@inproceedings{p-jagadeeshan-2026-ihlc,
    title = "{IHLC}@{LT}-{EDI} 2026: Steering Toward Inclusivity - A Representation Engineering for Gender-Neutral Rewriting",
    author = "P, Akhil Rajeev  and
      Jagadeeshan, Manoj Balaji",
    editor = "Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja  and
      B, Bharathi  and
      Buitelaar, Paul  and
      Thenmozhi, Durairaj  and
      Garc{\'i}a Cumbreras, Miguel {\'A}ngel  and
      Jim{\'e}nez Zafra, Salud Mar{\'i}a",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Virtual (Online)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.ltedi-1.19/",
    pages = "177--181",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-424-8",
    abstract = "We describe the IHLC team{'}s submissionto the LT-EDI ACL 2026 Shared Task onGender-Inclusive Language Generation andCounterfactual/Counter Narrative Generation.Our English-only system applies an activationsteeringapproach combined with carefullyengineered prompt templates to producegender-neutral rewrites and empathetic counternarratives.We summarize system design, experimentalsetup, evaluation protocol used bythe shared task, and report results for both subtasks(Task A: Gender Inclusive Language Generation{--} Average = 80.00{\%}, Rank 3; TaskB: Counter Narrative Generation {--} Average =78.12{\%}, Rank 6). We also analyze strengthsand failure modes observed in automatic andhuman-checked evaluations and highlight directionsfor improvement."
}