COLING 2025

1,226 papers

Hermit Kingdom Through the Lens of Multiple Perspectives: A Case Study of LLM Hallucination on North Korea

Eunjung Cho, Won Ik Cho, Soomin Seo

Finetuning LLMs for Comparative Assessment Tasks

Vatsal Raina, Adian Liusie, Mark Gales

Controlling Out-of-Domain Gaps in LLMs for Genre Classification and Generated Text Detection

Dmitri Roussinov, Serge Sharoff, Nadezhda Puchnina

Benchmark Self-Evolving: A Multi-Agent Framework for Dynamic LLM Evaluation

Siyuan Wang, Zhuohan Long, Zhihao Fan, Xuanjing Huang, zhongyu wei

Intent Contrastive Learning Based on Multi-view Augmentation for Sequential Recommendation

Bo Pei, Yingzheng Zhu, Guangjin Wang, Huajuan Duan, Wenya Wu

MQM-Chat: Multidimensional Quality Metrics for Chat Translation

Yunmeng Li, Jun Suzuki, Makoto Morishita, Kaori Abe, Kentaro Inui

Gracefully Filtering Backdoor Samples for Generative Large Language Models without Retraining

Zongru Wu, Pengzhou Cheng, Lingyong Fang, Zhuosheng Zhang, Gongshen Liu

Improvement in Sign Language Translation Using Text CTC Alignment

Sihan Tan, Taro Miyazaki, Nabeela Khan, Kazuhiro Nakadai

MBA-RAG: a Bandit Approach for Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation through Question Complexity

Xiaqiang Tang, Qiang Gao, Jian Li, Nan Du, Qi Li

COF: Adaptive Chain of Feedback for Comparative Opinion Quintuple Extraction

Qingting Xu, Kaisong Song, Chaoqun Liu, Yangyang Kang, Xiabing Zhou

TermDiffuSum: A Term-guided Diffusion Model for Extractive Summarization of Legal Documents

Xiangyun Dong, Wei Li, Yuquan Le, Zhangyue Jiang, Junxi Zhong

SKIntern: Internalizing Symbolic Knowledge for Distilling Better CoT Capabilities into Small Language Models

Huanxuan Liao, Shizhu He, Yupu Hao, Xiang Li, Yuanzhe Zhang

Enhancing Emotional Support Conversations: A Framework for Dynamic Knowledge Filtering and Persona Extraction

Jiawang Hao, Fang Kong

Lexicography Saves Lives (LSL): Automatically Translating Suicide-Related Language

Annika Marie Schoene, John E. Ortega, Rodolfo Joel Zevallos, Laura Haaber Ihle

Revisiting Jailbreaking for Large Language Models: A Representation Engineering Perspective

Tianlong Li, Zhenghua Wang, Wenhao Liu, Muling Wu, Shihan Dou

Reasoning with Trees: Faithful Question Answering over Knowledge Graph

Tiesunlong Shen, Jin Wang, Xuejie Zhang, Erik Cambria

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Syntax-Opinion-Sentiment Reasoning Chain

Rui Fan, Shu Li, Tingting He, Yu Liu

Unifying Dual-Space Embedding for Entity Alignment via Contrastive Learning

Cunda Wang, Weihua Wang, Qiuyu Liang, Feilong Bao, Guanglai Gao

Unveiling Uncertainty: A Deep Dive into Calibration and Performance of Multimodal Large Language Models

Zijun Chen, Wenbo Hu, Guande He, Zhijie Deng, Zheng Zhang

LLM Sensitivity Evaluation Framework for Clinical Diagnosis

Chenwei Yan, Xiangling Fu, Yuxuan Xiong, Tianyi Wang, Siu Cheung Hui

To Label or Not to Label: Hybrid Active Learning for Neural Machine Translation

Abdul Hameed Azeemi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Agha Ali Raza

RGR-KBQA: Generating Logical Forms for Question Answering Using Knowledge-Graph-Enhanced Large Language Model

Tengfei Feng, Liang He

Rethinking-based Code Summarization with Chain of Comments

Liuwen Cao, Hongkui He, Hailin Huang, Jiexin Wang, Yi Cai

Learning to Reason via Self-Iterative Process Feedback for Small Language Models

Kaiyuan Chen, Jin Wang, Xuejie Zhang

SAGED: A Holistic Bias-Benchmarking Pipeline for Language Models with Customisable Fairness Calibration

Xin Guan, Nate Demchak, Saloni Gupta, Ze Wang, Ediz Ertekin Jr.

Do Large Language Models Mirror Cognitive Language Processing?

Yuqi Ren, Renren Jin, Tongxuan Zhang, Deyi Xiong

Towards Understanding Multi-Task Learning (Generalization) of LLMs via Detecting and Exploring Task-Specific Neurons

Yongqi Leng, Deyi Xiong

Intention Analysis Makes LLMs A Good Jailbreak Defender

Yuqi Zhang, Liang Ding, Lefei Zhang, Dacheng Tao

Hawkes based Representation Learning for Reasoning over Scale-free Community-structured Temporal Knowledge Graphs

Yuwei Du, Xinyue Liu, Wenxin Liang, Linlin Zong, Xianchao Zhang

Rethinking Vocabulary Augmentation: Addressing the Challenges of Low-Resource Languages in Multilingual Models

Nankai Lin, Peijian Zeng, Weixiong Zheng, Shengyi Jiang, Dong Zhou

Retrieval Augmented Instruction Tuning for Open NER with Large Language Models

Tingyu Xie, Jian Zhang, Yan Zhang, Yuanyuan Liang, Qi Li

Scaffolding Coordinates to Promote Vision-Language Coordination in Large Multi-Modal Models

Xuanyu Lei, Zonghan Yang, Xinrui Chen, Peng Li, Yang Liu

Towards Adaptive Mechanism Activation in Language Agent

Ziyang Huang, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu

ALYMPICS: LLM Agents Meet Game Theory

Shaoguang Mao, Yuzhe Cai, Yan Xia, Wenshan Wu, Xun Wang

t-HNE: A Text-guided Hierarchical Noise Eliminator for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Zuocheng Li, Lishuang Li

Topology-of-Question-Decomposition: Enhancing Large Language Models with Information Retrieval for Knowledge-Intensive Tasks

Weijie Li, Jin Wang, Liang-Chih Yu, Xuejie Zhang

Bias Vector: Mitigating Biases in Language Models with Task Arithmetic Approach

Daiki Shirafuji, Makoto Takenaka, Shinya Taguchi

Improving Automatic Grammatical Error Annotation for Chinese Through Linguistically-Informed Error Typology

Yang Gu, Zihao Huang, Min Zeng, Mengyang Qiu, Jungyeul Park

LLM Sensitivity Challenges in Abusive Language Detection: Instruction-Tuned vs. Human Feedback

Yaqi Zhang, Viktor Hangya, Alexander Fraser

The Gaps between Fine Tuning and In-context Learning in Bias Evaluation and Debiasing

Masahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala, Timothy Baldwin

Enhancing Arabic NLP Tasks through Character-Level Models and Data Augmentation

Mohanad Mohamed, Sadam Al-Azani

Efficient Tool Use with Chain-of-Abstraction Reasoning

Silin Gao, Jane Dwivedi-Yu, Ping Yu, Xiaoqing Ellen Tan, Ramakanth Pasunuru

CMMaTH: A Chinese Multi-modal Math Skill Evaluation Benchmark for Foundation Models

Zhongzhi Li, Ming-Liang Zhang, Pei-Jie Wang, Jian Xu, Rui-Song Zhang

Oddballness: universal anomaly detection with language models

Filip Graliński, Ryszard Staruch, Krzysztof Jurkiewicz

Leveraging Language Models for Summarizing Mental State Examinations: A Comprehensive Evaluation and Dataset Release

Nilesh Kumar Sahu, Manjeet Yadav, Mudita Chaturvedi, Snehil Gupta, Haroon R. Lone

Reasoning-Oriented and Analogy-Based Methods for Locating and Editing in Zero-Shot Event-Relational Reasoning

Jingyao Tang, Lishuang Li, Liteng Mi, Haiming Wu, Hongbin Lu

ProSparse: Introducing and Enhancing Intrinsic Activation Sparsity within Large Language Models

Chenyang Song, Xu Han, Zhengyan Zhang, Shengding Hu, Xiyu Shi

MIDLM: Multi-Intent Detection with Bidirectional Large Language Models

Shangjian Yin, Peijie Huang, Yuhong Xu

A Compliance Checking Framework Based on Retrieval Augmented Generation

Jingyun Sun, Zhongze Luo, Yang Li

Simulating Dual-Process Thinking in Dialogue Topic Shift Detection

Huiyao Wang, Peifeng Li, Yaxin Fan, Qiaoming Zhu

Gradient Inversion Attack in Federated Learning: Exposing Text Data through Discrete Optimization

Ying Gao, Yuxin Xie, Huanghao Deng, Zukun Zhu

How Many Languages Make Good Multilingual Instruction Tuning? A Case Study on BLOOM

Shaoxiong Ji, Pinzhen Chen

Implicit Discourse Relation Classification For Nigerian Pidgin

Muhammed Saeed, Peter Bourgonje, Vera Demberg

MiMoTable: A Multi-scale Spreadsheet Benchmark with Meta Operations for Table Reasoning

Zheng Li, Yang Du, Mao Zheng, Mingyang Song

Aligning Large Language Models with Human Opinions through Persona Selection and Value–Belief–Norm Reasoning

Do Xuan Long, Kenji Kawaguchi, Min-Yen Kan, Nancy Chen

Learning Transition Patterns by Large Language Models for Sequential Recommendation

Jianyang Zhai, Zi-Feng Mai, Dongyi Zheng, Chang-Dong Wang, Xiawu Zheng

DialogueMMT: Dialogue Scenes Understanding Enhanced Multi-modal Multi-task Tuning for Emotion Recognition in Conversations

Chenyuan He, Senbin Zhu, Hongde Liu, Fei Gao, Yuxiang Jia

Enhancing Knowledge Distillation of Large Language Models through Efficient Multi-Modal Distribution Alignment

Tianyu Peng, Jiajun Zhang

From Multiple-Choice to Extractive QA: A Case Study for English and Arabic

Teresa Lynn, Malik H. Altakrori, Samar M. Magdy, Rocktim Jyoti Das, Chenyang Lyu

Discrete Subgraph Sampling for Interpretable Graph based Visual Question Answering

Pascal Tilli, Ngoc Thang Vu

GL-GAN: Perceiving and Integrating Global and Local Styles for Handwritten Text Generation with Mamba

Yiming Wang, Hongxi Wei, Heng Wang, Shiwen Sun, Chao He

How Transliterations Improve Crosslingual Alignment

Yihong Liu, Mingyang Wang, Amir Hossein Kargaran, Ayyoob ImaniGooghari, Orgest Xhelili

Chain-of-Specificity: Enhancing Task-Specific Constraint Adherence in Large Language Models

Kaiwen Wei, Jiang Zhong, Hongzhi Zhang, Fuzheng Zhang, Di Zhang

LLMs Know What They Need: Leveraging a Missing Information Guided Framework to Empower Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Keheng Wang, Feiyu Duan, Peiguang Li, Sirui Wang, Xunliang Cai

Exploring the Impact of Language Switching on Personality Traits in LLMs

Jacopo Amidei, Jose Gregorio Ferreira De Sá, Rubén Nieto Luna, Andreas Kaltenbrunner

CausalScore: An Automatic Reference-Free Metric for Assessing Response Relevance in Open-Domain Dialogue Systems

Tao Feng, Lizhen Qu, Xiaoxi Kang, Gholamreza Haffari

Enhancing Online Grooming Detection via Backtranslation Augmentation

Hamed Waezi, Hossein Fani

E-Bench: Towards Evaluating the Ease-of-Use of Large Language Models

Zhenyu Zhang, Bingguang Hao, Jinpeng Li, Zekai Zhang, Dongyan Zhao

AsymKV: Enabling 1-Bit Quantization of KV Cache with Layer-Wise Asymmetric Quantization Configurations

Qian Tao, Wenyuan Yu, Jingren Zhou

Towards Faithful Multi-step Reasoning through Fine-Grained Causal-aware Attribution Reasoning Distillation

Zheng Chu, Jingchang Chen, Zhongjie Wang, Guo Tang, Qianglong Chen

DnA-Eval: Enhancing Large Language Model Evaluation through Decomposition and Aggregation

Minzhi Li, Zhengyuan Liu, Shumin Deng, Shafiq Joty, Nancy Chen

Generating Commonsense Reasoning Questions with Controllable Complexity through Multi-step Structural Composition

Jianxing Yu, Shiqi Wang, Hanjiang Lai, Wenqing Chen, Yanghui Rao

Automatic Multiple-Choice Question Generation and Evaluation Systems Based on LLM: A Study Case With University Resolutions

Sérgio Silva Mucciaccia, Thiago Meireles Paixão, Filipe Wall Mutz, Claudine Santos Badue, Alberto Ferreira de Souza

Integrating Group-based Preferences from Coarse to Fine for Cold-start Users Recommendation

Siyu Wang, Jianhui Jiang, Jiangtao Qiu, Shengran Dai

Leveraging Explicit Reasoning for Inference Integration in Commonsense-Augmented Dialogue Models

Sarah E. Finch, Jinho D. Choi

Clear Up Confusion: Iterative Differential Generation for Fine-grained Intent Detection with Contrastive Feedback

Feng Zhang, Wei Chen, Meng Gao, Fei Ding, Tengjiao Wang

Commonsense Subgraph for Inductive Relation Reasoning with Meta-learning

Feng Zhao, Zhilu Zhang, Cheng Yan, Xianggan Liu

ROUGE-SciQFS: A ROUGE-based Method to Automatically Create Datasets for Scientific Query-Focused Summarization

Juan Ramirez-Orta, Ana Maguitman, Axel J. Soto, Evangelos Milios

Enhancing Long-range Dependency with State Space Model and Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

Adamu Lawan, Juhua Pu, Haruna Yunusa, Aliyu Umar, Muhammad Lawan

From Form to Meaning: The Case of Particles within the Prague Dependency Treebank Annotation Scheme

Marie Mikulová, Barbora Štěpánková, Jan Štěpánek

“Not Aligned” is Not “Malicious”: Being Careful about Hallucinations of Large Language Models’ Jailbreak

Lingrui Mei, Shenghua Liu, Yiwei Wang, Baolong Bi, Jiayi Mao

Looking at the Unseen: Effective Sampling of Non-Related Propositions for Argument Mining

Ramon Ruiz-Dolz, Debela Gemechu, Zlata Kikteva, Chris Reed

Scene Graph and Dependency Grammar Enhanced Remote Sensing Change Caption Network (SGD-RSCCN)

Qiaoli Sun, Yan Wang, Xiaoyu Song

What’s Wrong? Refining Meeting Summaries with LLM Feedback

Frederic Kirstein, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp

TEEMIL : Towards Educational MCQ Difficulty Estimation in Indic Languages

Manikandan Ravikiran, Siddharth Vohra, Rajat Verma, Rohit Saluja, Arnav Bhavsar

From Detection to Explanation: Effective Learning Strategies for LLMs in Online Abusive Language Research

Chiara Di Bonaventura, Lucia Siciliani, Pierpaolo Basile, Albert Merono Penuela, Barbara McGillivray

RoLargeSum: A Large Dialect-Aware Romanian News Dataset for Summary, Headline, and Keyword Generation

Andrei-Marius Avram, Mircea Timpuriu, Andreea Iuga, Vlad-Cristian Matei, Iulian-Marius Taiatu

Trucidator: Document-level Event Factuality Identification via Hallucination Enhancement and Cross-Document Inference

Zihao Zhang, Zhong Qian, Xiaoxu Zhu, Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu

Word-level Cross-lingual Structure in Large Language Models

Zihao Feng, Hailong Cao, Wang Xu, Tiejun Zhao

Enhancing Zero-shot Chain of Thought Prompting via Uncertainty-Guided Strategy Selection

Shanu Kumar, Saish Mendke, Karody Lubna Abdul Rahman, Santosh Kurasa, Parag Agrawal

Rethinking the Alignment of Psychotherapy Dialogue Generation with Motivational Interviewing Strategies

Xin Sun, Xiao Tang, Abdallah El Ali, Zhuying Li, Pengjie Ren

How Well Can Large Language Models Reflect? A Human Evaluation of LLM-generated Reflections for Motivational Interviewing Dialogues

Erkan Basar, Xin Sun, Iris Hendrickx, Jan de Wit, Tibor Bosse

NYT-Connections: A Deceptively Simple Text Classification Task that Stumps System-1 Thinkers

Angel Yahir Loredo Lopez, Tyler McDonald, Ali Emami

Are Your Keywords Like My Queries? A Corpus-Wide Evaluation of Keyword Extractors with Real Searches

Martina Galletti, Giulio Prevedello, Emanuele Brugnoli, Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo, Pietro Gravino

LTRS: Improving Word Sense Disambiguation via Learning to Rank Senses

Hansi Wang, Yue Wang, Qiliang Liang, Yang Liu

Rethinking Long Context Generation from the Continual Learning Perspective

Zeyuan Yang, Fangzhou Xiong, Peng Li, Yang Liu

SubRegWeigh: Effective and Efficient Annotation Weighing with Subword Regularization

Kohei Tsuji, Tatsuya Hiraoka, Yuchang Cheng, Tomoya Iwakura

MLD-EA: Check and Complete Narrative Coherence by Introducing Emotions and Actions

Jinming Zhang, Yunfei Long

Efficient Solutions For An Intriguing Failure of LLMs: Long Context Window Does Not Mean LLMs Can Analyze Long Sequences Flawlessly

Peyman Hosseini, Ignacio Castro, Iacopo Ghinassi, Matthew Purver

Does Vision Accelerate Hierarchical Generalization in Neural Language Learners?

Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Timothy Baldwin