Accepted Papers

The list of the accepted papers for the HeaLing Workshop @ EACL 2026.

1. Semantic Echo Pathways (SEP): Tracing How Medical Language Propagates and Transforms
   Charu Karakkaparambil James, Marcio Monteiro, Sophie Fellenz
2. Discourses of Prevention: A Multimodal Study of HPV Vaccination Campaigns in Italy
   Claudia Roberta Combei, Antonio Bianco, Elena Giribaldi, Adalberto Lovotti, Valentina Ghirotto, Marianna Francesca Pasquali, Sara Gemelli, Chiara Cassani, Chiara Zanchi
3. A Graph-Augmented Liquid Neural Network for Extracting Food Hazards and Disease Outbreaks
   Tirthankar Dasgupta, Manjira Sinha, Sudeshna Jana, Diya Saha, Ishan Verma, Vaishali Aggarwal
4. Linguistic Blind Spots in Clinical Decision Extraction
   Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
5. The Doctor Will Agree With You Now: Sycophancy of Large Language Models in Multi-Turn Medical Conversations
   Taeil Matthew Kim, Luyang Luo, Sung Eun Kim, Arjun Kumar Manrai, Eric Topol, Pranav Rajpurkar
6. Do Mixed-Vendor Multi-Agent LLMs Improve Clinical Diagnosis?
   Grace Yuan, Xiaoman Zhang, Sung Eun Kim, Pranav Rajpurkar
7. Mind Your Steps in Biomedical Named Entity Recognition: First Extract, Tag Afterwards
   Darya Shlyk, Stefano Montanelli, Marco Mesiti, Lawrence Hunter
8. Cross-Lingual Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models for Arabic Medical Tasks
   Chaimae Abouzahir, Congbo Ma, Nizar Habash, Farah Shamout
9. Importance of Prompt Optimisation for Error Detection in Medical Notes Using Language Models
   Craig Myles, Patrick Schrempf, David Harris-Birtill
10. From Pain to Praise: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Norwegian Patient Feedback
    Lilja Charlotte Storset, Elma Jelin, Rebecka Maria Norman, Øyvind Andresen Bjertnæs, Lilja Øvrelid, Erik Velldal
11. Graph-Enhanced LLM Analysis of Multimodal Health Communities: A Computational Framework for Patient Discourse Understanding on TikTok
    Tawakalit Agboola, Oluwaseun Ajao
12. Data Augmentation Based on Selective Masking of Language Models for One Health Context
    Youssef Mahdoubi, Najlae Idrissi, Mathieu Roche, Sarah Valentin
13. StressRoBERTa: Cross-Condition Transfer Learning from Depression, Anxiety, and PTSD to Stress Detection
    Amal Abdullah Alqahtani, Efsun Kayi, Mona T. Diab
14. Linguistic Features Competitive with Bert! Leveraging Speech for Detection of Mental Health in Paediatric Lupus
    Jida Jaffan, Barend Beekhuizen, Andrea Knight
15. DementiaBank-Emotion: A Multi-Rater Emotion Annotation Corpus for Alzheimer’s Disease Speech (Version 1.0)
    Cheonkam Jeong, Jessica Liao, Audrey Lu, Yutong Song, Christopher Rashidian, Donna Krogh, Erik Krogh, Mahkameh Rasouli, Jung-Ah Lee, Nikil Dutt, Lisa Gibbs, David Sultzer, Julie Rousseau, Jocelyn Ludlow, Margaret Galvez, Alexander Nuth, Chet Khay, Sabine Brunswicker, Adeline Nyamathi
16. Who Judges the Judge? Evaluating LLM-as-a-Judge for French Medical open-ended QA
    Ikram Belmadani, Oumaima El Khettari, Pacôme Constant dit Beaufils, Richard Dufour, Benoit Favre
17. Almost Clinical: Linguistic properties of synthetic electronic health records
    Serge Sharoff, John Baker, David Francis Hunt, Alan Simpson
18. Why Are We Lonely? Leveraging LLMs to Measure and Understand Loneliness in Caregivers and Non-caregivers
    Michelle Damin Kim, Ellie S. Paek, Yufen Lin, Emily Mroz, Jane Chung, Jinho D. Choi
19. Empathy as interactional accomplishment in clinical interactions with a conversational agent
    Spencer Hazel, Adam Brandt, Yajie Vera He, Ernest Lim, Jared Joselowitz, Zachary Ellis
20. A Multimodal Framework for Aphasia Severity Classification in Russian
    Anastasia Kolmogorova, Ekaterina Yavshits, Anastasia Margolina, Anna Sugian
21. Towards Inclusive Communication in Cancer Prevention and Treatment: A Case Study on Italian Informational Materials
    Chiara Cassani, Luca Brigada Villa, Marco Forlano, Serena Coschignano, Amelia Barcellini, Silvia Luraghi, Alberto Gionvanni Leone, Chiara Zanchi, Adalberto Lovotti
22. Normalizing Health Concepts with Biomedical Embedding and LLMs
    Iram Azam, Keyuan Jiang, Gordon Bernard
23. Tracking Autism Stigma in Italian Newspapers: A Longitudinal Analysis of Media Discourse (2016–2025)
    Ginevra Martinelli, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Daniela Ovadia, Marta Bosia, Valentina Bambini
24. LLM Plug-ins Are Not a Free Lunch for Clinical Time-Series Prediction
    Juhwan Choi, Kwanhyung Lee, Sangchul Hahn, Eunho Yang
25. An Enhanced Training-Free Pipeline for Entity Recognition and Linking: A Low-Resource Case Study – 20-th Century Historical Medical Texts
    Phu-Vinh Nguyen, Vera Danilova
26. Modulating Multi-Label Tendency in Zero-Shot LLM Coding: The Effect of Output Structure on CDSS Feedback Analysis
    Hyunwoo Choo, Sungsoo Hong
27. Position: Biomedical NLP Demands Specialization, Not Generalization
    Wasi Azmine Toushik
28. Delayed Wh-Question Development in Children with Hearing Loss: Evidence for Morphosyntactic Vulnerability from Corpus-Based NLP and LLM Analyses
    Tong Wu