This paper presents a neuro-symbolic ensemble for determining narrative similarity by moving beyond surface-level text matching toward structural and causal alignment. The architecture fuses three primary signals: action-focused neural embeddings that isolate event trajectories , a symbolic Structural Survival Ratio (SSR) that measures the preservation of discrete event tuples via dependency parsing , and high-level structural comparisons conducted by the gpt-5-mini model. Evaluated on the SemEval-2026 Task 4 test set, the integrated ensemble achieved an accuracy of 68.25%.

Multiword expressions (MWEs), particularlyidioms, pose persistent challengesfor vision-language systems due to theirnon-compositional semantics and culturallygrounded meanings. This paper presentsGLIMMER, a three-stage hybrid ranking systemthat evaluates how well images expressthe intended meaning of MWEs across 15 languages.Our approach uses LLM-generatedsemantic glosses as multilingual meaning anchors,combined with dual-path embeddingscoring (textual captions and visual features),and LLM-based semantic verification. Evaluatedon the ADMIRE shared task benchmark,GLIMMER achieves competitive performanceacross diverse languages without relying onparallel training data or language-specific resources.The results show that using glossesto anchor meaning helps match idioms withimages across languages and modalities, andthat combining retrieval with reasoning is morerobust than using embeddings alone.