Field Report: EMNLP 2026

The EMNLP 2026 Conference in Budapest has been such a blast! This is one of the top NLP conferences in the field and I feel honored to have presented my work there. It’s also a conference of firsts as I presented my first PhD paper and my first time co-organizing a workshop! The location is also top-notch: Budapest is charming, and I enjoyed my time there. My conference activities Presenting my research on multilingual synthetic data generation I presented my first PhD paper, Polyglot Teachers: Evaluating Language Models for Multilingual Synthetic Data Generation, where we performed a comprehensive analysis of synthetic data generation techniques for producing high-quality multilingual data. We also introduced a metric, called Polyglot Score, that takes into consideration both the intrinsic and extrinsic qualities of the generated data and the model it has been trained on. Synthetic data has been on my mind since my pre-doc days. My work has revolved around understanding when…

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