EMNLP 2025

4,182 papers

LiTransProQA: An LLM-based Literary Translation Evaluation Metric with Professional Question Answering

Ran Zhang, Wei Zhao, Lieve Macken, Steffen Eger

How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate across Languages? On Realistic Multilingual Estimation of LLM Hallucination

Saad Obaid Ul Islam, Anne Lauscher, Goran Glavaš

Multilingual vs Crosslingual Retrieval of Fact-Checked Claims: A Tale of Two Approaches

Alan Ramponi, Marco Rovera, Robert Moro, Sara Tonelli

Do LLMs Behave as Claimed? Investigating How LLMs Follow Their Own Claims using Counterfactual Questions

Haochen Shi, Shaobo Li, Guoqing Chao, Xiaoliang Shi, Wentao Chen

M2Edit: Locate and Edit Multi-Granularity Knowledge in Multimodal Large Language Model

Yang Zhou, Pengfei Cao, Yubo Chen, Qingbin Liu, Dianbo Sui

Evolving Chinese Spelling Correction with Corrector-Verifier Collaboration

Linfeng Liu, Hongqiu Wu, Hai Zhao

The Good, the Bad and the Constructive: Automatically Measuring Peer Review’s Utility for Authors

Abdelrahman Sadallah, Tim Baumgärtner, Iryna Gurevych, Ted Briscoe

CLMTracing: Black-box User-level Watermarking for Code Language Model Tracing

Boyu Zhang, Ping He, Tianyu Du, Xuhong Zhang, Lei Yun

Toward Efficient Sparse Autoencoder-Guided Steering for Improved In-Context Learning in Large Language Models

Ikhyun Cho, Julia Hockenmaier

Real-time Ad Retrieval via LLM-generative Commercial Intention for Sponsored Search Advertising

Tongtong Liu, Zhaohui Wang, Meiyue Qin, Zenghui Lu, Xudong Chen

From Charts to Fair Narratives: Uncovering and Mitigating Geo-Economic Biases in Chart-to-Text

Ridwan Mahbub, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mizanur Rahman

Agent-to-Agent Theory of Mind: Testing Interlocutor Awareness among Large Language Models

Younwoo Choi, Changling Li, YongJin Yang, Zhijing Jin

Can Large Language Models Act as Ensembler for Multi-GNNs?

Hanqi Duan, Yao Cheng, Jianxiang Yu, Yao Liu, Xiang Li

AmpleHate: Amplifying the Attention for Versatile Implicit Hate Detection

Yejin Lee, Joonghyuk Hahn, Hyeseon Ahn, Yo-Sub Han

How to Protect Yourself from 5G Radiation? Investigating LLM Responses to Implicit Misinformation

Ruohao Guo, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

Transformer-Based Temporal Information Extraction and Application: A Review

Xin Su, Phillip Howard, Steven Bethard

XLQA: A Benchmark for Locale-Aware Multilingual Open-Domain Question Answering

Keonwoo Roh, Yeong-Joon Ju, Seong-Whan Lee

Causal Representation Learning from Multimodal Clinical Records under Non-Random Modality Missingness

Zihan Liang, Ziwen Pan, Ruoxuan Xiong

A Multi-Level Benchmark for Causal Language Understanding in Social Media Discourse

Xiaohan Ding, Kaike Ping, Buse Çarık, Eugenia Rho

Compound AI Systems Optimization: A Survey of Methods, Challenges, and Future Directions

Yu-Ang Lee, Guan-Ting Yi, Mei-Yi Liu, Jui-Chao Lu, Guan-Bo Yang

Explaining Differences Between Model Pairs in Natural Language through Sample Learning

Advaith Malladi, Rakesh R Menon, Yuvraj Jain, Shashank Srivastava

VoiceBBQ: Investigating Effect of Content and Acoustics in Social Bias of Spoken Language Model

Junhyuk Choi, Ro-hoon Oh, Jihwan Seol, Bugeun Kim

Disentangling Subjectivity and Uncertainty for Hate Speech Annotation and Modeling using Gaze

Özge Alaçam, Sanne Hoeken, Andreas Säuberli, Hannes Gröner, Diego Frassinelli

Multi-view-guided Passage Reranking with Large Language Models

Jeongwoo Na, Jun Kwon, Eunseong Choi, Jongwuk Lee

Detecting Knowledge Boundary of Vision Large Language Models by Sampling-Based Inference

Zhuo Chen, Xinyu Wang, Yong Jiang, Zhen Zhang, Xinyu Geng

Large Language Models Threaten Language’s Epistemic and Communicative Foundations

Shashank Srivastava

Refining Text Generation for Realistic Conversational Recommendation via Direct Preference Optimization

Manato Tajiri, Michimasa Inaba

MAviS: A Multimodal Conversational Assistant For Avian Species

Yevheniia Kryklyvets, Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Jinxing Zhou, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

BrailleLLM: Braille Instruction Tuning with Large Language Models for Braille Domain Tasks

Tianyuan Huang, Zepeng Zhu, Hangdi Xing, Zirui Shao, Zhi Yu

ORPP: Self-Optimizing Role-playing Prompts to Enhance Language Model Capabilities

Yifan Duan, Yihong Tang, Kehai Chen, Liqiang Nie, Min Zhang

Multi-Frequency Contrastive Decoding: Alleviating Hallucinations for Large Vision-Language Models

Bingqian Liu, Fu Zhang, Guoqing Chen, Jingwei Cheng

A Survey of Link Prediction in N-ary Knowledge Graphs

Jiyao Wei, Saiping Guan, Da Li, Zhongni Hou, Miao Su

Probing and Boosting Large Language Models Capabilities via Attention Heads

Dezhi Zhao, Xin Liu, Xiaocheng Feng, Hui Wang, Bing Qin

Probing Narrative Morals: A New Character-Focused MFT Framework for Use with Large Language Models

Luca Mitran, Sophie Wu, Andrew Piper

Do All Autoregressive Transformers Remember Facts the Same Way? A Cross-Architecture Analysis of Recall Mechanisms

Minyeong Choe, Haehyun Cho, Changho Seo, Hyunil Kim

MULTIVOX: A Benchmark for Evaluating Voice Assistants for Multimodal Interactions

Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, Ashish Seth, Nishit Anand, Utkarsh Tyagi, Sonal Kumar

EGOILLUSION: Benchmarking Hallucinations in Egocentric Video Understanding

Ashish Seth, Utkarsh Tyagi, Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, Nishit Anand, Sonal Kumar

QG-CoC: Question-Guided Chain-of-Captions for Large Multimodal Models

Kuei-Chun Kao, Hsu Tzu-Yin, Yunqi Hong, Ruochen Wang, Cho-jui Hsieh

VLP: Vision-Language Preference Learning for Embodied Manipulation

Runze Liu, Chenjia Bai, Jiafei Lyu, Shengjie Sun, Yali Du

SimpleDoc: Multi‐Modal Document Understanding with Dual‐Cue Page Retrieval and Iterative Refinement

Chelsi Jain, Yiran Wu, Yifan Zeng, Jiale Liu, Shengyu Dai

COUNTDOWN: Contextually Sparse Activation Filtering Out Unnecessary Weights in Down Projection

Jaewon Cheon, Pilsung Kang

LLMs are Better Than You Think: Label-Guided In-Context Learning for Named Entity Recognition

Fan Bai, Hamid Hassanzadeh, Ardavan Saeedi, Mark Dredze

Seeing the Same Story Differently: Framing‐Divergent Event Coreference for Computational Framing Analysis

Jin Zhao, Xinrui Hu, Nianwen Xue

Unsupervised Concept Vector Extraction for Bias Control in LLMs

Hannah Cyberey, Yangfeng Ji, David Evans

Investigating the interaction of linguistic and mathematical reasoning in language models using multilingual number puzzles

Antara Raaghavi Bhattacharya, Isabel Papadimitriou, Kathryn Davidson, David Alvarez-Melis

ECO Decoding: Entropy-Based Control for Controllability and Fluency in Controllable Dialogue Generation

Seungmin Shin, Dooyoung Kim, Youngjoong Ko

Weaver: Interweaving SQL and LLM for Table Reasoning

Rohit Khoja, Devanshu Gupta, Yanjie Fu, Dan Roth, Vivek Gupta

Improving the Quality of Web-mined Parallel Corpora of Low-Resource Languages using Debiasing Heuristics

Aloka Fernando, Nisansa de Silva, Menan Velayuthan, Charitha Rathnayake, Surangika Ranathunga

The Strawberry Problem: Emergence of Character-level Understanding in Tokenized Language Models

Adrian Cosma, Stefan Ruseti, Emilian Radoi, Mihai Dascalu

LinguaLens: Towards Interpreting Linguistic Mechanisms of Large Language Models via Sparse Auto-Encoder

Yi Jing, Zijun Yao, Hongzhu Guo, Lingxu Ran, Xiaozhi Wang

Scaling Up Temporal Domain Generalization via Temporal Experts Averaging

Aoming Liu, Kevin Miller, Venkatesh Saligrama, Kate Saenko, Boqing Gong

Leveraging What’s Overfixed: Post-Correction via LLM Grammatical Error Overcorrection

Taehee Park, Heejin Do, Gary Lee

Improving Large Language Model Safety with Contrastive Representation Learning

Samuel Simko, Mrinmaya Sachan, Bernhard Schölkopf, Zhijing Jin

Efficient Compositional Multi-tasking for On-device Large Language Models

Ondrej Bohdal, Mete Ozay, Jijoong Moon, Kyenghun Lee, Hyeonmok Ko

Video-RTS: Rethinking Reinforcement Learning and Test-Time Scaling for Efficient and Enhanced Video Reasoning

Ziyang Wang, Jaehong Yoon, Shoubin Yu, Md Mohaiminul Islam, Gedas Bertasius

IntentionFrame: A Semi-Structured, Multi-Aspect Framework for Fine-Grained Conversational Intention Understanding

Jinggui Liang, Dung Vo, Lizi Liao

Multilingual Language Model Pretraining using Machine-translated Data

Jiayi Wang, Yao Lu, Maurice Weber, Max Ryabinin, David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Emergent morpho-phonological representations in self-supervised speech models

Jon Gauthier, Canaan Breiss, Matthew K Leonard, Edward F. Chang

Adapting Bias Evaluation to Domain Contexts using Generative Models

Tamara Quiroga, Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Valentin Barriere

Aspect-Oriented Summarization for Psychiatric Short-Term Readmission Prediction

Wonjin Yoon, Boyu Ren, Spencer Thomas, Chanhwi Kim, Guergana Savova

Do RAG Systems Really Suffer From Positional Bias?

Florin Cuconasu, Simone Filice, Guy Horowitz, Yoelle Maarek, Fabrizio Silvestri

Pre-trained Models Perform the Best When Token Distributions Follow Zipf’s Law

Yanjin He, Qingkai Zeng, Meng Jiang

RACCooN: Versatile Instructional Video Editing with Auto-Generated Narratives

Jaehong Yoon, Shoubin Yu, Mohit Bansal

Pun Unintended: LLMs and the Illusion of Humor Understanding

Alessandro Zangari, Matteo Marcuzzo, Andrea Albarelli, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Jose Camacho-Collados

Synth-SBDH: A Synthetic Dataset of Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health for Clinical Text

Avijit Mitra, Zhichao Yang, Emily Druhl, Raelene Goodwin, Hong Yu

BYOKG-RAG: Multi-Strategy Graph Retrieval for Knowledge Graph Question Answering

Costas Mavromatis, Soji Adeshina, Vassilis N. Ioannidis, Zhen Han, Qi Zhu

Social Bias in Multilingual Language Models: A Survey

Lance Calvin Lim Gamboa, Yue Feng, Mark G. Lee

GLIMPSE: Do Large Vision-Language Models Truly Think With Videos or Just Glimpse at Them?

Yiyang Zhou, Linjie Li, Shi Qiu, Zhengyuan Yang, Yuyang Zhao

Charting the Landscape of African NLP: Mapping Progress and Shaping the Road Ahead

Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Michael A. Hedderich, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Dietrich Klakow

AFRIDOC-MT: Document-level MT Corpus for African Languages

Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Israel Abebe Azime, Miaoran Zhang, Cristina España-Bonet, Rachel Bawden

MessIRve: A Large-Scale Spanish Information Retrieval Dataset

Francisco Valentini, Viviana Cotik, Damián Furman, Ivan Bercovich, Edgar Altszyler

Morables: A Benchmark for Assessing Abstract Moral Reasoning in LLMs with Fables

Matteo Marcuzzo, Alessandro Zangari, Andrea Albarelli, Jose Camacho-Collados, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Randomly Removing 50% of Dimensions in Text Embeddings has Minimal Impact on Retrieval and Classification Tasks

Sotaro Takeshita, Yurina Takeshita, Daniel Ruffinelli, Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Tailoring Table Retrieval from a Field-aware Hybrid Matching Perspective

Da Li, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo, Xueqi Cheng

Scaling Low-Resource MT via Synthetic Data Generation with LLMs

Ona de Gibert, Joseph Attieh, Teemu Vahtola, Mikko Aulamo, Zihao Li

Linguistic Neuron Overlap Patterns to Facilitate Cross-lingual Transfer on Low-resource Languages

Yuemei Xu, Kexin Xu, Jian Zhou, Ling Hu, Lin Gui

Leveraging Loanword Constraints for Improving Machine Translation in a Low-Resource Multilingual Context

Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Rui Sousa-Silva

Attacking Misinformation Detection Using Adversarial Examples Generated by Language Models

Piotr Przybyła, Euan McGill, Horacio Saggion

Context and POS in Action: A Comparative Study of Chinese Homonym Disambiguation in Human and Language Models

Xie Chenwei, Matthew King-Hang Ma, Wenbo Wang, William Shiyuan Wang

Creativity in LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems: A Survey

Yi-Cheng Lin, Kang-Chieh Chen, Zhe-Yan Li, Tzu-Heng Wu, Tzu-Hsuan Wu

When Life Gives You Samples: The Benefits of Scaling up Inference Compute for Multilingual LLMs

Ammar Khairi, Daniel D’souza, Ye Shen, Julia Kreutzer, Sara Hooker

HealthCards: Exploring Text-to-Image Generation as Visual Aids for Healthcare Knowledge Democratizing and Education

Qian Wu, Zheyao Gao, Longfei Gou, Yifan Hou, Ann Sin Nga Lau

BOUQuET : dataset, Benchmark and Open initiative for Universal Quality Evaluation in Translation

Pierre Andrews, Mikel Artetxe, Mariano Coria Meglioli, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Joe Chuang

Unpacking Let Alone: Human-Scale Models Generalize to a Rare Construction in Form but not Meaning

Wesley Scivetti, Tatsuya Aoyama, Ethan Wilcox, Nathan Schneider

Trustworthy Medical Question Answering: An Evaluation-Centric Survey

Yinuo Wang, Baiyang Wang, Robert Mercer, Frank Rudzicz, Sudipta Singha Roy

PIIvot: A Lightweight NLP Anonymization Framework for Question-Anchored Tutoring Dialogues

Matthew Zent, Digory Smith, Simon Woodhead

Randomized Smoothing Meets Vision-Language Models

Emmanouil Seferis, Changshun Wu, Stefanos Kollias, Saddek Bensalem, Chih-Hong Cheng

Improving Neutral Point-of-View Generation with Data- and Parameter-Efficient RL

Jessica Hoffmann, Christiane Ahlheim, Zac Yu, Aria Walfrand, Jarvis Jin

You Are What You Train: Effects of Data Composition on Training Context-aware Machine Translation Models

Paweł Mąka, Yusuf Can Semerci, Jan Scholtes, Gerasimos Spanakis

TALON: A Multi-Agent Framework for Long-Table Exploration and Question Answering

Ruochun Jin, Xiyue Wang, Dong Wang, Haoqi Zheng, Yunpeng Qi

MrGuard: A Multilingual Reasoning Guardrail for Universal LLM Safety

Yahan Yang, Soham Dan, Shuo Li, Dan Roth, Insup Lee

Frame First, Then Extract: A Frame-Semantic Reasoning Pipeline for Zero-Shot Relation Triplet Extraction

Zehan Li, Fu Zhang, Wenqing Zhang, Jiawei Li, Zhou Li

Assay2Mol: Large Language Model-based Drug Design Using BioAssay Context

Yifan Deng, Spencer S Ericksen, Anthony Gitter

CogDual: Enhancing Dual Cognition of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Implicit Rule-Based Rewards

Cheng Liu, Yifei Lu, Fanghua Ye, Jian Li, Xingyu Chen

Summarizing Speech: A Comprehensive Survey

Fabian Retkowski, Maike Züfle, Andreas Sudmann, Dinah Pfau, Shinji Watanabe

Frequency & Compositionality in Emergent Communication

Jean-Baptiste Sevestre, Emmanuel Dupoux

TrojanStego: Your Language Model Can Secretly Be A Steganographic Privacy Leaking Agent

Dominik Meier, Jan Philip Wahle, Paul Röttger, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp

Beyond Correctness: Confidence-Aware Reward Modeling for Enhancing Large Language Model Reasoning

Qianxi He, Qingyu Ren, Shanzhe Lei, Xuhong Wang, Yingchun Wang

Extracting Linguistic Information from Large Language Models: Syntactic Relations and Derivational Knowledge

Tsedeniya Kinfe Temesgen, Marion Di Marco, Alexander Fraser

Type-Less yet Type-Aware Inductive Link Prediction with Pretrained Language Models

Alessandro De Bellis, Salvatore Bufi, Giovanni Servedio, Vito Walter Anelli, Tommaso Di Noia