COLING 2025

1,226 papers

Get Confused Cautiously: Textual Sequence Memorization Erasure with Selective Entropy Maximization

Zhaohan Zhang, Ziquan Liu, Ioannis Patras

Beyond Boundaries: Learning a Universal Entity Taxonomy across Datasets and Languages for Open Named Entity Recognition

Yuming Yang, Wantong Zhao, Caishuang Huang, Junjie Ye, Xiao Wang

MESAQA: A Dataset for Multi-Span Contextual and Evidence-Grounded Question Answering

Jui-I Wang, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

From Chaotic OCR Words to Coherent Document: A Fine-to-Coarse Zoom-Out Network for Complex-Layout Document Image Translation

Zhiyang Zhang, Yaping Zhang, Yupu Liang, Lu Xiang, Yang Zhao

Text-Attributed Graph Learning with Coupled Augmentations

Chuang Zhou, Jiahe Du, Huachi Zhou, Hao Chen, Feiran Huang

SUMIE: A Synthetic Benchmark for Incremental Entity Summarization

EunJeong Hwang, Yichao Zhou, Beliz Gunel, James Bradley Wendt, Sandeep Tata

Interpreting Topic Models in Byte-Pair Encoding Space

Jia Peng Lim, Hady Lauw

Beyond Chain-of-Thought: A Survey of Chain-of-X Paradigms for LLMs

Yu Xia, Rui Wang, Xu Liu, Mingyan Li, Tong Yu

GADFA: Generator-Assisted Decision-Focused Approach for Opinion Expressing Timing Identification

Chung-Chi Chen, Hiroya Takamura, Ichiro Kobayashi, Yusuke Miyao, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Model based Few-shot Chinese Spell Checking

Ming Dong, Zhiwei Cheng, Changyin Luo, Tingting He

LAiW: A Chinese Legal Large Language Models Benchmark

Yongfu Dai, Duanyu Feng, Jimin Huang, Haochen Jia, Qianqian Xie

Driving Chinese Spelling Correction from a Fine-Grained Perspective

Linfeng Liu, Hongqiu Wu, Hai Zhao

An LLM-based Framework for Biomedical Terminology Normalization in Social Media via Multi-Agent Collaboration

Yongqi Fan, Kui Xue, Zelin Li, Xiaofan Zhang, Tong Ruan

Scalability of Bayesian Network Structure Elicitation with Large Language Models: a Novel Methodology and Comparative Analysis

Nikolay Babakov, Ehud Reiter, Alberto Bugarín-Diz

A Collaborative Reasoning Framework Powered by Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models for Complex Questions Answering over Knowledge Graph

Zhiqiang Zhang, Wen Zhao

MDPO: Customized Direct Preference Optimization with a Metric-based Sampler for Question and Answer Generation

Yihang Wang, Bowen Tian, Yueyang Su, Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo

Evaluating the Consistency of LLM Evaluators

Noah Lee, Jiwoo Hong, James Thorne

Investigating Bias in LLM-Based Bias Detection: Disparities between LLMs and Human Perception

Luyang Lin, Lingzhi Wang, Jinsong Guo, Kam-Fai Wong

Understanding Token Probability Encoding in Output Embeddings

Hakaze Cho, Yoshihiro Sakai, Kenshiro Tanaka, Mariko Kato, Naoya Inoue

Converging to a Lingua Franca: Evolution of Linguistic Regions and Semantics Alignment in Multilingual Large Language Models

Hongchuan Zeng, Senyu Han, Lu Chen, Kai Yu

Leveraging LLM-Generated Schema Descriptions for Unanswerable Question Detection in Clinical Data

Donghee Han, Seungjae Lim, Daeyoung Roh, Sangryul Kim, Sehyun Kim

From Facts to Insights: A Study on the Generation and Evaluation of Analytical Reports for Deciphering Earnings Calls

Tomas Goldsack, Yang Wang, Chenghua Lin, Chung-Chi Chen

Extracting the Essence and Discarding the Dross: Enhancing Code Generation with Contrastive Execution Feedback

Xuanyu Zhang, Qing Yang

Counterfactual Debating with Preset Stances for Hallucination Elimination of LLMs

Yi Fang, Moxin Li, Wenjie Wang, Lin Hui, Fuli Feng

Comet: Dialog Context Fusion Mechanism for End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog with Multi-task Learning

Haipeng Sun, Junwei Bao, Youzheng Wu, Xiaodong He

NCRE: A Benchmark for Document-level Nominal Compound Relation Extraction

Jincheng Cao, Bobo Li, Jiang Liu, Donghong Ji

Efficient Architectures for High Resolution Vision-Language Models

Miguel Carvalho, Bruno Martins

IberoBench: A Benchmark for LLM Evaluation in Iberian Languages

Irene Baucells, Javier Aula-Blasco, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Silvia Paniagua Suárez, Naiara Perez

KG-FPQ: Evaluating Factuality Hallucination in LLMs with Knowledge Graph-based False Premise Questions

Yanxu Zhu, Jinlin Xiao, Yuhang Wang, Jitao Sang

Consistency Rating of Semantic Transparency: an Evaluation Method for Metaphor Competence in Idiom Understanding Tasks

Hui Gao, Jing Zhang, Peng Zhang, Chang Yang

Making Task-Oriented Dialogue Datasets More Natural by Synthetically Generating Indirect User Requests

Amogh Mannekote, Jinseok Nam, Ziming Li, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Bonnie J. Dorr

Let LLMs Take on the Latest Challenges! A Chinese Dynamic Question Answering Benchmark

Zhikun Xu, Yinghui Li, Ruixue Ding, Xinyu Wang, Boli Chen

VisualRWKV: Exploring Recurrent Neural Networks for Visual Language Models

Haowen Hou, Peigen Zeng, Fei Ma, Fei Richard Yu

ICLEval: Evaluating In-Context Learning Ability of Large Language Models

Wentong Chen, Yankai Lin, ZhenHao Zhou, HongYun Huang, Yantao Jia

In-Context Reinforcement Learning with Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Text-to-SQL

Rishit Toteja, Arindam Sarkar, Prakash Mandayam Comar

BANER: Boundary-Aware LLMs for Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition

Quanjiang Guo, Yihong Dong, Ling Tian, Zhao Kang, Yu Zhang

Evaluating Transformers for OCR Post-Correction in Early Modern Dutch Theatre

Florian Debaene, Aaron Maladry, Els Lefever, Véronique Hoste

Dynamics of Instruction Fine-Tuning for Chinese Large Language Models

Chiyu Song, Zhanchao Zhou, Jianhao Yan, Yuejiao Fei, Zhenzhong Lan

Exploring the Reliability of Large Language Models as Customized Evaluators for Diverse NLP Tasks

Qintong Li, Leyang Cui, Lingpeng Kong, Wei Bi

On Weaponization-Resistant Large Language Models with Prospect Theoretic Alignment

Zehua Cheng, Manying Zhang, Jiahao Sun, Wei Dai

Self-Evolution Knowledge Distillation for LLM-based Machine Translation

Yuncheng Song, Liang Ding, Changtong Zan, Shujian Huang

VoxpopuliTTS: a large-scale multilingual TTS corpus for zero-shot speech generation

Wenrui Liu, Jionghao Bai, Xize Cheng, Jialong Zuo, Ziyue Jiang

Who Wrote This? The Key to Zero-Shot LLM-Generated Text Detection Is GECScore

Junchao Wu, Runzhe Zhan, Derek F. Wong, Shu Yang, Xuebo Liu

Bridging Context Gaps: Enhancing Comprehension in Long-Form Social Conversations Through Contextualized Excerpts

Shrestha Mohanty, Sarah Xuan, Jacob Jobraeel, Anurag Kumar, Deb Roy

Decompose-ToM: Enhancing Theory of Mind Reasoning in Large Language Models through Simulation and Task Decomposition

Sneheel Sarangi, Maha Elgarf, Hanan Salam

Can LLMs Help Create Grammar?: Automating Grammar Creation for Endangered Languages with In-Context Learning

Piyapath T. Spencer, Nanthipat Kongborrirak

AI Hospital: Benchmarking Large Language Models in a Multi-agent Medical Interaction Simulator

Zhihao Fan, Lai Wei, Jialong Tang, Wei Chen, Wang Siyuan

MoKA:Parameter Efficiency Fine-Tuning via Mixture of Kronecker Product Adaption

Beiming Yu, Zhenfei Yang, Xiushuang Yi

Cross-Dialect Information Retrieval: Information Access in Low-Resource and High-Variance Languages

Robert Litschko, Oliver Kraus, Verena Blaschke, Barbara Plank

Unveiling Language Competence Neurons: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Model Interpretability

Xufeng Duan, Xinyu Zhou, Bei Xiao, Zhenguang Cai

FarExStance: Explainable Stance Detection for Farsi

Majid Zarharan, Maryam Hashemi, Malika Behroozrazegh, Sauleh Eetemadi, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Cross-Lingual Knowledge Projection and Knowledge Enhancement for Zero-Shot Question Answering in Low-Resource Languages

Sello Ralethe, Jan Buys

A High-Quality Text-Rich Image Instruction Tuning Dataset via Hybrid Instruction Generation

Shijie Zhou, Ruiyi Zhang, Yufan Zhou, Changyou Chen

Enhancing Nursing and Elderly Care with Large Language Models: An AI-Driven Framework

Qiao Sun, Jiexin Xie, Nanyang Ye, Qinying Gu, Shijie Guo

Planning with Multi-Constraints via Collaborative Language Agents

Cong Zhang, Xin Deik Goh, Dexun Li, Hao Zhang, Yong Liu

How Ambiguous Are the Rationales for Natural Language Reasoning? A Simple Approach to Handling Rationale Uncertainty

Hazel H. Kim

CUTE: A Multilingual Dataset for Enhancing Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer in Low-Resource Languages

Wenhao Zhuang, Yuan Sun

Does RAG Introduce Unfairness in LLMs? Evaluating Fairness in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Xuyang Wu, Shuowei Li, Hsin-Tai Wu, Zhiqiang Tao, Yi Fang

Decoding Decoded: Understanding Hyperparameter Effects in Open-Ended Text Generation

Esteban Garces Arias, Meimingwei Li, Christian Heumann, Matthias Assenmacher

Searching for Structure: Investigating Emergent Communication with Large Language Models

Tom Kouwenhoven, Max Peeperkorn, Tessa Verhoef

Development of Numerical Error Detection Tasks to Analyze the Numerical Capabilities of Language Models

Taku Sakamoto, Saku Sugawara, Akiko Aizawa

IRR: Image Review Ranking Framework for Evaluating Vision-Language Models

Kazuki Hayashi, Kazuma Onishi, Toma Suzuki, Yusuke Ide, Seiji Gobara

AIGT: AI Generative Table Based on Prompt

Mingming Zhang, Zhiqing Xiao, Guoshan Lu, Sai Wu, Weiqiang Wang

An Efficient Retrieval-Based Method for Tabular Prediction with LLM

Jie Wu, Mengshu Hou

Few-shot domain adaptation for named-entity recognition via joint constrained k-means and subspace selection

Ayoub Hammal, Benno Uthayasooriyar, Caio Corro

GAProtoNet: A Multi-head Graph Attention-based Prototypical Network for Interpretable Text Classification

Ximing Wen, Wenjuan Tan, Rosina Weber

Disentangle to Decay: Linear Attention with Trainable Decay Factor

Haibo Tong, Chenyang Zhang, Jiayi Lin, Bingxuan Hou, Qingqing Hong

Do Current Video LLMs Have Strong OCR Abilities? A Preliminary Study

Yulin Fei, Yuhui Gao, Xingyuan Xian, Xiaojin Zhang, Tao Wu

A Benchmark and Robustness Study of In-Context-Learning with Large Language Models in Music Entity Detection

Simon Hachmeier, Robert Jäschke

NesTools: A Dataset for Evaluating Nested Tool Learning Abilities of Large Language Models

Han Han, Tong Zhu, Xiang Zhang, MengSong Wu, Xiong Hao

CE-DA: Custom Embedding and Dynamic Aggregation for Zero-Shot Relation Extraction

Fu Zhang, He Liu, Zehan Li, Jingwei Cheng

Mitigating the Discrepancy Between Video and Text Temporal Sequences: A Time-Perception Enhanced Video Grounding method for LLM

Xuefen Li, Bo Wang, Ge Shi, Chong Feng, Jiahao Teng

Solid-SQL: Enhanced Schema-linking based In-context Learning for Robust Text-to-SQL

Geling Liu, Yunzhi Tan, Ruichao Zhong, Yuanzhen Xie, Lingchen Zhao

Analyzing Offensive Language Dataset Insights from Training Dynamics and Human Agreement Level

Do-Kyung Kim, Hyeseon Ahn, Youngwook Kim, Yo-Sub Han

A Review of Prominent Paradigms for LLM-Based Agents: Tool Use, Planning (Including RAG), and Feedback Learning

Xinzhe Li

Reasoning Graph Enhanced Exemplars Retrieval for In-Context Learning

Yukang Lin, Bingchen Zhong, Shuoran Jiang, Joanna Siebert, Qingcai Chen

Zero-shot and Few-shot Learning with Instruction-following LLMs for Claim Matching in Automated Fact-checking

Dina Pisarevskaya, Arkaitz Zubiaga

MedEx: Enhancing Medical Question-Answering with First-Order Logic based Reasoning and Knowledge Injection

Aizan Zafar, Kshitij Mishra, Asif Ekbal

MSG-LLM: A Multi-scale Interactive Framework for Graph-enhanced Large Language Models

Jiayu Ding, Zhangkai Zheng, Benshuo Lin, Yun Xue, Yiping Song

MuKA: Multimodal Knowledge Augmented Visual Information-Seeking

Lianghao Deng, Yuchong Sun, Shizhe Chen, Ning Yang, Yunfeng Wang

It is not a piece of cake for GPT: Explaining Textual Entailment Recognition in the presence of Figurative Language

Giuseppe Gallipoli, Luca Cagliero

RUIE: Retrieval-based Unified Information Extraction using Large Language Model

Xincheng Liao, Junwen Duan, Yixi Huang, Jianxin Wang

AgriCLIP: Adapting CLIP for Agriculture and Livestock via Domain-Specialized Cross-Model Alignment

Umair Nawaz, Awais Muhammad, Hanan Gani, Muzammal Naseer, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Voice synthesis in Polish and English - analyzing prediction differences in speaker verification systems

Joanna Gajewska, Alicja Martinek, Michał J. Ołowski, Ewelina Bartuzi-Trokielewicz

RealSafe: Quantifying Safety Risks of Language Agents in Real-World

Yingning Ma

Beyond Film Subtitles: Is YouTube the Best Approximation of Spoken Vocabulary?

Adam Nohejl, Frederikus Hudi, Eunike Andriani Kardinata, Shintaro Ozaki, Maria Angelica Riera Machin

Hands-off Image Editing: Language-guided Editing without any Task-specific Labeling, Masking or even Training

Rodrigo Santos, António Branco, João Ricardo Silva, João Rodrigues

SCCD: A Session-based Dataset for Chinese Cyberbullying Detection

Qingpo Yang, Yakai Chen, Zihui Xu, Yu-Ming Shang, Sanchuan Guo

ME2-BERT: Are Events and Emotions what you need for Moral Foundation Prediction?

Lorenzo Zangari, Candida M. Greco, Davide Picca, Andrea Tagarelli

SLAM: Towards Efficient Multilingual Reasoning via Selective Language Alignment

Yuchun Fan, Yongyu Mu, Yilin Wang, Lei Huang, Junhao Ruan

Improved Sparse Upcycling for Instruction Tuning

Wangyi Jiang, Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

CACA: Context-Aware Cross-Attention Network for Extractive Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction

Bingfeng Chen, Haoran Xu, Yongqi Luo, Boyan Xu, Ruichu Cai

Ranking Over Scoring: Towards Reliable and Robust Automated Evaluation of LLM-Generated Medical Explanatory Arguments

Iker De La Iglesia, Iakes Goenaga, Johanna Ramirez-Romero, Jose Maria Villa-Gonzalez, Josu Goikoetxea

RISCORE: Enhancing In-Context Riddle Solving in Language Models through Context-Reconstructed Example Augmentation

Ioannis Panagiotopoulos, George Filandrianos, Maria Lymperaiou, Giorgos Stamou

Position Information Emerges in Causal Transformers Without Positional Encodings via Similarity of Nearby Embeddings

Chunsheng Zuo, Pavel Guerzhoy, Michael Guerzhoy

Cross-Domain Fake News Detection based on Dual-Granularity Adversarial Training

Wenjie Wei, Yanyue Zhang, Jinyan Li, Panfei Liu, Deyu Zhou

Let’s Focus on Neuron: Neuron-Level Supervised Fine-tuning for Large Language Model

Haoyun Xu, Runzhe Zhan, Yingpeng Ma, Derek F. Wong, Lidia S. Chao

InternLM-Law: An Open-Sourced Chinese Legal Large Language Model

Zhiwei Fei, Songyang Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen, Dawei Zhu, Xiao Wang

Dr.ECI: Infusing Large Language Models with Causal Knowledge for Decomposed Reasoning in Event Causality Identification

Ruichu Cai, Shengyin Yu, Jiahao Zhang, Wei Chen, Boyan Xu

Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models

Nishanth Madhusudhan, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, Vikas Yadav, Masoud Hashemi