COLING 2025

1,226 papers

Unveiling Fake News with Adversarial Arguments Generated by Multimodal Large Language Models

Xiaofan Zheng, Minnan Luo, Xinghao Wang

SGMEA: Structure-Guided Multimodal Entity Alignment

Jingwei Cheng, Mingxiao Guo, Fu Zhang

How Likely Do LLMs with CoT Mimic Human Reasoning?

Guangsheng Bao, Hongbo Zhang, Cunxiang Wang, Linyi Yang, Yue Zhang

Extrapolating to Unknown Opinions Using LLMs

Kexun Zhang, Jane Dwivedi-Yu, Zhaojiang Lin, Yuning Mao, William Yang Wang

Exploring the Impacts of Feature Fusion Strategy in Multi-modal Entity Alignment

Chenxiao Li, Jingwei Cheng, Qiang Tong, Fu Zhang

Norm of Mean Contextualized Embeddings Determines their Variance

Hiroaki Yamagiwa, Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Cross-lingual Evaluation of Multilingual Text Generation

Shamil Chollampatt, Minh Quang Pham, Sathish Reddy Indurthi, Marco Turchi

Mitigating Out-of-Entity Errors in Named Entity Recognition: A Sentence-Level Strategy

Guochao Jiang, Ziqin Luo, Chengwei Hu, Zepeng Ding, Deqing Yang

ProsodyFlow: High-fidelity Text-to-Speech through Conditional Flow Matching and Prosody Modeling with Large Speech Language Models

Haoyu Wang, Sizhe Shan, Yinlin Guo, Yuehai Wang

Linear Recency Bias During Training Improves Transformers’ Fit to Reading Times

Christian Clark, Byung-Doh Oh, William Schuler

EERPD: Leveraging Emotion and Emotion Regulation for Improving Personality Detection

Zheng Li, Sujian Li, Dawei Zhu, Qilong Ma, Weimin Xiong

AdaCQR: Enhancing Query Reformulation for Conversational Search via Sparse and Dense Retrieval Alignment

Yilong Lai, Jialong Wu, Congzhi Zhang, Haowen Sun, Deyu Zhou

How to Leverage Digit Embeddings to Represent Numbers?

Jasivan Alex Sivakumar, Nafise Sadat Moosavi

Enhancing Talk Moves Analysis in Mathematics Tutoring through Classroom Teaching Discourse

Jie Cao, Abhijit Suresh, Jennifer Jacobs, Charis Clevenger, Amanda Howard

Automatic Evaluation of Language Generation Technology Based on Structure Alignment

Katsuki Chousa, Tsutomu Hirao

Aligning LLMs with Individual Preferences via Interaction

Shujin Wu, Yi R. Fung, Cheng Qian, Jeonghwan Kim, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

SA-DETR:Span Aware Detection Transformer for Moment Retrieval

Tianheng Xiong, Wei Wei, Kaihe Xu, Dangyang Chen

Leveraging Large Pre-trained Multilingual Models for High-Quality Speech-to-Text Translation on Industry Scenarios

Marko Avila, Josep Crego

Less is More: A Simple yet Effective Token Reduction Method for Efficient Multi-modal LLMs

Dingjie Song, Wenjun Wang, Shunian Chen, Xidong Wang, Michael X. Guan

DEGAP: Dual Event-Guided Adaptive Prefixes for Templated-Based Event Argument Extraction with Slot Querying

Guanghui Wang, Dexi Liu, Jian-Yun Nie, Qizhi Wan, Rong Hu

Propulsion: Steering LLM with Tiny Fine-Tuning

Md Kowsher, Nusrat Jahan Prottasha, Prakash Bhat

Towards Consistent Natural-Language Explanations via Explanation-Consistency Finetuning

Yanda Chen, Chandan Singh, Xiaodong Liu, Simiao Zuo, Bin Yu

DORA: Dynamic Optimization Prompt for Continuous Reflection of LLM-based Agent

Kun Li, Tingzhang Zhao, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu

Making Large Language Models into World Models with Precondition and Effect Knowledge

Kaige Xie, Ian Yang, John Gunerli, Mark Riedl

Prompting Large Language Models to Tackle the Full Software Development Lifecycle: A Case Study

Bowen Li, Wenhan Wu, Ziwei Tang, Lin Shi, John Yang

Charting the Future: Using Chart Question-Answering for Scalable Evaluation of LLM-Driven Data Visualizations

James Ford, Xingmeng Zhao, Dan Schumacher, Anthony Rios

Large Language Model-Based Event Relation Extraction with Rationales

Zhilei Hu, Zixuan Li, Xiaolong Jin, Long Bai, Jiafeng Guo

Boosting the Capabilities of Compact Models in Low-Data Contexts with Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Bhargav Shandilya, Alexis Palmer

Piecing It All Together: Verifying Multi-Hop Multimodal Claims

Haoran Wang, Aman Rangapur, Xiongxiao Xu, Yueqing Liang, Haroon Gharwi

Revisiting Cosine Similarity via Normalized ICA-transformed Embeddings

Hiroaki Yamagiwa, Momose Oyama, Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Cognate Detection for Historical Language Reconstruction of Proto-Sabean Languages: the Case of Ge’ez, Tigrinya, and Amharic

Elleni Sisay Temesgen, Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Fitsum Assamnew Andargie

Enhancing Event Causality Identification with LLM Knowledge and Concept-Level Event Relations

Ya Su, Hu Zhang, Guangjun Zhang, Yujie Wang, Yue Fan

RoleBreak: Character Hallucination as a Jailbreak Attack in Role-Playing Systems

Yihong Tang, Bo Wang, Xu Wang, Dongming Zhao, Jing Liu

Courtroom-LLM: A Legal-Inspired Multi-LLM Framework for Resolving Ambiguous Text Classifications

Sangkeun Jung, Jeesu Jung

CoMIF: Modeling of Complex Multiple Interaction Factors for Conversation Generation

Yuxuan Chen, Wei Wei, Shixuan Fan, Kaihe Xu, Dangyang Chen

Re-Cent: A Relation-Centric Framework for Joint Zero-Shot Relation Triplet Extraction

Zehan Li, Fu Zhang, Kailun Lyu, Jingwei Cheng, Tianyue Peng

An Efficient Dialogue Policy Agent with Model-Based Causal Reinforcement Learning

Kai Xu, Zhenyu Wang, Yangyang Zhao, Bopeng Fang

Evolver: Chain-of-Evolution Prompting to Boost Large Multimodal Models for Hateful Meme Detection

Jinfa Huang, Jinsheng Pan, Zhongwei Wan, Hanjia Lyu, Jiebo Luo

VaeDiff-DocRE: End-to-end Data Augmentation Framework for Document-level Relation Extraction

Khai Phan Tran, Wen Hua, Xue Li

In-context Continual Learning Assisted by an External Continual Learner

Saleh Momeni, Sahisnu Mazumder, Zixuan Ke, Bing Liu

A Text Embedding Model with Contrastive Example Mining for Point-of-Interest Geocoding

Hibiki Nakatani, Hiroki Teranishi, Shohei Higashiyama, Yuya Sawada, Hiroki Ouchi

Unveiling Performance Challenges of Large Language Models in Low-Resource Healthcare: A Demographic Fairness Perspective

Yue Zhou, Barbara Di Eugenio, Lu Cheng

Cross-lingual Social Misinformation Detector based on Hierarchical Mixture-of-Experts Adapter

Haofang Fan, Xiran Hu, Geng Zhao

VideoQA-TA: Temporal-Aware Multi-Modal Video Question Answering

Zhixuan Wu, Bo Cheng, Jiale Han, Jiabao Ma, Shuhao Zhang

Fine-Grained Features-based Code Search for Precise Query-Code Matching

Xinting Zhang, Mengqiu Cheng, Mengzhen Wang, Songwen Gong, Jiayuan Xie

Dialectal and Low Resource Machine Translation for Aromanian

Alexandru-Iulius Jerpelea, Alina Radoi, Sergiu Nisioi

Language Adaptation of Large Language Models: An Empirical Study on LLaMA2

Shumin Wang, Yuexiang Xie, Bolin Ding, Jinyang Gao, Yanyong Zhang

EffiQA: Efficient Question-Answering with Strategic Multi-Model Collaboration on Knowledge Graphs

Zixuan Dong, Baoyun Peng, Yufei Wang, Jia Fu, Xiaodong Wang

Enhancing Rumor Detection Methods with Propagation Structure Infused Language Model

Chaoqun Cui, Siyuan Li, Kunkun Ma, Caiyan Jia

Addressing the Training-Inference Discrepancy in Discrete Diffusion for Text Generation

Masaki Asada, Makoto Miwa

Towards Real-World Rumor Detection: Anomaly Detection Framework with Graph Supervised Contrastive Learning

Chaoqun Cui, Caiyan Jia

Explain-Analyze-Generate: A Sequential Multi-Agent Collaboration Method for Complex Reasoning

WenYuan Gu, Jiale Han, Haowen Wang, Xiang Li, Bo Cheng

Exploring Language Model Generalization in Low-Resource Extractive QA

Saptarshi Sengupta, Wenpeng Yin, Preslav Nakov, Shreya Ghosh, Suhang Wang

Improving Relation Extraction by Sequence-to-sequence-based Dependency Parsing Pre-training

Masaki Asada, Makoto Miwa

From Priest to Doctor: Domain Adaptation for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Ali Marashian, Enora Rice, Luke Gessler, Alexis Palmer, Katharina von der Wense

Can We Afford The Perfect Prompt? Balancing Cost and Accuracy with the Economical Prompting Index

Tyler McDonald, Anthony Colosimo, Yifeng Li, Ali Emami

Beyond Discrete Personas: Personality Modeling Through Journal Intensive Conversations

Sayantan Pal, Souvik Das, Rohini K. Srihari

TOP-Training: Target-Oriented Pretraining for Medical Extractive Question Answering

Saptarshi Sengupta, Connor Heaton, Shreya Ghosh, Wenpeng Yin, Preslav Nakov

NüshuRescue: Reviving the Endangered Nüshu Language with AI

Ivory Yang, Weicheng Ma, Soroush Vosoughi

Close or Cloze? Assessing the Robustness of Large Language Models to Adversarial Perturbations via Word Recovery

Luke Moffett, Bhuwan Dhingra

Evaluating LLMs’ Capability to Identify Lexical Semantic Equivalence: Probing with the Word-in-Context Task

Yoshihiko Hayashi

DP-FROST: Differentially Private Fine-tuning of Pre-trained Models with Freezing Model Parameters

Daeyoung Hong, Woohwan Jung, Kyuseok Shim

A Framework for Effective Invocation Methods of Various LLM Services

Can Wang, Dianbo Sui, Bolin Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, Jiabao Kang

URIEL+: Enhancing Linguistic Inclusion and Usability in a Typological and Multilingual Knowledge Base

Aditya Khan, Mason Shipton, David Anugraha, Kaiyao Duan, Phuong H. Hoang

Automated Molecular Concept Generation and Labeling with Large Language Models

Zimin Zhang, Qianli Wu, Botao Xia, Fang Sun, Ziniu Hu

Cross Domain Classification of Education Talk Turns

Achyutarama R. Ganti, Steven R. Wilson, Geoffrey Louie Wing-Yue

MMD-ERE: Multi-Agent Multi-Sided Debate for Event Relation Extraction

Yong Guan, Hao Peng, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li

Linguistic Minimal Pairs Elicit Linguistic Similarity in Large Language Models

Xinyu Zhou, Delong Chen, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Xufeng Duan, Zhenguang Cai

GLoCIM: Global-view Long Chain Interest Modeling for news recommendation

Zhen Yang, Wenhui Wang, Tao Qi, Peng Zhang, Tianyun Zhang

SelfPrompt: Autonomously Evaluating LLM Robustness via Domain-Constrained Knowledge Guidelines and Refined Adversarial Prompts

Aihua Pei, Zehua Yang, Shunan Zhu, Ruoxi Cheng, Ju Jia

Improving Accessibility of SCOTUS Opinions: A Benchmark Study and a New Dataset for Generic Heading Prediction and Specific Heading Generation

Malek Yaich, Nicolas Hernandez

Speech Foundation Models and Crowdsourcing for Efficient, High-Quality Data Collection

Beomseok Lee, Marco Gaido, Ioan Calapodescu, Laurent Besacier, Matteo Negri

RRHF-V: Ranking Responses to Mitigate Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models with Human Feedback

Guoqing Chen, Fu Zhang, Jinghao Lin, Chenglong Lu, Jingwei Cheng

The Invalsi Benchmarks: measuring the Linguistic and Mathematical understanding of Large Language Models in Italian

Giovanni Puccetti, Maria Cassese, Andrea Esuli

Analysing Zero-Shot Readability-Controlled Sentence Simplification

Abdullah Barayan, Jose Camacho-Collados, Fernando Alva-Manchego

LaERC-S: Improving LLM-based Emotion Recognition in Conversation with Speaker Characteristics

Yumeng Fu, Junjie Wu, Zhongjie Wang, Meishan Zhang, Lili Shan

From Prejudice to Parity: A New Approach to Debiasing Large Language Model Word Embeddings

Aishik Rakshit, Smriti Singh, Shuvam Keshari, Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury, Vinija Jain

Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Study of Best Practices

Siran Li, Linus Stenzel, Carsten Eickhoff, Seyed Ali Bahrainian

Automatic Extraction of Metaphoric Analogies from Literary Texts: Task Formulation, Dataset Construction, and Evaluation

Joanne Boisson, Zara Siddique, Hsuvas Borkakoty, Dimosthenis Antypas, Luis Espinosa Anke

LLM4RE: A Data-centric Feasibility Study for Relation Extraction

Anushka Swarup, Tianyu Pan, Ronald Wilson, Avanti Bhandarkar, Damon Woodard

HateBRXplain: A Benchmark Dataset with Human-Annotated Rationales for Explainable Hate Speech Detection in Brazilian Portuguese

Isadora Salles, Francielle Vargas, Fabrício Benevenuto

On the Effects of Fine-tuning Language Models for Text-Based Reinforcement Learning

Maurício Gruppi, Soham Dan, Keerthiram Murugesan, Subhajit Chaudhury

RUAccent: Advanced System for Stress Placement in Russian with Homograph Resolution

Denis Andreevich Petrov

Beyond Surprisal: A Dual Metric Framework for Lexical Skill Acquisition in LLMs

Nazanin Shafiabadi, Guillaume Wisniewski

Argument Mining with Fine-Tuned Large Language Models

Jérémie Cabessa, Hugo Hernault, Umer Mushtaq

Why do language models perform worse for morphologically complex languages?

Catherine Arnett, Benjamin Bergen

Iterative Structured Knowledge Distillation: Optimizing Language Models Through Layer-by-Layer Distillation

Malthe Have Musaeus, Rob van der Goot

Entropy Guided Extrapolative Decoding to Improve Factuality in Large Language Models

Souvik Das, Lifeng Jin, Linfeng Song, Haitao Mi, Baolin Peng

Generics are puzzling. Can language models find the missing piece?

Gustavo Cilleruelo, Emily Allaway, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch

Small Language Models can Outperform Humans in Short Creative Writing: A Study Comparing SLMs with Humans and LLMs

Guillermo Marco, Luz Rello, Julio Gonzalo

Explanation Regularisation through the Lens of Attributions

Pedro Ferreira, Ivan Titov, Wilker Aziz

data2lang2vec: Data Driven Typological Features Completion

Hamidreza Amirzadeh, Sadegh Jafari, Anika Harju, Rob van der Goot

IRUEX: A Study on Large Language Models Problem-Solving Skills in Iran’s University Entrance Exam

Hamed Khademi Khaledi, Heshaam Faili

Acquired TASTE: Multimodal Stance Detection with Textual and Structural Embeddings

Guy Barel, Oren Tsur, Dan Vilenchik

Tougher Text, Smarter Models: Raising the Bar for Adversarial Defence Benchmarks

Yang Wang, Chenghua Lin

Part-Of-Speech Sensitivity of Routers in Mixture of Experts Models

Elie Antoine, Frédéric Béchet, Phillippe Langlais

SynDARin: Synthesising Datasets for Automated Reasoning in Low-Resource Languages

Gayane Ghazaryan, Erik Arakelyan, Isabelle Augenstein, Pasquale Minervini

Cross-Lingual Sentence Compression for Length-Constrained Subtitles in Low-Resource Settings

Tollef Emil Jørgensen, Ole Jakob Mengshoel

LOLA – An Open-Source Massively Multilingual Large Language Model

Nikit Srivastava, Denis Kuchelev, Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Kshitij Shetty, Michael Roeder

Evaluating Pixel Language Models on Non-Standardized Languages

Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz, Verena Blaschke, Barbara Plank