EMNLP 2025

4,182 papers

Statistical and Neural Methods for Hawaiian Orthography Modernization

Jaden Kapali, Keaton Williamson, Winston Wu

A Simple Yet Effective Method for Non-Refusing Context Relevant Fine-grained Safety Steering in LLMs

Shaona Ghosh, Amrita Bhattacharjee, Yftah Ziser, Christopher Parisien

BRSpeech-DF: A Deep Fake Synthetic Speech Dataset for Portuguese Zero-Shot TTS

Alexandre Costa Ferro Filho, Rafaello Virgilli, Lucas Alcantara Souza, F S de Oliveira, Marcelo Henrique Lopes Ferreira

Trojsten Benchmark: Evaluating LLM Problem-Solving in Slovak STEM Competition Problems

Adam Zahradník, Marek Suppa

Retrieving Support to Rank Answers in Open-Domain Question Answering

Zeyu Zhang, Alessandro Moschitti, Thuy Vu

TLUE: A Tibetan Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark

Fan Gao, Cheng Huang, Yutong Liu, Nyima Tashi, Xiangxiang Wang

Spectral Scaling Laws in Language Models: emphHow Effectively Do Feed-Forward Networks Use Their Latent Space?

Nandan Kumar Jha, Brandon Reagen

Train It and Forget It: Merge Lists are Unnecessary for BPE Inference in Language Models

Tomohiro Sawada, Kartik Goyal

Translating Domain-Specific Terminology in Typologically-Diverse Languages: A Study in Tax and Financial Education

Arturo Oncevay, Elena Kochkina, Keshav Ramani, Toyin Aguda, Simerjot Kaur

Multilinguality Does not Make Sense: Investigating Factors Behind Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer in Sense-Aware Tasks

Roksana Goworek, Haim Dubossarsky

FoREST: Frame of Reference Evaluation in Spatial Reasoning Tasks

Tanawan Premsri, Parisa Kordjamshidi

Breaking Agents: Compromising Autonomous LLM Agents Through Malfunction Amplification

Boyang Zhang, Yicong Tan, Yun Shen, Ahmed Salem, Michael Backes

Doc2Chart: Intent-Driven Zero-Shot Chart Generation from Documents

Akriti Jain, Pritika Ramu, Aparna Garimella, Apoorv Saxena

NormXLogit: The Head-on-Top Never Lies

Sina Abbasi, Mohammad Reza Modarres, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

The Sound of Syntax: Finetuning and Comprehensive Evaluation of Language Models for Speech Pathology

Fagun Patel, Duc Quang Nguyen, Sang T. Truong, Jody Vaynshtok, Sanmi Koyejo

DrFrattn: Directly Learn Adaptive Policy from Attention for Simultaneous Machine Translation

Libo Zhao, Jing Li, Ziqian Zeng

Leveraging Multilingual Training for Authorship Representation: Enhancing Generalization across Languages and Domains

Junghwan Kim, Haotian Zhang, David Jurgens

Detecting Corpus-Level Knowledge Inconsistencies in Wikipedia with Large Language Models

Sina Semnani, Jirayu Burapacheep, Arpandeep Khatua, Thanawan Atchariyachanvanit, Zheng Wang

Towards Author-informed NLP: Mind the Social Bias

Inbar Pendzel, Einat Minkov

CHURRO: Making History Readable with an Open-Weight Large Vision-Language Model for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost Historical Text Recognition

Sina Semnani, Han Zhang, Xinyan He, Merve Tekgurler, Monica Lam

Turning Logic Against Itself: Probing Model Defenses Through Contrastive Questions

Rachneet Singh Sachdeva, Rima Hazra, Iryna Gurevych

The Illusion of Progress: Re-evaluating Hallucination Detection in LLMs

Denis Janiak, Jakub Binkowski, Albert Sawczyn, Bogdan Gabrys, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv

EduVidQA: Generating and Evaluating Long-form Answers to Student Questions based on Lecture Videos

Sourjyadip Ray, shubham sharma, Somak Aditya, Pawan Goyal

iKnow-audio: Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Audio-Language Models

Michel Olvera, Changhong Wang, Paraskevas Stamatiadis, Gaël RICHARD, Slim Essid

ReDepress: A Cognitive Framework for Detecting Depression Relapse from Social Media

Aakash Kumar Agarwal, Saprativa Bhattacharjee, Mauli Rastogi, Jemima S. Jacob, Biplab Banerjee

Moral Framing in Politics (MFiP): A new resource and models for moral framing

Ines Rehbein, Ines Reinig, Simone Paolo Ponzetto

TounsiBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Tunisian Arabic

Souha Ben Hassine, Asma Arrak, Marouene Addhoum, Steven R Wilson

AI Argues Differently: Distinct Argumentative and Linguistic Patterns of LLMs in Persuasive Contexts

Esra Dönmez, Maximilian Maurer, Gabriella Lapesa, Agnieszka Faleńska

Reward-Weighted Sampling: Enhancing Non-Autoregressive Characteristics in Masked Diffusion LLMs

DAEHOON GWAK, Minseo Jung, Junwoo Park, Minho Park, ChaeHun Park

Efficient Real-time Refinement of Language Model Text Generation

Joonho Ko, Jinheon Baek, Sung Ju Hwang

Exploring Large Language Models for Detecting Mental Disorders

Gleb Kuzmin, Petr Strepetov, Maksim Stankevich, Natalia Chudova, Artem Shelmanov

Long Chain-of-Thought Fine-tuning via Understanding-to-Reasoning Transition

Chenxin An, Zhihui Xie, Xiaonan Li, Ming Zhong, Shansan Gong

Slim-SC: Thought Pruning for Efficient Scaling with Self-Consistency

Colin Hong, Xu Guo, Anand Chaanan Singh, Esha Choukse, Dmitrii Ustiugov

STARQA: A Question Answering Dataset for Complex Analytical Reasoning over Structured Databases

Mounica Maddela, Lingjue Xie, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Mausam

Aligning Text/Speech Representations from Multimodal Models with MEG Brain Activity During Listening

Padakanti Srijith, Khushbu Pahwa, Radhika Mamidi, Bapi Raju Surampudi, Manish Gupta

Personalized Language Models via Privacy-Preserving Evolutionary Model Merging

Kyuyoung Kim, Jinwoo Shin, Jaehyung Kim

RAED: Retrieval-Augmented Entity Description Generation for Emerging Entity Linking and Disambiguation

Karim Ghonim, Pere-Lluís Huguet Cabot, Riccardo Orlando, Roberto Navigli

Concept-pedia: a Wide-coverage Semantically-annotated Multimodal Dataset

Karim Ghonim, Andrei Stefan Bejgu, Alberte Fernández-Castro, Roberto Navigli

Liaozhai through the Looking-Glass: On Paratextual Explicitation of Culture-Bound Terms in Machine Translation

Sherrie Shen, Weixuan Wang, Alexandra Birch

Towards Event Extraction with Massive Types: LLM-based Collaborative Annotation and Partitioning Extraction

Wenxuan Liu, Zixuan Li, Long Bai, Yuxin Zuo, Daozhu Xu

Conflicting Needles in a Haystack: How LLMs behave when faced with contradictory information

Murathan Kurfali, Robert Östling

WojoodRelations: Arabic Relation Extraction Corpus and Modeling

Alaa Aljabari, Mohammed Khalilia, Mustafa Jarrar

From Input Perception to Predictive Insight: Modeling Model Blind Spots Before They Become Errors

Maggie Mi, Aline Villavicencio, Nafise Sadat Moosavi

NitiBench: Benchmarking LLM Frameworks on Thai Legal Question Answering Capabilities

Pawitsapak Akarajaradwong, Pirat Pothavorn, Chompakorn Chaksangchaichot, Panuthep Tasawong, Thitiwat Nopparatbundit

Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Estimation of Source Reliability

Jeongyeon Hwang, Junyoung Park, Hyejin Park, Dongwoo Kim, Sangdon Park

xCoRe: Cross-context Coreference Resolution

Giuliano Martinelli, Bruno Gatti, Roberto Navigli

EduAdapt: A Question Answer Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating Grade-Level Adaptability in LLMs

Numaan Naeem, Abdellah El Mekki, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

CodeSSM: Towards State Space Models for Code Understanding

Shweta Verma, Abhinav Anand, Mira Mezini

LoCt-Instruct: An Automatic Pipeline for Constructing Datasets of Logical Continuous Instructions

Hongyu Sun, Yusuke Sakai, Haruki Sakajo, Shintaro Ozaki, Kazuki Hayashi

PerspectiveMod: A Perspectivist Resource for Deliberative Moderation

Eva Maria Vecchi, Neele Falk, Carlotta Quensel, Iman Jundi, Gabriella Lapesa

Lookahead Q-Cache: Achieving More Consistent KV Cache Eviction via Pseudo Query

Yixuan Wang, Shiyu Ji, Yijun Liu, Yuzhuang Xu, Yang Xu

Multi-LMentry: Can Multilingual LLMs Solve Elementary Tasks Across Languages?

Luca Moroni, Javier Aula-Blasco, Simone Conia, Irene Baucells, Naiara Perez

FillerSpeech: Towards Human-Like Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Filler Insertion and Filler Style Control

Seung-Bin Kim, Jun-Hyeok Cha, Hyung-Seok Oh, Heejin Choi, Seong-Whan Lee

LiteraryQA: Towards Effective Evaluation of Long-document Narrative QA

Tommaso Bonomo, Luca Gioffré, Roberto Navigli

LiTEx: A Linguistic Taxonomy of Explanations for Understanding Within-Label Variation in Natural Language Inference

Pingjun Hong, Beiduo Chen, Siyao Peng, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Barbara Plank

MPCG: Multi-Round Persona-Conditioned Generation for Modeling the Evolution of Misinformation with LLMs

Chong Jun Rong Brian, Yixuan Tang, Anthony Kum Hoe Tung

Personalization up to a Point: Why Personalized Content Moderation Needs Boundaries, and How We Can Enforce Them

Emanuele Moscato, Tiancheng Hu, Matthias Orlikowski, Paul Röttger, Debora Nozza

Toward Machine Translation Literacy: How Lay Users Perceive and Rely on Imperfect Translations

Yimin Xiao, Yongle Zhang, Dayeon Ki, Calvin Bao, Marianna J. Martindale

The Missing Parts: Augmenting Fact Verification with Half Truth Detection

Yixuan Tang, Jincheng Wang, Anthony Kum Hoe Tung

Personalized LLM Decoding via Contrasting Personal Preference

Hyungjune Bu, ChanJoo Jung, Minjae Kang, Jaehyung Kim

Uncovering the Bigger Picture: Comprehensive Event Understanding Via Diverse News Retrieval

Yixuan Tang, Yuanyuan Shi, Yiqun Sun, Anthony Kum Hoe Tung

Diverse, not Short: A Length-Controlled Data Selection Strategy for Improving Response Diversity of Language Models

Vijeta Deshpande, Debasmita Ghose, John D Patterson, Roger E. Beaty, Anna Rumshisky

Do Large Language Models Understand Word Senses?

Domenico Meconi, Simone Stirpe, Federico Martelli, Leonardo Lavalle, Roberto Navigli

MicroEdit: Neuron-level Knowledge Disentanglement and Localization in Lifelong Model Editing

Shiqi Wang, Qi Wang, Runliang Niu, He Kong, Yi Chang

EquiBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models’ Reasoning about Program Semantics via Equivalence Checking

Anjiang Wei, Jiannan Cao, Ran Li, Hongyu Chen, Yuhui Zhang

Data Descriptions from Large Language Models with Influence Estimation

Chaeri Kim, Jaeyeon Bae, Taehwan Kim

SATBench: Benchmarking LLMs’ Logical Reasoning via Automated Puzzle Generation from SAT Formulas

Anjiang Wei, Yuheng Wu, Yingjia Wan, Tarun Suresh, Huanmi Tan

NormGenesis: Multicultural Dialogue Generation via Exemplar-Guided Social Norm Modeling and Violation Recovery

Minki Hong, Jangho Choi, Jihie Kim

seqBench: A Tunable Benchmark to Quantify Sequential Reasoning Limits of LLMs

Mohammad Ramezanali, Mo Vazifeh, Paolo Santi

Image Difference Captioning via Adversarial Preference Optimization

Zihan Huang, Junda Wu, Rohan Surana, Tong Yu, David Arbour

Mechanisms vs. Outcomes: Probing for Syntax Fails to Explain Performance on Targeted Syntactic Evaluations

Ananth Agarwal, Jasper Jian, Christopher D Manning, Shikhar Murty

PRIME: Large Language Model Personalization with Cognitive Dual-Memory and Personalized Thought Process

Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Nicholas Beauchamp, Lu Wang

Case-Based Decision-Theoretic Decoding with Quality Memories

Hiroyuki Deguchi, Masaaki Nagata

Mondrian: A Framework for Logical Abstract (Re)Structuring

Elizabeth Grace Orwig, Shinwoo Park, Hyundong Jin, Yo-Sub Han

OpenNER 1.0: Standardized Open-Access Named Entity Recognition Datasets in 50+ Languages

Chester Palen-Michel, Maxwell Pickering, Maya Kruse, Jonne Sälevä, Constantine Lignos

SYNC: A Synthetic Long-Context Understanding Benchmark for Controlled Comparisons of Model Capabilities

Shuyang Cao, Kaijian Zou, Lu Wang

DIWALI - Diversity and Inclusivity aWare cuLture specific Items for India: Dataset and Assessment of LLMs for Cultural Text Adaptation in Indian Context

Pramit Sahoo, Maharaj Brahma, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar

Word Salad Chopper: Reasoning Models Waste A Ton Of Decoding Budget On Useless Repetitions, Self-Knowingly

Wenya Xie, Shaochen Zhong, Hoang Anh Duy Le, Zhaozhuo Xu, Jianwen Xie

Can Large Language Models Unlock Novel Scientific Research Ideas?

Sandeep Kumar, Tirthankar Ghosal, Vinayak Goyal, Asif Ekbal

Benchmarking and Mitigating MCQA Selection Bias of Large Vision-Language Models

Md. Atabuzzaman, Ali Asgarov, Chris Thomas

NESTFUL: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Nested Sequences of API Calls

Kinjal Basu, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Kiran Kate, Mayank Agarwal, Maxwell Crouse

Idiosyncratic Versus Normative Modeling of Atypical Speech Recognition: Dysarthric Case Studies

Vishnu Raja, Adithya V Ganesan, Anand Syamkumar, Ritwik Banerjee, H. Schwartz

Castle: Causal Cascade Updates in Relational Databases with Large Language Models

Yongye Su, Yucheng Zhang, Zeru Shi, Bruno Ribeiro, Elisa Bertino

A Knowledge-driven Adaptive Collaboration of LLMs for Enhancing Medical Decision-making

Xiao Wu, Ting-Zhu Huang, Liang-Jian Deng, Yanyuan Qiao, Imran Razzak

CompassVerifier: A Unified and Robust Verifier for LLMs Evaluation and Outcome Reward

Shudong Liu, Hongwei Liu, Junnan Liu, Linchen Xiao, Songyang Gao

ReflAct: World-Grounded Decision Making in LLM Agents via Goal-State Reflection

Jeonghye Kim, Sojeong Rhee, Minbeom Kim, Dohyung Kim, Sangmook Lee

KRETA: A Benchmark for Korean Reading and Reasoning in Text-Rich VQA Attuned to Diverse Visual Contexts

Taebaek Hwang, Minseo Kim, Gisang Lee, Seonuk Kim, Hyunjun Eun

Spatial Layouts in News Homepages Capture Human Preferences

Alexander Spangher, Michael Vu, Arda Kaz, Naitian Zhou, Ben Welsh

Probability Distribution Collapse: A Critical Bottleneck to Compact Unsupervised Neural Grammar Induction

Jinwook Park, kangil kim

N-CORE: N-View Consistency Regularization for Disentangled Representation Learning in Nonverbal Vocalizations

Siddhant Bikram Shah, Kristina T. Johnson

Benchmarking LLMs on Semantic Overlap Summarization

John Salvador, Naman Bansal, Mousumi Akter, Souvika Sarkar, Anupam Das

Graph-Based Multi-Trait Essay Scoring

Shengjie Li, Vincent Ng

Taking Notes Brings Focus? Towards Multi-Turn Multimodal Dialogue Learning

Jiazheng Liu, Sipeng Zheng, Börje F. Karlsson, Zongqing Lu

Revealing and Mitigating the Challenge of Detecting Character Knowledge Errors in LLM Role-Playing

Wenyuan Zhang, Shuaiyi Nie, Jiawei Sheng, Zefeng Zhang, Xinghua Zhang

GUI-Bee: Align GUI Action Grounding to Novel Environments via Autonomous Exploration

Yue Fan, Handong Zhao, Ruiyi Zhang, Yu Shen, Xin Eric Wang

MoVa: Towards Generalizable Classification of Human Morals and Values

Ziyu Chen, Junfei Sun, Chenxi Li, Tuan Dung Nguyen, Jing Yao

No Need for Explanations: LLMs can implicitly learn from mistakes in-context

Lisa Alazraki, Maximilian Mozes, Jon Ander Campos, Tan Yi-Chern, Marek Rei

ImpliRet: Benchmarking the Implicit Fact Retrieval Challenge

Zeinab Sadat Taghavi, Ali Modarressi, Yunpu Ma, Hinrich Schuetze

Breaking the Noise Barrier: LLM-Guided Semantic Filtering and Enhancement for Multi-Modal Entity Alignment

Chenglong Lu, Chenxiao Li, Jingwei Cheng, Yongquan Ji, Guoqing Chen

MemInsight: Autonomous Memory Augmentation for LLM Agents

Rana Salama, Jason Cai, Michelle Yuan, Anna Currey, Monica Sunkara