IJCNLP 2025

426 papers

What Would You Ask When You First Saw a2+b2=c2? Evaluating LLM on Curiosity-Driven Question Generation

Shashidhar Reddy Javaji, Zining Zhu

Beyond statistical significance: Quantifying uncertainty and statistical variability in multilingual and multitask NLP evaluation

Jonne Sälevä, Duygu Ataman, Constantine Lignos

Large Language Models Encode Semantics and Alignment in Linearly Separable Representations

Baturay Saglam, Paul Kassianik, Blaine Nelson, Sajana Weerawardhena, Yaron Singer

Interpreting the Effects of Quantization on LLMs

Manpreet Singh, Hassan Sajjad

VideoChain: A Transformer-Based Framework for Multi-hop Video Question Generation

Arpan Phukan, Anupam Pandey, Deepjyoti Bodo, Asif Ekbal

Q2E: Query-to-Event Decomposition for Zero-Shot Multilingual Text-to-Video Retrieval

Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Francis Ferraro

PerCoR: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning in Persian via Multiple-Choice Sentence Completion

Morteza Alikhani, Mohammadtaha Bagherifard, Erfan Zinvandi, Mehran Sarmadi

CtrlShift: Steering Language Models for Dense Quotation Retrieval with Dynamic Prompts

Chuang Liang, Wei Li, Yanqiu Shao

What Are They Talking About? A Benchmark of Knowledge-Grounded Discussion Summarization

Weixiao Zhou, Junnan Zhu, Gengyao Li, Xianfu Cheng, Xinnian Liang

Large Temporal Models: Unlocking Temporal Understanding in LLMs for Temporal Relation Classification

Omri Homburger, Kfir Bar

Are Humans as Brittle as Large Language Models?

Jiahui Li, Sean Papay, Roman Klinger

BhashaSetu: Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer from High-Resource to Extreme Low-Resource Languages

Subhadip Maji, Arnab Bhattacharya

DharmaBench: Evaluating Language Models on Buddhist Texts in Sanskrit and Tibetan

Kai Golan Hashiloni, Shay Cohen, Asaf Shina, Jingyi Yang, Orr Meir Zwebner

The Confidence Paradox: Can LLM Know When It’s Wrong?

Sahil Tripathi, MD Tabrez Nafis, Imran Hussain, Jiechao Gao

LangCompress: Language-Aware Compression of Large Language Models

Dieu-Hien Nguyen, Nguyen-Khang Le, Truong Dinh Do, Le-Minh Nguyen

INTERCHART: Benchmarking Visual Reasoning Across Decomposed and Distributed Chart Information

Anirudh Iyengar Kaniyar Narayana Iyengar, Srija Mukhopadhyay, Adnan Qidwai, Shubhankar Singh, Dan Roth

Task-Aligned Tool Recommendation for Large Language Models

Hang Gao, Yongfeng Zhang

Characterizing Mamba’s Selective Memory using Auto-Encoders

Tamanna Hossain, Robert L. Logan Iv, Chandrasekhara Ganesh Jagadeesan, Sameer Singh, Joel R. Tetreault

A Multimodal Recaptioning Framework to Account for Perceptual Diversity Across Languages in Vision-Language Modeling

Kyle Buettner, Jacob T. Emmerson, Adriana Kovashka

Breaking Bad: Norms for Valence, Arousal, and Dominance for over 10k English Multiword Expressions

Saif M. Mohammad

Atomic Consistency Preference Optimization for Long-Form Question Answering

Jingfeng Chen, Raghuveer Thirukovalluru, Junlin Wang, Kaiwei Luo, Bhuwan Dhingra

MELAC: Massive Evaluation of Large Language Models with Alignment of Culture in Persian Language

Farhan Farsi, Farnaz Aghababaloo, Shahriar Shariati Motlagh, Parsa Ghofrani, MohammadAli SadraeiJavaheri

Curved Worlds, Clear Boundaries: Generalizing Speech Deepfake Detection using Hyperbolic and Spherical Geometry Spaces

Farhan Sheth, Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Muskaan Singh

Decode Like a Clinician: Enhancing LLM Fine-Tuning with Temporal Structured Data Representation

Daniel Fadlon, David Dov, Aviya Bennett, Daphna Heller-Miron, Gad Levy

Rethinking what matters: Effective and Robust Multilingual Realignment for Low-Resource Languages

Quang Phuoc Nguyen, David Anugraha, Félix Gaschi, Jun Bin Cheng, En-Shiun Annie Lee

Hildoc: Leveraging Hilbert Curve Representation for Accurate and Efficient Document Retrieval

Muhammad AL-Qurishi, Zhaozhi Qian, Faroq AL-Tam, Riad Souissi

The Visual Counter Turing Test (VCT²): A Benchmark for Evaluating AI-Generated Image Detection and the Visual AI Index (V_AI)

Nasrin Imanpour, Abhilekh Borah, Shashwat Bajpai, Subhankar Ghosh, Sainath Reddy Sankepally

KERLQA: Knowledge-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Question Answering in Low-resource Languages

Sello Ralethe, Jan Buys

LLMs Do Not See Age: Assessing Demographic Bias in Automated Systematic Review Synthesis

Favour Y. Aghaebe, Elizabeth A Williams, Tanefa Apekey, Nafise Sadat Moosavi

Don’t Take it Literally! Idiom-aware Vietnamese Translation via In-context Learning

Luan Thanh Nguyen, Parisa Kordjamshidi

Doppelganger-JC: Benchmarking the LLMs’ Understanding of Cross-Lingual Homographs between Japanese and Chinese

Yuka Kitamura, Jiahao Huang, Akiko Aizawa

On the Interplay between Positional Encodings, Morphological Complexity, and Word Order Flexibility

Kushal Tatariya, Wessel Poelman, Miryam de Lhoneux

CLASSER: Cross-lingual Annotation Projection enhancement through Script Similarity for Fine-grained Named Entity Recognition

Prachuryya Kaushik, Ashish Anand

Exploring Working Memory Capacity in LLMs: From Stressors to Human-Inspired Strategies

Eunjin Hong, Sumin Cho, Juae Kim

NyayaRAG: Realistic Legal Judgment Prediction with RAG under the Indian Common Law System

Shubham Kumar Nigam, Balaramamahanthi Deepak Patnaik, Shivam Mishra, Ajay Varghese Thomas, Noel Shallum

Are LLMs Rigorous Logical Reasoners? Empowering Natural Language Proof Generation by Stepwise Decoding with Contrastive Learning

Ying Su, Mingwen Liu, Zhijiang Guo

An Adversary-Resistant Multi-Agent LLM System via Credibility Scoring

Sana Ebrahimi, Mohsen Dehghankar, Abolfazl Asudeh

ThaiOCRBench: A Task-Diverse Benchmark for Vision-Language Understanding in Thai

Surapon Nonesung, Teetouch Jaknamon, Sirinya Chaiophat, Natapong Nitarach, Chanakan Wittayasakpan

R²-CoD: Understanding Text-Graph Complementarity in Relational Reasoning via Knowledge Co-Distillation

Zhen Wu, Ritam Dutt, Luke M. Breitfeller, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Siddharth Parekh

A Comparative Study of Human-operated and AI-driven Guidance with a Teleoperated Mobile Robot

Ao Guo, Shota Mochizuki, Sanae Yamashita, Hoshimure Kenya, Jun Baba

SEAGraph: Unveiling the Whole Story of Paper Review Comments

Jianxiang Yu, Jiaqi Tan, Zichen Ding, Jiapeng Zhu, Jiahao Li

Towards Generalizable Generic Harmful Speech Datasets for Implicit Hate Speech Detection

Saad Almohaimeed, Saleh Almohaimeed, Damla Turgut, Ladislau Boloni

TaCL-CoMoE: Task-adaptive Contrastive Learning with Cooperative Mixture of Experts for Multi-task Social Media Analysis

Wang Xingren, Hongde Liu, Liushanhong, Feiyang Meng, Chenyuan He

The Translation Barrier Hypothesis: Multilingual Generation with Large Language Models Suffers from Implicit Translation Failure

Niyati Bafna, Tianjian Li, Kenton Murray, David R. Mortensen, David Yarowsky

Whose story is it? Personalizing story generation by inferring author styles

Nischal Ashok Kumar, Chau Minh Pham, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew Lan

Relation Extraction or Pattern Matching? Unravelling the Generalisation Limits of Language Models for Biographical RE

Varvara Arzt, Allan Hanbury, Michael Wiegand, Gabor Recski, Terra Blevins

ProofTeller: Exposing recency bias in LLM reasoning and its side effects on communication

Mayank Jobanputra, Alisa Kovtunova, Brisca Balthes, Fedor Grigoryevich Pogulskiy, Yifan Wang

Social Bias in Popular Question-Answering Benchmarks

Angelie Kraft, Judith Simon, Sonja Schimmler

Mitigating Label Length Bias in Large Language Models

Mario Sanz-Guerrero, Katharina von der Wense

Enhancing Training Data Quality through Influence Scores for Generalizable Classification: A Case Study on Sexism Detection

Rabiraj Bandyopadhyay, Dennis Assenmacher, Jose Maria Alonso-Moral, Claudia Wagner

Ability Transfer Through Language Mixing

Petr Hyner, Jan Mrógala, Jan Hula

Optimizing the Arrangement of Citations in Related Work Section

Masashi Oshika, Ryohei Sasano

Is Fine-Tuning an Effective Solution? Reassessing Knowledge Editing for Unstructured Data

Hao Xiong, Chuanyuan Tan, Wenliang Chen

Investigating Feasibility of Large Language Model Agent Collaboration in Minecraft and Comparison with Human-Human Collaboration

Yuki Hirota, Ryuichiro Higashinaka

A Japanese Language Model and Three New Evaluation Benchmarks for Pharmaceutical NLP

Shinnosuke Ono, Issey Sukeda, Takuro Fujii, Kosei Buma, Shunsuke Sasaki

Enhancing Investment Opinion Ranking through Argument-Based Sentiment Analysis

Chung-Chi Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Hiroya Takamura, Ichiro Kobayashi

SciHallu: A Multi-Granularity Hallucination Detection Dataset for Scientific Writing

Adiba Ibnat Hossain, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Hamed Alhoori

Observing Micromotives and Macrobehavior of Large Language Models

Yuyang Cheng, Xingwei Qu, Tomas Goldsack, Chenghua Lin, Chung-Chi Chen

Fine-grained Confidence Estimation for Spurious Correctness Detection in Large Language Models

Ai Ishii, Naoya Inoue, Hisami Suzuki, Satoshi Sekine

Quantifying Phonosemantic Iconicity Distributionally in 6 Languages

George Flint, Kaustubh Kislay

Improving Sign Language Understanding with a Multi-Stream Masked Autoencoder Trained on ASL Videos

Junwen Mo, MinhDuc Vo, Hideki Nakayama

Beyond Memorization: Assessing Semantic Generalization in Large Language Models Using Phrasal Constructions

Wesley Scivetti, Melissa Torgbi, Mollie Shichman, Taylor Pellegrin, Austin Blodgett

FastVLM: Self-Speculative Decoding for Fast Vision-Language Model Inference

Divya Jyoti Bajpai, Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

On the Convergence of Moral Self-Correction in Large Language Models

Guangliang Liu, Haitao Mao, Bochuan Cao, Xitong Zhang, Zhiyu Xue

Beyond Classification: Towards Speech Emotion Reasoning with Multitask AudioLLMs

Wenyu Zhang, Yingxu He, Geyu Lin, Zhuohan Liu, Shuo Sun

EmplifAI: a Fine-grained Dataset for Japanese Empathetic Medical Dialogues in 28 Emotion Labels

Wan Jou She, Lis Pereira, Fei Cheng, Sakiko Yahata, Panote Siriaraya

Interpreting Multi-Attribute Confounding through Numerical Attributes in Large Language Models

Hirohane Takagi, Gouki Minegishi, Shota Kizawa, Issey Sukeda, Hitomi Yanaka

How Aligned Are Unimodal Language and Graph Encodings of Chemical Molecules?

Congfeng Cao, Zhi Zhang, Jelke Bloem, Khalil Sima’an

MAJI: A Multi-Agent Workflow for Augmenting Journalistic Interviews

Kaiwen Guo, Yimeng Wu

Critical Thinking: Which Kinds of Complexity Govern Optimal Reasoning Length?

Celine Lee, Alexander M Rush, Keyon Vafa

Generate but Verify: Answering with Faithfulness in RAG-based Question Answering

Simone Filice, Elad Haramaty, Guy Horowitz, Zohar Karnin, Liane Lewin-Eytan

Comparing Language Models of Different Scales for Security-Focused Tabular Query Generation and Reasoning

Varivashya Poladi, Sandipan Dandapat

Multimodal Language Models for Financial Forecasting from Interleaved Sequences of Text and Time Series

Ross Koval, Nicholas Andrews, Xifeng Yan

Chain-of-Query: Unleashing the Power of LLMs in SQL-Aided Table Understanding via Multi-Agent Collaboration

Songyuan Sui, Hongyi Liu, Serena Liu, Li Li, Soo-Hyun Choi

Reasoning Models Reason Well, Until They Don’t

Revanth Rameshkumar, Jimson Huang, Yunxin Sun, Fei Xia, Abulhair Saparov

ProSwitch: Knowledge-Guided Instruction Tuning to Switch Between Professional and Non-Professional Responses

Chang Zong, Yuyan Chen, Weiming Lu, Jian Shao, Yongfeng Huang

Assessing the Limits of In-Context Learning beyond Functions using Partially Ordered Relation

Debanjan Dutta, Faizanuddin Ansari, Swagatam Das

Unveiling Empathic Triggers in Online Interactions via Empathy Cause Identification

Calliope Chloe Bandera, Gyeongeun Lee, Natalie Parde

wavCSE: Learning Fixed-size Unified Speech Embeddings via Feature-based Multi-Task Learning

Braveenan Sritharan, Uthayasanker Thayasivam

How Reliable are Causal Probing Interventions?

Marc E. Canby, Adam Davies, Chirag Rastogi, Julia Hockenmaier

Positional Bias in Long-Document Ranking: Impact, Assessment, and Mitigation

Leonid Boytsov, David Akinpelu, Nipun Katyal, Tianyi Lin, Fangwei Gao

HiPPO: Exploring A Novel Hierarchical Pronunciation Assessment Approach for Spoken Languages

Bi-Cheng Yan, Hsin Wei Wang, Fu-An Chao, Tien-Hong Lo, Yung-Chang Hsu

Multilingual, Not Multicultural: Uncovering the Cultural Empathy Gap in LLMs through a Comparative Empathetic Dialogue Benchmark

Woojin Lee, Yujin Sim, Hongjin Kim, Harksoo Kim

EcomMMMU: Strategic Utilization of Visuals for Robust Multimodal E-commerce Models

Xinyi Ling, Hanwen Du, Zhihui Zhu, Xia Ning

Captions Speak Louder than Images: Generalizing Foundation Models for E-commerce from High-quality Multimodal Instruction Data

Xinyi Ling, Hanwen Du, Bo Peng, Zhihui Zhu, Xia Ning

Fine-Tuning on Noisy Instructions: Effects on Generalization and Performance

Ahmed Alajrami, Xingwei Tan, Nikolaos Aletras

Deconstructing Attention: Investigating Design Principles for Effective Language Modeling

Huiyin Xue, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Nikolaos Aletras

StuD: A Multimodal Approach for Stuttering Detection with RAG and Fusion Strategies

Pragya Khanna, Priyanka Kommagouni, Vamshi Raghu Simha Narasinga, Anil Vuppala

Structured Document Translation via Format Reinforcement Learning

Haiyue Song, Johannes Eschbach-Dymanus, Hour Kaing, Sumire Honda, Hideki Tanaka

PRALEKHA: Cross-Lingual Document Alignment for Indic Languages

Sanjay Suryanarayanan, Haiyue Song, Mohammed Safi Ur Rahman Khan, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Raj Dabre

The Learning Dynamics of Subword Segmentation for Morphologically Diverse Languages

Francois Meyer, Jan Buys

A Survey on LLM-Assisted Clinical Trial Recruitment

Shrestha Ghosh, Moritz Schneider, Carina Reinicke, Carsten Eickhoff

Hidden in Plain Text: Emergence & Mitigation of Steganographic Collusion in LLMs

Yohan Mathew, Ollie Matthews, Robert McCarthy, Joan Velja, Christian Schroeder de Witt

Counterfactual Evaluation for Blind Attack Detection in LLM-based Evaluation Systems

Lijia Liu, Takumi Kondo, Kyohei Atarashi, Koh Takeuchi, Jiyi Li

Multilingual Iterative Model Pruning: What Matters?

Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Haiyue Song, Hideki Tanaka, Masao Utiyama, Alham Fikri Aji

Do LLMs Need Inherent Reasoning Before Reinforcement Learning? A Study in Korean Self-Correction

Hongjin Kim, Jaewook Lee, Kiyoung Lee, Jong-hun Shin, Soojong Lim

SEA-LION: Southeast Asian Languages in One Network

Raymond Ng, Thanh Ngan Nguyen, Huang Yuli, Tai Ngee Chia, Leong Wai Yi

Role-Aware Language Models for Secure and Contextualized Access Control in Organizations

Saeed Almheiri, Yerulan Kongrat, Adrian Santosh, Ruslan Tasmukhanov, Josemaria Loza Vera

Hassles and Uplifts Detection on Social Media Narratives

Jiyu Chen, Sarvnaz Karimi, Diego Molla, Andreas Duenser, Maria Kangas

LLM-Based Behavior Prediction for Social Media Users with Continuous Memory

Kun Li, Chengwei Dai, Wei Zhou, Songlin Hu