ACL 2025

4,141 papers

Transformer Architectures for Vocabulary Test Item Difficulty Prediction

Lucy Skidmore, Mariano Felice, Karen Dunn

Is Lunch Free Yet? Overcoming the Cold-Start Problem in Supervised Content Scoring using Zero-Shot LLM-Generated Training Data

Marie Bexte, Torsten Zesch

COGENT: A Curriculum-oriented Framework for Generating Grade-appropriate Educational Content

Zhengyuan Liu, Stella Xin Yin, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Nancy Chen

Adapting LLMs for Minimal-edit Grammatical Error Correction

Ryszard Staruch, Filip Graliński, Daniel Dzienisiewicz

Can LLMs Effectively Simulate Human Learners? Teachers’ Insights from Tutoring LLM Students

Daria Martynova, Jakub Macina, Nico Daheim, Nilay Yalcin, Xiaoyu Zhang

Leveraging Generative AI for Enhancing Automated Assessment in Programming Education Contests

Stefan Dascalescu, Marius Dumitran, Mihai Alexandru Vasiluta

Alignment Drift in CEFR-prompted LLMs for Interactive Spanish Tutoring

Mina Almasi, Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan

A Survey on Automated Distractor Evaluation in Multiple-Choice Tasks

Luca Benedetto, Shiva Taslimipoor, Paula Buttery

Unsupervised Automatic Short Answer Grading and Essay Scoring: A Weakly Supervised Explainable Approach

Felipe Urrutia, Cristian Buc, Roberto Araya, Valentin Barriere

MateInfoUB: A Real-World Benchmark for Testing LLMs in Competitive, Multilingual, and Multimodal Educational Tasks

Marius Dumitran, Mihnea Buca, Theodor Moroianu

Comparing human and LLM proofreading in L2 writing: Impact on lexical and syntactic features

Hakyung Sung, Karla Csuros, Min-Chang Sung

Large Language Models for Education: Understanding the Needs of Stakeholders, Current Capabilities and the Path Forward

Sankalan Pal Chowdhury, Nico Daheim, Ekaterina Kochmar, Jakub Macina, Donya Rooein

Leveraging Context for Multimodal Fallacy Classification in Political Debates

Alessio Pittiglio

Prompt-Guided Augmentation and Multi-modal Fusion for Argumentative Fallacy Classification in Political Debates

Abdullah Tahir, Imaan Ibrar, Huma Ameer, Mehwish Fatima, Seemab Latif

Multimodal Argumentative Fallacy Classification in Political Debates

Warale Avinash Kalyan, Siddharth Pagaria, Chaitra V, Spoorthi H G

Argumentative Fallacy Detection in Political Debates

Eva Cantín Larumbe, Adriana Chust Vendrell

Overview of MM-ArgFallacy2025 on Multimodal Argumentative Fallacy Detection and Classification in Political Debates

Eleonora Mancini, Federico Ruggeri, Serena Villata, Paolo Torroni

TriLLaMa at CQs-Gen 2025: A Two-Stage LLM-Based System for Critical Question Generation

Frieso Turkstra, Sara Nabhani, Khalid Al-Khatib

COGNAC at CQs-Gen 2025: Generating Critical Questions with LLM-Assisted Prompting and Multiple RAG Variants

Azwad Anjum Islam, Tisa Islam Erana, Mark A. Finlayson

Mind_Matrix at CQs-Gen 2025: Adaptive Generation of Critical Questions for Argumentative Interventions

Sha Newaz Mahmud, Shahriar Hossain, Samia Rahman, Momtazul Arefin Labib, Hasan Murad

ELLIS Alicante at CQs-Gen 2025: Winning the critical thinking questions shared task: LLM-based question generation and selection

Lucile Favero, Daniel Frases, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Tanja Käser, Nuria Oliver

CriticalBrew at CQs-Gen 2025: Collaborative Multi-Agent Generation and Evaluation of Critical Questions for Arguments

Roxanne El Baff, Dominik Opitz, Diaoulé Diallo

ARG2ST at CQs-Gen 2025: Critical Questions Generation through LLMs and Usefulness-based Selection

Alan Ramponi, Gaudenzia Genoni, Sara Tonelli

CUET_SR34 at CQs-Gen 2025: Critical Question Generation via Few-Shot LLMs – Integrating NER and Argument Schemes

Sajib Bhattacharjee, Tabassum Basher Rashfi, Samia Rahman, Hasan Murad

DayDreamer at CQs-Gen 2025: Generating Critical Questions through Argument Scheme Completion

Wendi Zhou, Ameer Saadat-Yazdi, Nadin Kökciyan

Webis at CQs-Gen 2025: Prompting and Reranking for Critical Questions

Midhun Kanadan, Johannes Kiesel, Maximilian Heinrich, Benno Stein

Tdnguyen at CQs-Gen 2025: Adapt Large Language Models with Multi-Step Reasoning for Critical Questions Generation

Tien-Dat Nguyen, Duc-Vu Nguyen

StateCloud at Critical Questions Generation: Prompt Engineering for Critical Question Generation

Jinghui Zhang, Dongming Yang, Binghuai Lin

Overview of the Critical Questions Generation Shared Task

Blanca Calvo Figueras, Jaione Bengoetxea, Maite Heredia, Ekaterina Sviridova, Elena Cabrio

Segmentation of Argumentative Texts by Key Statements for Argument Mining from the Web

Ines Zelch, Matthias Hagen, Benno Stein, Johannes Kiesel

Storytelling in Argumentative Discussions: Exploring the Use of Narratives in ChangeMyView

Sara Nabhani, Khalid Al Khatib, Federico Pianzola, Malvina Nissim

From Debates to Diplomacy: Argument Mining Across Political Registers

Maria Poiaganova, Manfred Stede

Multi-Class versus Means-End: Assessing Classification Approaches for Argument Patterns

Maximilian Heinrich, Khalid Al Khatib, Benno Stein

Reasoning Under Distress: Mining Claims and Evidence in Mental Health Narratives

Jannis Köckritz, Bahar İlgen, Georges Hattab

Reproducing the Argument Quality Prediction of Project Debater

Ines Zelch, Matthias Hagen, Benno Stein, Johannes Kiesel

Stance-aware Definition Generation for Argumentative Texts

Natalia Evgrafova, Loic De Langhe, Véronique Hoste, Els Lefever

A Simple but Effective Context Retrieval for Sequential Sentence Classification in Long Legal Documents

Anas Belfathi, Nicolas Hernandez, Laura Monceaux, Richard Dufour

Automatic Identification and Naming of Overlapping and Topic-specific Argumentation Frames

Carolin Schindler, Annalena Aicher, Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker

DebArgVis: An Interactive Visualisation Tool for Exploring Argumentative Dynamics in Debate

Martin Gruber, Zlata Kikteva, Ignaz Rutter, Annette Hautli-Janisz

Investigating Subjective Factors of Argument Strength: Storytelling, Emotions, and Hedging

Carlotta Quensel, Neele Falk, Gabriella Lapesa

Aspect-Based Opinion Summarization with Argumentation Schemes

Wendi Zhou, Ameer Saadat-Yazdi, Nadin Kökciyan

Argumentative Analysis of Legal Rulings: A Structured Framework Using Bobbitt’s Typology

Carlotta Giacchetta, Raffaella Bernardi, Barbara Montini, Jacopo Staiano, Serena Tomasi

Practical Solutions to Practical Problems in Developing Argument Mining Systems

Debela Gemechu, Ramon Ruiz-Dolz, John Lawrence, Chris Reed

On Integrating LLMs Into an Argument Annotation Workflow

Robin Schaefer

Leveraging Graph Structural Knowledge to Improve Argument Relation Prediction in Political Debates

Deborah Dore, Stefano Faralli, Serena Villata

Multi-Agent LLM Debate Unveils the Premise Left Unsaid

Harvey Bonmu Ku, Jeongyeol Shin, Hyoun Jun Lee, Seonok Na, Insu Jeon

Old but Gold: LLM-Based Features and Shallow Learning Methods for Fine-Grained Controversy Analysis in YouTube Comments

Davide Bassi, Erik Bran Marino, Renata Vieira, Martin Pereira

Retrieving Argument Graphs Using Vision Transformers

Kilian Bartz, Mirko Lenz, Ralph Bergmann

Toward Reasonable Parrots: Why Large Language Models Should Argue with Us by Design

Elena Musi, Nadin Kökciyan, Khalid Al Khatib, Davide Ceolin, Emmanuelle Dietz

Exploring LLM Priming Strategies for Few-Shot Stance Classification

Yamen Ajjour, Henning Wachsmuth

“The Facts Speak for Themselves”: GPT and Fallacy Classification

Erisa Bytyqi, Annette Hautli-Janisz

Testing Spatial Intuitions of Humans and Large Language and Multimodal Models in Analogies

Ivo Bueno, Anna Bavaresco, João Miguel Cunha, Philipp Wicke

Can Stories Help LLMs Reason? Curating Information Space Through Narrative

Vahid Sadiri Javadi, Johanne Trippas, Yash Kumar Lal, Lucie Flek

Simulating Emotional Intelligence in LLMs through Behavioral Conditioning and Analogical Retrieval

G.Sai Linisha Reddy, Mounil Hiren Kankhara, Mridul Maheshwari, Swayam Bansal, Rishit Kapoor

HATS : Hindi Analogy Test Set for Evaluating Reasoning in Large Language Models

Ashray Gupta, Rohan Joseph, Sunny Rai

Prompting Metaphoricity: Soft Labeling with Large Language Models in Popular Communication of Science Tweets in Spanish

Alec Sánchez-Montero, Gemma Bel-Enguix, Sergio-luis Ojeda-trueba, Gerardo Sierra

On choosing the vehicles of metaphors without a body: evidence from Large Language Models

Veronica Mangiaterra, Chiara Barattieri Di San Pietro, Federico Frau, Valentina Bambini, Hamad Al-Azary

Modeling Background Knowledge with Frame Semantics for Fine-grained Sentiment Classification

Muhammad Okky Ibrohim, Valerio Basile, Danilo Croce, Cristina Bosco, Roberto Basili

Using Large Language Models to Perform MIPVU-Inspired Automatic Metaphor Detection

Sebastian Reimann, Tatjana Scheffler

Tore-Klose: Record Scorer, Goal Hunter, Machine? Human Association Norms for German Personal Name Compounds

Annerose Eichel, Tana Deeg, Andre Blessing, Milena Belosevic, Sabine Arndt-Lappe

Y-NQ: English-Yorùbá Evaluation dataset for Open-Book Reading Comprehension with Open-Ended Questions

Marta R. Costa-jussà, Joy Chen, Ife Adebara, Joe Chuang, Christophe Ropers

Beyond Metrics: Evaluating LLMs Effectiveness in Culturally Nuanced, Low-Resource Real-World Scenarios

Millicent Ochieng, Varun Gumma, Sunayana Sitaram, Jindong Wang, Vishrav Chaudhary

Multilingual NLP for African Healthcare: Bias, Translation, and Explainability Challenges

Ugochi Okafor

Neural Morphological Tagging for Nguni Languages

Cael Marquard, Simbarashe Mawere, Francois Meyer

Swahili News Classification: Performance, Challenges, and Explainability Across ML, DL, and Transformers

Manas Pandya, Avinash Kumar Sharma, Arpit Shukla

Evaluating Robustness of LLMs to Typographical Noise in Yorùbá QA

Paul Okewunmi, Favour James, Oluwadunsin Fajemila

Beyond Generalization :Evaluating Multilingual LLMs for Yorùbá Animal Health Translation

Godwin Adegbehingbe, Anthony Soronnadi, Ife Adebara, Olubayo Adekanmbi

HausaNLP: Current Status, Challenges and Future Directions for Hausa Natural Language Processing

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam

In-Domain African Languages Translation Using LLMs and Multi-armed Bandits

Pratik Rakesh Singh, Kritarth Prasad, Mohammadi Zaki, Pankaj Wasnik

MOZ-Smishing: A Benchmark Dataset for Detecting Mobile Money Frauds

Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Saide M. Saide, Rui Sousa-Silva, Henrique Lopes Cardoso

Challenging Multimodal LLMs with African Standardized Exams: A Document VQA Evaluation

Victor Tolulope Olufemi, Oreoluwa Boluwatife Babatunde, Emmanuel Bolarinwa, Kausar Yetunde Moshood

YodiV3: NLP for Togolese Languages with Eyaa-Tom Dataset and the Lom Metric

Bakoubolo Essowe Justin, Kodjo François Xegbe, Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman, Afola Kossi Mawouéna Samuel

Challenges and Limitations in Gathering Resources for Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Medumba

Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Mbuh Christabel, Njeunga Yopa

Command R7B Arabic: a small, enterprise-focused, multilingual, and culturally aware Arabic LLM

Yazeed Alnumay, Alexandre Barbet, Anna Bialas, William Darling, Shaan Desai

Story Generation with Large Language Models for African Languages

Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman, Jan Buys

Retrieval-Augmented Generation Meets Local Languages for Improved Drug Information Access and Comprehension.

Ahmad Ibrahim Ismail, Bashirudeen Opeyemi Ibrahim, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Ife Adebara

SabiYarn: Advancing Low Resource Languages with Multitask NLP Pretraining

Jeffrey Otoibhi, Oduguwa Damilola, Okpare David

Automatic Speech Recognition for African Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions

Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Babangida Sani, Dawit Ketema Gete, Bedru Yimam Ahmed, Ibrahim Said Ahmad

Who Wrote This? Identifying Machine vs Human-Generated Text in Hausa

Babangida Sani, Aakansha Soy, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Ahmad Mustapha, Lukman Jibril Aliyu

Fine-tuning Whisper Tiny for Swahili ASR: Challenges and Recommendations for Low-Resource Speech Recognition

Avinash Kumar Sharma, Manas Pandya, Arpit Shukla

Exploring Transliteration-Based Zero-Shot Transfer for Amharic ASR

Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Hanan Aldarmaki

Building a Functional Machine Translation Corpus for Kpelle

Kweku Andoh Yamoah, Jackson Weako, Emmanuel Dorley

Designing and Contextualising Probes for African Languages

Wisdom Aduah, Francois Meyer

Pretraining Strategies using Monolingual and Parallel Data for Low-Resource Machine Translation

Idriss Nguepi Nguefack, Mara Finkelstein, Toadoum Sari Sakayo

Enhancing AI-Driven Farming Advisory in Kenya with Efficient RAG Agents via Quantized Fine-Tuned Language Models

Theophilus Lincoln Owiti, Andrew Kiprop Kipkebut

On the Tolerance of Repetition Before Performance Degradation in Kiswahili Automatic Speech Recognition

Kathleen Siminyu, Kathy Reid, Rebecca Ryakitimbo, Britone Mwasaru, Chenai Chair

Supervised Machine Learning based Amharic Text Complexity Classification Using Automatic Annotator Tool

Gebregziabihier Nigusie

Yankari: Monolingual Yoruba Dataset

Maro Akpobi

Enhancing Complex Reasoning in Knowledge Graph Question Answering through Query Graph Approximation

Hongjun Jeong, Minji Kim, Heesoo Jung, Ko Keun Kim, Hogun Park

Automated Fine-Grained Mixture-of-Experts Quantization

Zhanhao Xie, Yuexiao Ma, Xiawu Zheng, Fei Chao, Wanchen Sui

MEXA: Multilingual Evaluation of English-Centric LLMs via Cross-Lingual Alignment

Amir Hossein Kargaran, Ali Modarressi, Nafiseh Nikeghbal, Jana Diesner, François Yvon

Accelerating Adaptive Retrieval Augmented Generation via Instruction-Driven Representation Reduction of Retrieval Overlaps

Jie Ou, Jinyu Guo, Shuaihong Jiang, Zhaokun Wang, Libo Qin

Rationalize and Align: Enhancing Writing Assistance with Rationale via Self-Training for Improved Alignment

Hannan Cao, Hai Ye, Hwee Tou Ng

Revisiting In-Context Learning with Long Context Language Models

Jinheon Baek, Sun Jae Lee, Prakhar Gupta, Geunseob Oh, Siddharth Dalmia

ProcrustesGPT: Compressing LLMs with Structured Matrices and Orthogonal Transformations

Ekaterina Grishina, Mikhail Gorbunov, Maxim Rakhuba

DynaQuest: A Dynamic Question Answering Dataset Reflecting Real-World Knowledge Updates

Qian Lin, Junyi Li, Hwee Tou Ng

How Programming Concepts and Neurons Are Shared in Code Language Models

Amir Hossein Kargaran, Yihong Liu, François Yvon, Hinrich Schuetze

MMRefine: Unveiling the Obstacles to Robust Refinement in Multimodal Large Language Models

Gio Paik, Geewook Kim, Jinbae Im

A Constrained Text Revision Agent via Iterative Planning and Searching

Hannan Cao, Hwee Tou Ng

HASH-RAG: Bridging Deep Hashing with Retriever for Efficient, Fine Retrieval and Augmented Generation

Jinyu Guo, Xunlei Chen, Qiyang Xia, Zhaokun Wang, Jie Ou