Bolei Ma Receives Two ACL 2026 Awards

MCML Junior Member Bolei Ma received a Best Paper Award at ACL 2026 for "The Imperfective Paradox in LLMs" and an SAC Highlight Award for the survey "Table Question Answering in the Era of Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Tasks, Methods, and Evaluation".

The award-winning papers investigate fundamental challenges in natural language understanding and table question answering. While the Best Paper reveals a systematic bias in how large language models reason about event completion, the SAC Highlight Award recognizes a comprehensive survey that structures the rapidly evolving field of table question answering with LLMs by reviewing tasks, methods, benchmarks, and future research directions.

Congratulations on these outstanding achievements!

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