: Evidence from Scalar Diversity
Ye-Eun Cho