Publications

Here are some of my latest publications. My older papers are listed on my NTNU profile.

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2026

Bungum, L., Halvorsen, O. A. & Gulla, J. A. (2026, September). Large language models for norwegian bokmål–nynorsk translation: Scaling laws and the limits of back-translation. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2026), 16940. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-37249-9_7

Bungum, L., Huang, C. Y. & Kashar, A. (2026, June). If i could turn back time: Temporal reframing as a historical reasoning task for large language models. Proceedings of the International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2026), 16696. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-29532-3_6

Simonsen, A., Stenlund, M., Bungum, L., Volhardt, M. D. S. & Einarsson, H. (2026, May). Reformulate and create, don’t translate: Creating natural prompts for underserved languages. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026). https://doi.org/10.63317/4kz5jrk3j9kw https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.841/

Stenlund, M., Simonsen, A., Bungum, L., Ebert, J., Wang, J., Filatov, O., Myneni, H., Riedel, M. & Einarsson, H. (2026, May). Synthetic instruction generation for low-resource nordic languages: Viability and limitations in LLM instruction-tuning. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026). https://doi.org/10.63317/3e73sy24wup3 https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.838/

Bungum, L., Huang, C. Y. & Bakken, J. (2026, May). An examination of the party leanings of large language models. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences (PoliticalNLP 2026) at LREC 2026. https://doi.org/10.63317/2guhsurix7ke https://aclanthology.org/2026.politicalnlp-1.21/