Encoding and Decoding Language in the Brain with Language Models
Anuja Negi, Mathis Lamarre, Christine Tseng, Subba Reddy Oota
Abstract
This tutorial introduces brain-language model alignment and recent advances in scaling, multilingual brain encoding, brain-informed fine-tuning, and brain decoding with language models, including semantic reconstruction from brain data.- Anthology ID:
- 2026.eacl-tutorials.3
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Tutorials)
- Month:
- March
- Year:
- 2026
- Address:
- St. Julian's, Malta
- Editors:
- Chenghua Lin, Aline Paes, Rodrigo Wilkens
- Venue:
- EACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 7–8
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.eacl-tutorials.3/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Anuja Negi, Mathis Lamarre, Christine Tseng, and Subba Reddy Oota. 2026. Encoding and Decoding Language in the Brain with Language Models. In Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Tutorials), pages 7–8, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Encoding and Decoding Language in the Brain with Language Models (Negi et al., EACL 2026)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.eacl-tutorials.3.pdf