CoNLL 2025

40 papers

Do large language models solve verbal analogies like children do?

Tamar Johnson, Mathilde ter Veen, Rochelle Choenni, Han van der Maas, Ekaterina Shutova

Vorm: Translations and a constrained hypothesis space support unsupervised morphological segmentation across languages

Barend Beekhuizen

Human-likeness of LLMs in the Mental Lexicon

Bei Xiao, Xufeng Duan, David A. Haslett, Zhenguang Cai

Spatial relation marking across languages: extraction, evaluation, analysis

Barend Beekhuizen

Beyond Accuracy: Revisiting Out-of-Distribution Generalization in NLI Models

Zahra Delbari, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

GCG-Based Artificial Languages for Evaluating Inductive Biases of Neural Language Models

Nadine El-Naggar, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ted Briscoe

BabyLM’s First Words: Word Segmentation as a Phonological Probing Task

Zébulon Goriely, Paula Buttery

IPA CHILDES & G2P+: Feature-Rich Resources for Cross-Lingual Phonology and Phonemic Language Modeling

Zébulon Goriely, Paula Buttery

DLU: Dictionary Look-Up Data and Prediction

David Strohmaier, Gladys Tyen, Hongyi Gu, Diane Nicholls, Zheng Yuan

Compositionality and Event Retrieval in Complement Coercion: A Study of Language Models in a Low-resource Setting

Matteo Radaelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci, Giosuè Baggio

Lost in Variation? Evaluating NLI Performance in Basque and Spanish Geographical Variants

Jaione Bengoetxea, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, Rodrigo Agerri

Is Incremental Structure Prediction Process Universal across Languages?: Revisiting Parsing Strategy through Speculation

Taiga Ishii, Yusuke Miyao

A Continuous Approach to Metaphorically Motivated Regular Polysemy in Language Models

Anna Temerko, Marcos Garcia, Pablo Gamallo

Investigating Psychometric Predictive Power of Syntactic Attention

Ryo Yoshida, Yushi Sugimoto, Yohei Oseki

Timestep Embeddings Trigger Collapse in Diffusion Text Generation

Ryota Nosaka, Takuya Matsuzaki

Evidence of Generative Syntax in LLMs

Mary Kennedy

Construction Identification and Disambiguation Using BERT: A Case Study of NPN

Wesley Scivetti, Nathan Schneider

Bridging the Socioeconomic Gap in Education: A Hybrid AI and Human Annotation Approach

Nahed Abdelgaber, Labiba Jahan, Arham Vinit Doshi, Rishi Suri, Hamza Reza Pavel

A Three-Tier LLM Framework for Forecasting Student Engagement from Qualitative Longitudinal Data

Ahatsham Hayat, Helen Martinez, Bilal Khan, Mohammad Rashedul Hasan

Dynamic Epistemic Friction in Dialogue

Timothy Obiso, Kenneth Lai, Abhijnan Nath, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky

Polarity inversion operators in PLM

David Kletz, Pascal Amsili, Marie Candito

What does memory retrieval leave on the table? Modelling the Cost of Semi-Compositionality with MINERVA2 and sBERT

Sydelle de Souza, Ivan Vegner, Francis Mollica, Leonidas A. A. Doumas

Accelerating Large Language Model Pretraining via LFR Pedagogy: Learn, Focus, and Review

Neha Prakriya, Jui-Nan Yen, Cho-jui Hsieh, Jason Cong

Principal Parts Detection for Computational Morphology: Task, Models and Benchmark

Dorin Keshales, Omer Goldman, Reut Tsarfaty

An Appraisal Theoretic Approach to Modelling Affect Flow in Conversation Corpora

Alok Debnath, Yvette Graham, Owen Conlan

Components of Creativity: Language Model-based Predictors for Clustering and Switching in Verbal Fluency

Sina Zarrieß, Simeon Junker, Judith Sieker, Özge Alaçam

From Stories to Statistics: Methodological Biases in LLM-Based Narrative Flow Quantification

Amal Sunny, Advay Gupta, Yashashree Chandak, Vishnu Sreekumar

Adapting Large Language Models for Movie Domain with Narrative Understanding Tasks

Siqi Shen, Amanmeet Garg

Do Construction Distributions Shape Formal Language Learning In German BabyLMs?

Bastian Bunzeck, Daniel Duran, Sina Zarrieß

What is an “Abstract Reasoner”? Revisiting Experiments and Arguments about Large Language Models

Tian Yun, Chen Sun, Ellie Pavlick

Experiential Semantic Information and Brain Alignment: Are Multimodal Models Better than Language Models?

Anna Bavaresco, Raquel Fernández

A Linguistically Motivated Analysis of Intonational Phrasing in Text-to-Speech Systems: Revealing Gaps in Syntactic Sensitivity

Charlotte Pouw, Afra Alishahi, Willem Zuidema

Short-circuiting Shortcuts: Mechanistic Investigation of Shortcuts in Text Classification

Leon Eshuijs, Shihan Wang, Antske Fokkens

Derivational Probing: Unveiling the Layer-wise Derivation of Syntactic Structures in Neural Language Models

Taiga Someya, Ryo Yoshida, Hitomi Yanaka, Yohei Oseki

Planning for Success: Exploring LLM Long-term Planning Capabilities in Table Understanding

Thi-Nhung Nguyen, Hoang Ngo, Dinh Phung, Thuy-Trang Vu, Dat Quoc Nguyen

WinoWhat: A Parallel Corpus of Paraphrased WinoGrande Sentences with Common Sense Categorization

Ine Gevers, Victor De Marez, Luna De Bruyne, Walter Daelemans

Interpersonal Memory Matters: A New Task for Proactive Dialogue Utilizing Conversational History

Bowen Wu, Wenqing Wang, Haoran Li, Yunhan Deng, Ying Li

LawToken: a single token worth more than its constituents

Yu-Hsiang Tseng, Hsin-Yu Chou, Shu-Kai Hsieh

Quasi-symbolic Semantic Geometry over Transformer-based Variational AutoEncoder

Yingji Zhang, Danilo Carvalho, Andre Freitas

HKCanto-Eval: A Benchmark for Evaluating Cantonese Language Understanding and Cultural Comprehension in LLMs

Tsz Chung Cheng, Chung Shing Cheng, Chaak-ming Lau, Eugene Lam, Wong Chun Yat