COLING 2025

1,226 papers

Comparative Analysis of Religious Texts: NLP Approaches to the Bible, Quran, and Bhagavad Gita

Mahit Nandan A D, Ishan Godbole, Pranav M Kapparad, Shrutilipi Bhattacharjee

The Algorithm is the Message: Computing as a Humor-Generating Mode

Vittorio Marone

The Theater Stage as Laboratory: Review of Real-Time Comedy LLM Systems for Live Performance

Piotr Mirowski, Kory Mathewson, Boyd Branch

Evaluating Human Perception and Bias in AI-Generated Humor

Narendra Nath Joshi

Can AI Make Us Laugh? Comparing Jokes Generated by Witscript and a Human Expert

Joe Toplyn, Ori Amir

Pragmatic Metacognitive Prompting Improves LLM Performance on Sarcasm Detection

Joshua Lee, Wyatt Fong, Alexander Le, Sur Shah, Kevin Han

Testing Humor Theory Using Word and Sentence Embeddings

Stephen Skalicky, Salvatore Attardo

Bridging Laughter Across Languages: Generation of Hindi-English Code-mixed Puns

Likhith Asapu, Prashant Kodali, Ashna Dua, Kapil Rajesh Kavitha, Manish Shrivastava

Homophonic Pun Generation in Code Mixed Hindi English

Yash Raj Sarrof

Rule-based Approaches to the Automatic Generation of Puns Based on Given Names in French

Mathieu Dehouck, Marine Delaborde

Text Is Not All You Need: Multimodal Prompting Helps LLMs Understand Humor

Ashwin Baluja

The Exception of Humor: Iconicity, Phonemic Surprisal, Memory Recall, and Emotional Associations

Alexander Kilpatrick, Maria Flaksman

SKPD Emergency @ NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Devanagari Script Classification using CBOW Embeddings with Attention-Enhanced BiLSTM

Shubham Shakya, Saral Sainju, Subham Krishna Shrestha, Prekshya Dawadi, Shreya Khatiwada

Paramananda@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Detection of Language, Hate Speech and Targets using FastText and BERT

Darwin Acharya, Sundeep Dawadi, Shivram Saud, Sunil Regmi

One_by_zero@ NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Target Identification for Hate Speech Leveraging Transformer-based Approach

Dola Chakraborty, Jawad Hossain, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque

NLPineers@ NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Hate Speech Detection using Ensembling of BERT-based models

Anmol Guragain, Nadika Poudel, Rajesh Piryani, Bishesh Khanal

Nepali Transformers@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Detection of Language, Hate Speech and Targets

Pilot Khadka, Ankit Bk, Ashish Acharya, Bikram K.c., Sandesh Shrestha

MDSBots@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Detection of Language, Hate Speech, and Targets using MURTweet

Prabhat Ale, Anish Thapaliya, Suman Paudel

LLMsAgainstHate@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Hate Speech Detection and Target Identification in Devanagari Languages via Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLMs

Rushendra Sidibomma, Pransh Patwa, Parth Patwa, Aman Chadha, Vinija Jain

IITR-CIOL@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Multilingual Hate Speech Detection and Target Identification in Devanagari-Scripted Languages

Siddhant Gupta, Siddh Singhal, Azmine Toushik Wasi

DSLNLP@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Leveraging BERT-based Architectures for Language Identification, Hate Speech Detection and Target Classification

Shraddha Chauhan, Abhinav Kumar

Dll5143A@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Detection of Hate Speech and Targets Using Hierarchical Attention Network

Ashok Yadav, Vrijendra Singh

CUFE@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Language Identification using fastText

Michael Ibrahim

CUET_INSights@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Leveraging Transformer-based Models for Target Identification in Hate Speech

Farjana Alam Tofa, Lorin Tasnim Zeba, Md Osama, Ashim Dey

CUET_HateShield@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Transformer-Based Hate Speech Detection in Devanagari Script Languages

Sumaiya Rahman Aodhora, Shawly Ahsan, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque

CUET_Big_O@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Identifying Script Language and Detecting Hate Speech Using Deep Learning and Transformer Model

Md. Refaj Hossan, Nazmus Sakib, Md. Alam Miah, Jawad Hossain, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque

byteSizedLLM@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Language Identification Using Customized Attention BiLSTM and XLM-RoBERTa base Embeddings

Durga Prasad Manukonda, Rohith Gowtham Kodali

byteSizedLLM@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Hate Speech Detection and Target Identification Using Customized Attention BiLSTM and XLM-RoBERTa Base Embeddings

Rohith Gowtham Kodali, Durga Prasad Manukonda, Daniel Iglesias

AniSan@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Optimizing Language Identification with Ensemble Learning

Anik Mahmud Shanto, Mst. Sanjida Jamal Priya, Mohammad Shamsul Arefin

1-800-SHARED-TASKS@NLU of Devanagari Script Languages 2025: Detection of Language, Hate Speech, and Targets using LLMs

Jebish Purbey, Siddartha Pullakhandam, Kanwal Mehreen, Muhammad Arham, Drishti Sharma

Challenges in Adapting Multilingual LLMs to Low-Resource Languages using LoRA PEFT Tuning

Omkar Khade, Shruti Jagdale, Abhishek Phaltankar, Gauri Takalikar, Raviraj Joshi

Leveraging Machine-Generated Data for Joint Intent Detection and Slot Filling in Bangla: A Resource-Efficient Approach

A H M Rezaul Karim, Ozlem Uzuner

Benchmarking Whisper for Low-Resource Speech Recognition: An N-Shot Evaluation on Pashto, Punjabi, and Urdu

Najm Ul Sehar, Ayesha Khalid, Farah Adeeba, Sarmad Hussain

EmoTa: A Tamil Emotional Speech Dataset

Jubeerathan Thevakumar, Luxshan Thavarasa, Thanikan Sivatheepan, Sajeev Kugarajah, Uthayasanker Thayasivam

Impacts of Vocoder Selection on Tacotron-based Nepali Text-To-Speech Synthesis

Ganesh Dhakal Chhetri, Kiran Chandra Dahal, Prakash Poudyal

Bridging the Bandwidth Gap: A Mixed Band Telephonic Urdu ASR Approach with Domain Adaptation for Banking Applications

Ayesha Khalid, Farah Adeeba, Najm Ul Sehar, Sarmad Hussain

neDIOM: Dataset and Analysis of Nepali Idioms

Rhitabrat Pokharel, Ameeta Agrawal

POS-Aware Neural Approaches for Word Alignment in Dravidian Languages

Antony Alexander James, Parameswari Krishnamurthy

Domain-adaptative Continual Learning for Low-resource Tasks: Evaluation on Nepali

Sharad Duwal, Suraj Prasai, Suresh Manandhar

Structured Information Extraction from Nepali Scanned Documents using Layout Transformer and LLMs

Aayush Neupane, Aayush Lamichhane, Ankit Paudel, Aman Shakya

Abstractive Summarization of Low resourced Nepali language using Multilingual Transformers

Prakash Dhakal, Daya Sagar Baral

A Dual Contrastive Learning Framework for Enhanced Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Languages

Krishan Chavinda, Uthayasanker Thayasivam

Bridge the GAP: Multi-lingual Models For Ambiguous Pronominal Coreference Resolution in South Asian Languages

Rahothvarman P, Adith John Rajeev, Kaveri Anuranjana, Radhika Mamidi

Sandhi Splitting in Tamil and Telugu: A Sequence-to-Sequence Approach Leveraging Transformer Models

Priyanka Dasari, Mupparapu Sohan Gupta, Nagaraju Vuppala, Pruthwik Mishra, Parameswari Krishnamurthy

SiTa - Sinhala and Tamil Speaker Diarization Dataset in the Wild

Uthayasanker Thayasivam, Thulasithan Gnanenthiram, Shamila Jeewantha, Upeksha Jayawickrama

Natural Language Understanding of Devanagari Script Languages: Language Identification, Hate Speech and its Target Detection

Surendrabikram Thapa, Kritesh Rauniyar, Farhan Ahmad Jafri, Surabhi Adhikari, Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran

Improving Accuracy of Low-resource ASR using Rule-Based Character Constituency Loss (RBCCL)

Rupak Raj Ghimire, Prakash Poudyal, Bal Krishna Bal

DweshVaani: An LLM for Detecting Religious Hate Speech in Code-Mixed Hindi-English

Varad Srivastava

Bengali ChartSumm: A Benchmark Dataset and study on feasibility of Large Language Models on Bengali Chart to Text Summarization

Nahida Akter Tanjila, Afrin Sultana Poushi, Sazid Abdullah Farhan, Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal, Md. Azam Hossain

Benchmarking the Performance of Pre-trained LLMs across Urdu NLP Tasks

Munief Hassan Tahir, Sana Shams, Layba Fiaz, Farah Adeeba, Sarmad Hussain

Development of Pre-Trained Transformer-based Models for the Nepali Language

Prajwal Thapa, Jinu Nyachhyon, Mridul Sharma, Bal Krishna Bal

A Brief Overview of the First Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL)

Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, Surendrabikram Thapa, Sana Shams, Ashwini Vaidya, Bal Krishna Bal

SELEXINI – a large and diverse automatically parsed corpus of French

Manon Scholivet, Agata Savary, Louis Estève, Marie Candito, Carlos Ramisch

Comparable Corpora: Opportunities for New Research Directions

Kenneth Ward Church

Can a Neural Model Guide Fieldwork? A Case Study on Morphological Data Collection

Aso Mahmudi, Borja Herce, Demian Inostroza Améstica, Andreas Scherbakov, Eduard H. Hovy

The Role of Handling Attributive Nouns in Improving Chinese-To-English Machine Translation

Adam Meyers, Rodolfo Joel Zevallos, John E. Ortega, Lisa Wang

Refining Dimensions for Improving Clustering-based Cross-lingual Topic Models

Chia-Hsuan Chang, Tien Yuan Huang, Yi-Hang Tsai, Chia-Ming Chang, San-Yih Hwang

BEIR-NL: Zero-shot Information Retrieval Benchmark for the Dutch Language

Ehsan Lotfi, Nikolay Banar, Walter Daelemans

Make Satire Boring Again: Reducing Stylistic Bias of Satirical Corpus by Utilizing Generative LLMs

Asli Umay Ozturk, Recep Firat Cekinel, Pinar Karagoz

Towards Truly Open, Language-Specific, Safe, Factual, and Specialized Large Language Models

Preslav Nakov

Harmonizing Annotation of Turkic Postverbial Constructions: A Comparative Study of UD Treebanks

Arofat Akhundjanova

Bilingual resources for Moroccan Sign Language Generation and Standard Arabic Skills Improvement of Deaf Children

Abdelhadi Soudi, Corinne Vinopol, Kristof Van Laerhoven

Evaluating RAG Pipelines for Arabic Lexical Information Retrieval: A Comparative Study of Embedding and Generation Models

Raghad Al-Rasheed, Abdullah Al Muaddi, Hawra Aljasim, Rawan Al-Matham, Muneera Alhoshan

Evaluation of Large Language Models on Arabic Punctuation Prediction

Asma Ali Al Wazrah, Afrah Altamimi, Hawra Aljasim, Waad Alshammari, Rawan Al-Matham

Automated Generation of Arabic Verb Conjugations with Multilingual Urdu Translation: An NLP Approach

Haq Nawaz, Manal Elobaid, Ali Al-Laith, Saif Ullah

Can LLMs Translate Cultural Nuance in Dialects? A Case Study on Lebanese Arabic

Silvana Yakhni, Ali Chehab

Can LLMs Verify Arabic Claims? Evaluating the Arabic Fact-Checking Abilities of Multilingual LLMs

Ayushman Gupta, Aryan Singhal, Thomas Law, Veekshith Rao, Evan Duan

Evaluating Large Language Models on Health-Related Claims Across Arabic Dialects

Abdulsalam obaid Alharbi, Abdullah Alsuhaibani, Abdulrahman Abdullah Alalawi, Usman Naseem, Shoaib Jameel

Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Tweets Using Large Language Models

Pankaj Dadure, Ananya Dixit, Kunal Tewatia, Nandini Paliwal, Anshika Malla

A Derivational ChainBank for Modern Standard Arabic

Reham Marzouk, Sondos Krouna, Nizar Habash

Psychological Health Chatbot, Detecting and Assisting Patients in their Path to Recovery

Sadegh Jafari, Mohammad Erfan Zare, Amireza Vishte, Mirzae Melike, Zahra Amiri

Boosting Sentiment Analysis in Persian through a GAN-Based Synthetic Data Augmentation Method

Masoumeh Mohammadi, Mohammad Ruhul Amin, Shadi Tavakoli

Developing an Informal-Formal Persian Corpus: Highlighting the Differences between Two Writing Styles

Vahide Tajalli, Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Fateme Kalantari

DadmaTools V2: an Adapter-Based Natural Language Processing Toolkit for the Persian Language

Sadegh Jafari, Farhan Farsi, Navid Ebrahimi, Mohamad Bagher Sajadi, Sauleh Eetemadi

In-Depth Analysis of Arabic-Origin Words in the Turkish Morpholex

Mounes Zaval, Abdullah İhsanoğlu, Asım Ersoy, Olcay Taner Yıldız

Towards Unified Processing of Perso-Arabic Scripts for ASR

Srihari Bandarupalli, Bhavana Akkiraju, Sri Charan Devarakonda, Harinie Sivaramasethu, Vamshiraghusimha Narasinga

MultiProp Framework: Ensemble Models for Enhanced Cross-Lingual Propaganda Detection in Social Media and News using Data Augmentation, Text Segmentation, and Meta-Learning

Farizeh Aldabbas, Shaina Ashraf, Rafet Sifa, Lucie Flek

The Best of Both Worlds: Exploring Wolofal in the Context of NLP

Ngoc Tan Le, Ali Mijiyawa, Abdoulahat Leye, Fatiha Sadat

Teaching-Inspired Integrated Prompting Framework: A Novel Approach for Enhancing Reasoning in Large Language Models

Wenting Tan, Dongxiao Chen, Jieting Xue, Zihao Wang, Taijie Chen

RecStream: Graph-aware Stream Management for Concurrent Recommendation Model Online Serving

Shuxi Guo, Qi Qi, Haifeng Sun, Jianxin Liao, Jingyu Wang

Neural Document Segmentation Using Weighted Sliding Windows with Transformer Encoders

Saeed Abbasi, Aijun An, Heidar Davoudi, Ron Di Carlantonio, Gary Farmaner

LLM ContextBridge: A Hybrid Approach for Intent and Dialogue Understanding in IVSR

Changwoo Chun, Daniel Rim, Juhee Park

Towards Boosting LLMs-driven Relevance Modeling with Progressive Retrieved Behavior-augmented Prompting

Zeyuan Chen, Haiyan Wu, Kaixin Wu, Wei Chen, Mingjie Zhong

Efficient Vocabulary Reduction for Small Language Models

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

SCV: Light and Effective Multi-Vector Retrieval with Sequence Compressive Vectors

Cheoneum Park, Seohyeong Jeong, Minsang Kim, KyungTae Lim, Yong-Hun Lee

RE-FIN: Retrieval-based Enrichment for Financial data

Lorenzo Malandri, Fabio Mercorio, Mario Mezzanzanica, Filippo Pallucchini

REVerSum: A Multi-staged Retrieval-Augmented Generation Method to Enhance Wikipedia Tail Biographies through Personal Narratives

Sayantan Adak, Pauras Mangesh Meher, Paramita Das, Animesh Mukherjee

LionGuard: A Contextualized Moderation Classifier to Tackle Localized Unsafe Content

Jessica Foo, Shaun Khoo

Zero-shot Slot Filling in the Age of LLMs for Dialogue Systems

Mansi Rana, Kadri Hacioglu, Sindhuja Gopalan, Maragathamani Boothalingam

Lightweight Safety Guardrails Using Fine-tuned BERT Embeddings

Aaron Zheng, Mansi Rana, Andreas Stolcke

UCTG: A Unified Controllable Text Generation Framework for Query Auto-Completion

Zhipeng Li, Shuang Zheng, Jiaping Xiao, Xianneng Li, Lei Wang

Aurora-M: Open Source Continual Pre-training for Multilingual Language and Code

Taishi Nakamura, Mayank Mishra, Simone Tedeschi, Yekun Chai, Jason T. Stillerman

LoRA Soups: Merging LoRAs for Practical Skill Composition Tasks

Akshara Prabhakar, Yuanzhi Li, Karthik Narasimhan, Sham Kakade, Eran Malach

ChartGemma: Visual Instruction-tuning for Chart Reasoning in the Wild

Ahmed Masry, Megh Thakkar, Aayush Bajaj, Aaryaman Kartha, Enamul Hoque

DaCoM: Strategies to Construct Domain-specific Low-resource Language Machine Translation Dataset

Junghoon Kang, Keunjoo Tak, Joungsu Choi, Myunghyun Kim, Junyoung Jang

An Automatic Method to Estimate Correctness of RAG

Chi Zhang, Vivek V. Datla, Aditya Shrivastava, Alfy Samuel, Zhiqi Huang

UR2N: Unified Retriever and ReraNker

Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Jaydeep Sen, Rudra Murthy, Vignesh P

LAW: Legal Agentic Workflows for Custody and Fund Services Contracts

William Watson, Nicole Cho, Nishan Srishankar, Zhen Zeng, Lucas Cecchi

Learning to Rewrite Negation Queries in Product Search

Mengtian Guo, Mutasem Al-Darabsah, Choon Hui Teo, Jonathan May, Tarun Agarwal

Is my Meeting Summary Good? Estimating Quality with a Multi-LLM Evaluator

Frederic Kirstein, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp