COLING 2025

1,226 papers

Decoding Semantic Representations in the Brain Under Language Stimuli with Large Language Models

Anna Sato, Ichiro Kobayashi

Towards an operative definition of creative writing: a preliminary assessment of creativeness in AI and human texts

Chiara Maggi, Andrea Vitaletti

ParaRev : Building a dataset for Scientific Paragraph Revision annotated with revision instruction

Leane Jourdan, Florian Boudin, Richard Dufour, Nicolas Hernandez, Akiko Aizawa

Reading Between the Lines: A dataset and a study on why some texts are tougher than others

Nouran Khallaf, Carlo Eugeni, Serge Sharoff

Semantic Masking in a Needle-in-a-haystack Test for Evaluating Large Language Model Long-Text Capabilities

Ken Shi, Gerald Penn

Chain-of-MetaWriting: Linguistic and Textual Analysis of How Small Language Models Write Young Students Texts

Ioana Buhnila, Georgeta Cislaru, Amalia Todirascu

Navigating Dialectal Bias and Ethical Complexities in Levantine Arabic Hate Speech Detection

Ahmed Haj Ahmed, Rui-Jie Yew, Xerxes Minocher, Suresh Venkatasubramanian

AraSim: Optimizing Arabic Dialect Translation in Children’s Literature with LLMs and Similarity Scores

Alaa Bouomar, Noorhan Abbas

Dialect2SQL: A Novel Text-to-SQL Dataset for Arabic Dialects with a Focus on Moroccan Darija

Salmane Chafik, Saad Ezzini, Ismail Berrada

Empirical Evaluation of Pre-trained Language Models for Summarizing Moroccan Darija News Articles

Azzedine Aftiss, Salima Lamsiyah, Christoph Schommer, Said Ouatik El Alaoui

Evaluating Calibration of Arabic Pre-trained Language Models on Dialectal Text

Ali Al-Laith, Rachida Kebdani

Web-Based Corpus Compilation of the Emirati Arabic Dialect

Yousra A. El-Ghawi

Dial2MSA-Verified: A Multi-Dialect Arabic Social Media Dataset for Neural Machine Translation to Modern Standard Arabic

Abdullah Khered, Youcef Benkhedda, Riza Batista-Navarro

Enhancing Dialectal Arabic Intent Detection through Cross-Dialect Multilingual Input Augmentation

Shehenaz Hossain, Fouad Shammary, Bahaulddin Shammary, Haithem Afli

SADSLyC: A Corpus for Saudi Arabian Multi-dialect Identification through Song Lyrics

Salwa Saad Alahmari

Lost in Variation: An Unsupervised Methodology for Mining Lexico-syntactic Patterns in Middle Arabic Texts

Julien Bezançon, Rimane Karam, Gaël Lejeune

Lahjawi: Arabic Cross-Dialect Translator

Mohamed Motasim Hamed, Muhammad Hreden, Khalil Hennara, Zeina Aldallal, Sara Chrouf

ArabicSense: A Benchmark for Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning in Arabic with Large Language Models

Salima Lamsiyah, Kamyar Zeinalipour, Samir El amrany, Matthias Brust, Marco Maggini

CUFE@VarDial 2025 NorSID: Multilingual BERT for Norwegian Dialect Identification and Intent Detection

Michael Ibrahim

HiTZ at VarDial 2025 NorSID: Overcoming Data Scarcity with Language Transfer and Automatic Data Annotation

Jaione Bengoetxea, Mikel Zubillaga, Ekhi Azurmendi, Maite Heredia, Julen Etxaniz

LTG at VarDial 2025 NorSID: More and Better Training Data for Slot and Intent Detection

Marthe Midtgaard, Petter Mæhlum, Yves Scherrer

Add Noise, Tasks, or Layers? MaiNLP at the VarDial 2025 Shared Task on Norwegian Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection

Verena Blaschke, Felicia Körner, Barbara Plank

Common Ground, Diverse Roots: The Difficulty of Classifying Common Examples in Spanish Varieties

Javier A. Lopetegui, Arij Riabi, Djamé Seddah

Learning Cross-Dialectal Morphophonology with Syllable Structure Constraints

Salam Khalifa, Abdelrahim Qaddoumi, Jordan Kodner, Owen Rambow

Regional Distribution of the /el/-/æl/ Merger in Australian English

Steven Coats, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway, Debbie Loakes

Improving Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection with Auxiliary Tasks: A Multi-Dialectal Bavarian Case Study

Xaver Maria Krückl, Verena Blaschke, Barbara Plank

Neural Text Normalization for Luxembourgish Using Real-Life Variation Data

Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum, Christoph Purschke, Barbara Plank

Retrieval of Parallelizable Texts Across Church Slavic Variants

Piroska Lendvai, Uwe Reichel, Anna Jouravel, Achim Rabus, Elena Renje

Text Generation Models for Luxembourgish with Limited Data: A Balanced Multilingual Strategy

Alistair Plum, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Christoph Purschke

Testing the Boundaries of LLMs: Dialectal and Language-Variety Tasks

Fahim Faisal, Antonios Anastasopoulos

Large Language Models as a Normalizer for Transliteration and Dialectal Translation

Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Antonios Anastasopoulos

Adapting Whisper for Regional Dialects: Enhancing Public Services for Vulnerable Populations in the United Kingdom

Melissa Torgbi, Andrew Clayman, Jordan J. Speight, Harish Tayyar Madabushi

Leveraging Open-Source Large Language Models for Native Language Identification

Yee Man Ng, Ilia Markov

Information Theory and Linguistic Variation: A Study of Brazilian and European Portuguese

Diego Alves

Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2025: The NorSID Shared Task on Norwegian Slot, Intent and Dialect Identification

Yves Scherrer, Rob van der Goot, Petter Mæhlum

VRCP: Vocabulary Replacement Continued Pretraining for Efficient Multilingual Language Models

Yuta Nozaki, Dai Nakashima, Ryo Sato, Naoki Asaba, Shintaro Kawamura

Cross-Lingual Document Recommendations with Transformer-Based Representations: Evaluating Multilingual Models and Mapping Techniques

Tsegaye Misikir Tashu, Eduard-Raul Kontos, Matthia Sabatelli, Matias Valdenegro-Toro

Evaluating Dialect Robustness of Language Models via Conversation Understanding

Dipankar Srirag, Nihar Ranjan Sahoo, Aditya Joshi

CrossIn: An Efficient Instruction Tuning Approach for Cross-Lingual Knowledge Alignment

Geyu Lin, Bin Wang, Zhengyuan Liu, Nancy F. Chen

The First Multilingual Model For The Detection of Suicide Texts

Rodolfo Joel Zevallos, Annika Marie Schoene, John E. Ortega

NusaDialogue: Dialogue Summarization and Generation for Underrepresented and Extremely Low-Resource Languages

Ayu Purwarianti, Dea Adhista, Agung Baptiso, Miftahul Mahfuzh, Yusrina Sabila

IndoMorph: a Morphology Engine for Indonesian

Ian Kamajaya, David Moeljadi

Indonesian Speech Content De-Identification in Low Resource Transcripts

Rifqi Naufal Abdjul, Dessi Puji Lestari, Ayu Purwarianti, Candy Olivia Mawalim, Sakriani Sakti

Anak Baik: A Low-Cost Approach to Curate Indonesian Ethical and Unethical Instructions

Sulthan Abiyyu Hakim, Rizal Setya Perdana, Tirana Noor Fatyanosa

Thai Winograd Schemas: A Benchmark for Thai Commonsense Reasoning

Phakphum Artkaew

Evaluating Sampling Strategies for Similarity-Based Short Answer Scoring: a Case Study in Thailand

Pachara Boonsarngsuk, Pacharapon Arpanantikul, Supakorn Hiranwipas, Wipu Watcharakajorn, Ekapol Chuangsuwanich

NusaBERT: Teaching IndoBERT to be Multilingual and Multicultural

Wilson Wongso, David Samuel Setiawan, Steven Limcorn, Ananto Joyoadikusumo

bAI-bAI: A Context-Aware Transliteration System for Baybayin Scripts

Jacob Simon D. Bernardo, Maria Regina Justina E. Estuar

RAGulator: Effective RAG for Regulatory Question Answering

Islam Aushev, Egor Kratkov, Evgenii Nikolaev, Andrei Glinskii, Vasilii Krikunov

RIRAG: A Bi-Directional Retrieval-Enhanced Framework for Financial Legal QA in ObliQA Shared Task

Xinyan Zhang, Xiaobing Feng, Xiujuan Xu, Zhiliang Zheng, Kai WU

Regulatory Question-Answering using Generative AI

Devin Quinn, Sumit P. Pai, Iman Yousfi, Nirmala Pudota, Sanmitra Bhattacharya

A REGNLP Framework: Developing Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Regulatory Document Analysis

Ozan Bayer, Elif Nehir Ulu, Yasemin Sarkın, Ekrem Sütçü, Defne Buse Çelik

Enhancing Regulatory Compliance Through Automated Retrieval, Reranking, and Answer Generation

Kübranur Umar, Hakan Doğan, Onur Özcan, İsmail Karakaya, Alper Karamanlıoğlu

NUST Omega at RIRAG 2025: Investigating Context-aware Retrieval and Answer Generations-Lessons and Challenges

Huma Ameer, Muhammad Hannan Akram, Seemab Latif, Mehwish Fatima

NUST Alpha at RIRAG 2025: Fusion RAG for Bridging Lexical and Semantic Retrieval and Question Answering

Muhammad Rouhan Faisal, Muhammad Abdullah, Faizyaab Ali Shah, Shalina Riaz, Huma Ameer

NUST Nova at RIRAG 2025: A Hybrid Framework for Regulatory Information Retrieval and Question Answering

Mariam Babar Khan, Huma Ameer, Seemab Latif, Mehwish Fatima

A Two-Stage LLM System for Enhanced Regulatory Information Retrieval and Answer Generation

Fengzhao Sun, Jun Yu, Jiaming Hou, Yutong Lin, Tianyu Liu

Structured Tender Entities Extraction from Complex Tables with Few-short Learning

Asim Abbas, Mark Lee, Niloofer Shanavas, Venelin Kovatchev, Mubashir Ali

AUEB-Archimedes at RIRAG-2025: Is Obligation concatenation really all you need?

Ioannis Chasandras, Odysseas S. Chlapanis, Ion Androutsopoulos

MST-R: Multi-Stage Tuning for Retrieval Systems and Metric Evaluation

Yash Malviya, Karan Dhingra, Maneesh Singh

1-800-SHARED-TASKS at RegNLP: Lexical Reranking of Semantic Retrieval (LeSeR) for Regulatory Question Answering

Jebish Purbey, Drishti Sharma, Siddhant Gupta, Khawaja Murad, Siddartha Pullakhandam

A Hybrid Approach to Information Retrieval and Answer Generation for Regulatory Texts

Jhon Stewar Rayo Mosquera, Carlos Raul De La Rosa Peredo, Mario Garrido Cordoba

Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for efficient Regulatory Information Retrieval and Answer Generation

Kishore Vanapalli, Aravind Kilaru, Omair Shafiq, Shahzad Khan

Bilingual BSARD: Extending Statutory Article Retrieval to Dutch

Ehsan Lotfi, Nikolay Banar, Nerses Yuzbashyan, Walter Daelemans

Challenges in Technical Regulatory Text Variation Detection

Shriya Vaagdevi Chikati, Samuel Larkin, David Minicola, Chi-kiu Lo

Shared Task RIRAG-2025: Regulatory Information Retrieval and Answer Generation

Tuba Gokhan, Kexin Wang, Iryna Gurevych, Ted Briscoe

Generative FrameNet: Scalable and Adaptive Frames for Interpretable Knowledge Storage and Retrieval for LLMs Powered by LLMs

Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Taylor Hudson, Claire Bonial

Linking language model predictions to human behaviour on scalar implicatures

Yulia Zinova, David Arps, Katharina Spalek, Jacopo Romoli

Emergence of symbolic abstraction heads for in-context learning in large language models

Ali Al-Saeedi, Aki Härmä

Neuro-Conceptual Artificial Intelligence: Integrating OPM with Deep Learning to Enhance Question Answering Quality

Xin Kang, Veronika Shteyngardt, Yuhan Wang, Dov Dori

VCRMNER: Visual Cue Refinement in Multimodal NER using CLIP Prompts

Yu Bai, Lianji Wang, Xiang Liu, Haifeng Chi, Guiping Zhang

Bridging Language and Scenes through Explicit 3-D Model Construction

Tiansi Dong, Writwick Das, Rafet Sifa

LAB-KG: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Method with Knowledge Graphs for Medical Lab Test Interpretation

Rui Guo, Barry Devereux, Greg Farnan, Niall McLaughlin

From Chain to Tree: Refining Chain-like Rules into Tree-like Rules on Knowledge Graphs

Wangtao Sun, Shizhu He, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu

Reasoning Knowledge Filter for Logical Table-to-Text Generation

Yu Bai, Baoqiang Liu, Shuang Xue, Fang Cai, Na Ye

CEGRL-TKGR: A Causal Enhanced Graph Representation Learning Framework for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning

Jinze Sun, Yongpan Sheng, LIRONG HE, Yongbin Qin, Ming Liu

Chain of Knowledge Graph: Information-Preserving Multi-Document Summarization for Noisy Documents

Kangil Lee, Jinwoo Jang, Youngjin Lim, Minsu Shin

Integrating Argumentation Features for Enhanced Propaganda Detection in Arabic Narratives on the Israeli War on Gaza

Sara Nabhani, Claudia Borg, Kurt Micallef, Khalid Al-Khatib

NakbaTR: A Turkish NER Dataset for Nakba Narratives

Esma Fatıma Bilgin Tasdemir, Şaziye Betül Özateş

Bias Detection in Media: Traditional Models vs. Transformers in Analyzing Social Media Coverage of the Israeli-Gaza Conflict

Marryam Yahya Mohammed, Esraa Ismail Mohamed, Mariam Nabil Esmat, Yomna Ashraf Nagib, Nada Ahmed Radwan

The Missing Cause: An Analysis of Causal Attributions in Reporting on Palestine

Paulina Garcia Corral, Hannah Béchara, Krishnamoorthy Manohara, Slava Jankin

Collective Memory and Narrative Cohesion: A Computational Study of Palestinian Refugee Oral Histories in Lebanon

Ghadir A. Awad, Tamara N. Rayan, Lavinia Dunagan, David Gamba

Multilingual Propaganda Detection: Exploring Transformer-Based Models mBERT, XLM-RoBERTa, and mT5

Mohamed Ibrahim Ragab, Ensaf Hussein Mohamed, Walaa Medhat

Detecting Inconsistencies in Narrative Elements of Cross Lingual Nakba Texts

Nada Hamarsheh, Zahia Elabour, Aya Murra, Adnan Yahya

Exploring Author Style in Nakba Short Stories: A Comparative Study of Transformer-Based Models

Osama Hamed, Nadeem Zaidkilani

Arabic Topic Classification Corpus of the Nakba Short Stories

Osama Hamed, Nadeem Zaidkilani

The Nakba Lexicon: Building a Comprehensive Dataset from Palestinian Literature

Izza AbuHaija, Salim Al Mandhari, Mo El-Haj, Jonas Sibony, Paul Rayson

Sentiment Analysis of Nakba Oral Histories: A Critical Study of Large Language Models

Huthaifa I. Ashqar

Cognitive Geographies of Catastrophe Narratives: Georeferenced Interview Transcriptions as Language Resource for Models of Forced Displacement

Annie K. Lamar, Rick Castle, Carissa Chappell, Emmanouela Schoinoplokaki, Allene M. Seet

A cultural shift in Western perceptions of Palestine

Terry Regier, Muhammad Ali Khalidi

Deciphering Implicatures: On NLP and Oral Testimonies

Zainab Sabra

The First Workshop on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation at COLING 2025: Overview of the Shared Task

Helena Bonaldi, María Estrella Vallecillo-Rodríguez, Irune Zubiaga, Arturo Montejo-Ráez, Aitor Soroa

TrenTeam at Multilingual Counterspeech Generation: Multilingual Passage Re-Ranking Approaches for Knowledge-Driven Counterspeech Generation Against Hate

Daniel Russo

Hyderabadi Pearls at Multilingual Counterspeech Generation : HALT : Hate Speech Alleviation using Large Language Models and Transformers

Md Shariq Farhan

MilaNLP@Multilingual Counterspeech Generation: Evaluating Translation and Background Knowledge Filtering

Emanuele Moscato, Arianna Muti, Debora Nozza

HW-TSC at Multilingual Counterspeech Generation

Xinglin Lyu, Haolin Wang, Min Zhang, Hao Yang

CODEOFCONDUCT at Multilingual Counterspeech Generation: A Context-Aware Model for Robust Counterspeech Generation in Low-Resource Languages

Michael Bennie, Bushi Xiao, Chryseis Xinyi Liu, Demi Zhang, Jian Meng

NLP@IIMAS-CLTL at Multilingual Counterspeech Generation: Combating Hate Speech Using Contextualized Knowledge Graph Representations and LLMs

David Salvador Preciado Márquez, Helena Gomez Adorno, Ilia Markov, Selene Baez Santamaria

Northeastern Uni at Multilingual Counterspeech Generation: Enhancing Counter Speech Generation with LLM Alignment through Direct Preference Optimization

Sahil Wadhwa, Chengtian Xu, Haoming Chen, Aakash Mahalingam, Akankshya Kar

RSSN at Multilingual Counterspeech Generation: Leveraging Lightweight Transformers for Efficient and Context-Aware Counter-Narrative Generation

Ravindran V