We are proud to announce that two UKP Lab contributions received special recognition at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in San Diego.

At the co-located SemEval-2026 workshop, our system received the Best Paper Award of Shared Task 2 and also topped the leaderboard with first place in Subtasks 1 and 2A:
UKP_Psycontrol at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Modeling Valence and Arousal Dynamics from Text by Dasha Hryhoryeva, Amaia Zurinaga Gutierrez, Hamidreza Jamalabadi and Iryna Gurevych

In the Main Conference, the following paper was selected as an SAC Highlight, recognizing qualities such as originality, significance, technical excellence, reproducibility, and potential impact on the field:
SciCoQA: Quality Assurance for Scientific Paper–Code Alignment by Tim Baumgärtner and Iryna Gurevych

Congratulations to the authors!