Google is making a significant impact at the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), held in Budapest, Hungary from October 24 to 29. As a Diamond Sponsor, Google is showcasing its latest advancements in natural language processing, language modeling, multimodal understanding, agentic systems, and responsible AI. The company has 31 accepted papers, participation in 11 workshops and 2 tutorials, an industry keynote, and a panel discussion.
Visitors to the conference can stop by the Google booth (#D5 in Hall H) for interactive demo and Q&A sessions. Highlights include a session on 'Mapping the Gaps: A Dashboard of Cultural Queries and Failures in Real-world AI Usage' and a presentation on 'Sign Language to Text (SL2T)', a breakthrough model that powers sign-to-text dictation in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11.
Google is also hosting an industry keynote by Verena Rieser on 'Toward a Science of Constitutional Alignment: Positive Alignment for Value-Based Agents'. This talk emphasizes the need for a rigorous science to ensure AI systems make safe, reliable choices. Additionally, a panel discussion on 'AI Agents in the Real World: Capability, Trust, Values, and Deployment' will explore the challenges and opportunities of deploying increasingly autonomous AI agents.
For real-time updates, attendees are encouraged to follow @GoogleResearch on X and visit the Google Research LinkedIn page. All scheduled session times are listed in Central European Time (CET).