Volume 13

Table of contents

1. Efficient Tuning of Large Language Models for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation

   Bo Zhang, Hui Ma, Dailin Li, Jian Ding, Jian Wang, Bo Xu, HongFei Lin

   Article at MIT Press

2. A Systematic Review of NLP for Dementia: Tasks, Datasets and Opportunities

   Lotem Peled-Cohen, Roi Reichart

   Article at MIT Press

3. TALE: Token-Adaptive Low-Rank KVCache Approximation with Reconstruction Elimination

   Jaeseong Lee, seung-won Hwang, Aurick Qiao, Daniel Campos, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He

   Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2025

4. Large Language Models Are Human-Like Internally

   Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Yohei Oseki, Souhaib Ben Taieb, Kentaro Inui, Timothy Baldwin

   Article at MIT Press

5. BenCzechMark : A Czech-centric Multitask and Multimetric Benchmark for Large Language Models with Duel Scoring Mechanism

   Martin Fajcik, Martin Dočekal, Jan Doležal, Karel Ondřej, Karel Beneš, Michal Hradiš, Pavel Smrž, Alexander Polok, Jan Kapsa, Zuzana Neverilova, Aleš Horák, Radoslav Sabol, Michal Štefánik, Adam Jirkovský, David Adamczyk, Petr Hyner, Jan Hůla, Hynek Kydlíček

   Article at MIT Press

6. Adding Chocolate to MINT: Mitigating Metric Interference in Machine Translation

   José Pombal, Nuno M. Guerreiro, Ricardo Rei, André Martins

   Article at MIT Press

7. Objectifying the Subjective: Cognitive Biases in Topic Interpretations

   Swapnil Hingmire, Zane Li, Vivienne Zeng, Ahmed Musa Awon, Luiz Franciscatto Guerra, Neil Ernst

   Article at MIT Press

8. Elements of World Knowledge (EWoK): A cognition-inspired framework for evaluating basic world knowledge in language models

   Anna Ivanova, Aalok Sathe, Benjamin Lipkin, Unnathi Kumar, Setayesh Radkani, Thomas Hikaru Clark, Carina Kauf, Jennifer Hu, R.T. Pramod, Gabriel Grand, Vivian Paulun, Maria Ryskina, Ekin Akyürek, Ethan Wilcox, Nafisa Rashid, Leshem Chosen, Roger Levy, Evelina Fedorenko, Joshua Tenenbaum, Jacob Andreas

   Article at MIT Press

9. End-to-End Long Document Summarization using Gradient Caching

   Rohit Saxena, Hao Tang, Frank Keller

   Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2025

10. MURI: High-Quality Instruction Tuning Datasets for Low-Resource Languages via Reverse Instructions

    Abdullatif Köksal, Marion Thaler, Ayyoob Imani, Ahmet Üstün, Anna Korhonen, Hinrich Schütze

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

11. CRAFT Your Dataset: Task-Specific Synthetic Dataset Generation Through Corpus Retrieval and Augmentation

    Ingo Ziegler, Abdullatif Köksal, Desmond Elliott, Hinrich Schütze

    Article at MIT Press

12. Human Choice Prediction in Language-Based Persuasion Games: Simulation-Based Off-Policy Evaluation

    Eilam Shapira, Omer Madmon, Reut Apel, Moshe Tennenholtz , Roi Reichart

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

13. Adversarial Defence without Adversarial Defence: Enhancing Language Model Robustness via Instance-level Principal Component Removal

    Yang Wang, Chenghao Xiao, Yizhi Li, Stuart E. Middleton, Noura Al Moubayed, Chenghua Lin

14. Exploring Practical Gaps in Using Cross Entropy to Implement Maximum Mutual Information Criterion for Rationalization

    Wei Liu, Zhiying Deng, Zhongyu Niu, Jun Wang, Haozhao Wang, Ruixuan Li

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

15. Benchmarking Linguistic Diversity of Large Language Models

    Yanzhu Guo, Guokan Shang, Chloé Clavel

    Article at MIT Press

16. Do Large Multimodal Models Solve Caption Generation for Scientific Figure? Lessons Learned from SciCap Challenge 2023

    Ting-Yao (Edward) Hsu, Yi-Li Hsu, Shaurya Rohatgi, Chieh-Yang Huang, Ho Yin Ng, Ryan Rossi, Sungchul Kim, Tong Yu, Lun-Wei Ku, Clyde Lee Giles, Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang

17. MTRAG: A Multi-Turn Conversational Benchmark for Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

    Yannis Katsis, Sara Rosenthal, Kshitij Fadnis, Chulaka Gunasekara, Young-Suk Lee, Lucian Popa, Vraj Shah, Huaiyu Zhu, Danish Contractor, Marina Danilevsky

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

18. Culturally Aware and Adapted NLP: A Taxonomy and a Survey of the State of the Art

    Chen Cecilia Liu, Iryna Gurevych, Anna Korhonen

    Article at MIT Press

19. KEFT: Knowledge-Enhanced Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models in Domain-Specific Question Answering

    Haiyun Li, Jixin Zhang, Hua Shen, Ke Cheng, Xiaofeng Huang

    Article at MIT Press

20. Active Knowledge Structuring for Large Language Models in Materials Science Text Mining

    Xin Zhang, Jingling Yuan, Peiliang Zhang, Jia Liu, Lin Li

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2025

21. How to Select Datapoints for Efficient Human Evaluation of NLG Models?

    Vilém Zouhar, Peng Cui, Mrinmaya Sachan

    Article at MIT Press

22. A Unifying Scheme for Extractive Content Selection Tasks

    Shmuel Amar, Ori Shapira, Aviv Slobodkin, Ido Dagan

    Article at MIT Press

23. Early Detection and Reduction of Memorisation for Domain Adaptation and Instruction Tuning

    Dean Slack, Noura Al Moubayed

    Article at MIT Press

24. Towards More Realistic Extraction Attacks: An Adversarial Perspective

    Yash More, Prakhar Ganesh, Golnoosh Farnadi

    Article at MIT Press

25. The Frame Representation Hypothesis: Multi-Token LLM Interpretability and Concept-Guided Text Generation

    Pedro Henrique Vaz Valois, Lincon S. Souza, Erica K. Shimomoto, Kazuhiro Fukui

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2025

26. Overcoming Source Object Grounding for Semantic Image Editing

    yeonjoon jung, Seungtaek Choi, Seung-won Hwang

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2025

27. Explanatory Summarization with Discourse-Driven Planning

    Dongqi Liu, Xi Yu, Vera Demberg, Mirella Lapata

    Article at MIT Press

28. On the Effect of Instruction Tuning Loss on Generalization

    Anwoy Chatterjee, H S V N S Kowndinya Renduchintala, Sumit Bhatia , Tanmoy Chakraborty

    Article at MIT Press

29. BharatBBQ: A Multilingual Bias Benchmark for Question Answering in the Indian Context

    Aditya Tomar, Nihar Ranjan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2025

30. Are Triggers Needed for Document-Level Event Extraction?

    Shaden Shaar, Wayne Chen, Maitreyi Chatterjee, Barry Wang, Wenting Zhao, Claire Cardie

    Article at MIT Press

31. Safe Pruning LoRA: Robust Distance-Guided Pruning for Safety Alignment in Adaptation of LLMs

    Shuang Ao, Yi Dong, Jinwei Hu, Sarvapali Ramchurn

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2025

32. Surveying the Landscape of Image Captioning Evaluation: A Comprehensive Taxonomy, Trends and Metrics Analysis

    Uri Berger, Gabriel Stanovsky, Omri Abend, Lea Frermann

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2025

33. FoVer: First-Order Logic Verification for Natural Language Reasoning

    Pei, Yu, Yongping Du, Xingnan Jin

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2025

34. DARE: Diverse Visual Question Answering with Robustness Evaluation

    Hannah Sterz, Jonas Pfeiffer, Ivan Vuli´c

35. Continual Pre-training on Character-level Noisy Texts Makes Decoder-based Language Models Robust Few-shot Learners

    Takeshi Kojima, Yutaka Matsuo, Yusuke Iwasawa

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2025

36. CRVQ: Channel-Relaxed Vector Quantization for Extreme Compression of LLMs

    Yuzhuang Xu, Shiyu Ji, Qingfu Zhu, Wanxiang Che

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2025

37. Accurate and Efficient Fine-Tuning of Quantized Large Language Models Through Optimal Balance in Adaptation

    Ao Shen, Qiang Wang, Xionglve Li, Lizhi Zhang, Zhiquan Lai, Dongsheng Li, Jiaxin Li

    Article at MIT Press

38. MAKE: Memory-Associated Knowledge Editing

    Seongsik Park, Harksoo Kim, Sangmin Park, Jaieun Kim

    Article at MIT Press

39. OPT-Tree: Speculative Decoding with Adaptive Draft Tree Structure

    Jikai Wang, Yi Su, Juntao Li, Qinrong Xia, Zi Ye, Xinyu Duan, Zhefeng Wang, Min Zhang

    Article at MIT Press

40. Know Your Limits: A Survey of Abstention in Large Language Models

    Bingbing Wen, Jihan Yao, Shangbin Feng, Chenjun Xu, Yulia Tsvetkov, Bill Howe, Lucy Lu Wang

    Article at MIT Press

41. DOLOMITES: Domain-Specific Long-Form Methodical Tasks

    Chaitanya Malaviya, Priyanka Agrawal, Kuzman Ganchev, Pranesh Srinivasan, Fantine Huot, Jonathan Berant, Mark Yatskar, Dipanjan Das, Mirella Lapata, Chris Alberti

    Presented at EMNLP 2024 Article at MIT Press

42. Investigating Adversarial Trigger Transfer in Large Language Models

    Nicholas Carl Meade, Arkil Patel, Siva Reddy

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

43. Supervised Neural Topic Modeling with Label Alignment

    Ruihao Chen, Hegang Chen, Yuyin Lu, Yanghui Rao, Chunjiang Zhu

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

44. The Thai Universal Dependency Treebank

    Panyut Sriwirote, Wei Qi Leong, Charin Polpanumas, Santhawat Thanyawong, William Tjhi, Wirote Aroonmanakun, Attapol T Rutherford

    Article at MIT Press

45. DEAR: Disentangled Event-Agnostic Representation Learning for Early Fake News Detection

    Xiao Pu, Hao Wu, Xiuli Bi, Yu Wu, Xinbo Gao

    Article at MIT Press

46. NLP Security and Ethics, in the Wild

    Heather Lent, Erick Galinkin, Yiyi Chen, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Leon Derczynski, Johannes Bjerva

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

47. Understanding Epistemic Language with a Language-augmented Bayesian Theory of Mind

    Lance Ying, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Lionel Wong, Vikash Mansinghka, Joshua Tenenbaum

    Article at MIT Press

48. Salute the Classic: Revisiting Challenges of Machine Translation in the Age of Large Language Models

    Jianhui Pang, Fanghua Ye, Derek Fai Wong, Dian Yu, Shuming Shi, Zhaopeng Tu, Longyue Wang

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

49. Diverse AI Feedback for Large Language Model Alignment

    Tianshu Yu

    Article at MIT Press

50. LLM Reading Tea Leaves: Automatically Evaluating Topic Models with Large Language Models

    Xiaohao Yang, He Zhao, Dinh Phung, Wray Buntine, Lan Du

    Article at MIT Press

51. Investigating Critical Period Effects in Language Acquisition through Neural Language Models

    Alex Warstadt, Ionut Constantinescu, Tiago Pimentel, Ryan Cotterell

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

52. Benchmarking Uncertainty Quantification Methods for Large Language Models with LM-Polygraph

    Roman Vashurin, Ekaterina Fadeeva, Artem Vazhentsev, Lyudmila Rvanova, Akim Tsvigun, Daniil Vasilev, Rui Xing, Abdelrahman “Boda” Sadallah, Kirill Grishchenkov, Sergey Petrakov, Alexander Panchenko, Timothy Baldwin, Preslav Nakov, Maxim Panov, Artem Shelmanov

    Article at MIT Press

53. Analyzing and Adapting Large Language Models for Few-Shot Multilingual NLU: Are We There Yet?

    Evgeniia Razumovskaia, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen

    Article at MIT Press

54. From Robustness to Improved Generalization and Calibration in Pre-trained Language Models

    Josip Jukić, Jan Šnajder

    Article at MIT Press

55. Phonetic Reconstruction of the Consonant System of Middle Chinese via Mixed Integer Optimization

    Xiaoxi Luo, Weiwei Sun

    Article at MIT Press

56. Learning Syntax Without Planting Trees: Understanding Hierarchical Generalization in Transformers

    Kabir Ahuja, Vidhisha Balachandran, Madhur Panwar, Tianxing He, Noah A. Smith, Navin Goyal, Yulia Tsvetkov

    Article at MIT Press

57. SPIRIT-LM: Interleaved Spoken and Written Language Model

    Tu Anh Nguyen, Benjamin Muller, Bokai Yu, Marta Ruiz Costa-jussà, Maha Elbayadb, Sravya Popuri, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Robin Algayres, Ruslan Mavlyutov, Itai Gat, Gabriel Synnaeve, Juan Pino, Benoît Sagot, Emmanuel Dupoux, Christophe Ropers, Mary Williamson

    Presented at EMNLP 2024 Article at MIT Press

58. A Comparative Approach for Auditing Multilingual Phonetic Transcript Archives: A Case Study on a Large-Scale Multilingual Audio Dataset

    Farhan Samir, Emily, Shreya Prakash, Márton Sóskuthy, Vered Shwartz, Jian Zhu

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

59. Navigating the Landscape of Hint Generation Research: From the Past to the Future

    Anubhav Jangra, Jamshid Mozafari, Adam Jatowt, Smaranda Muresan

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

60. REAL Sampling: Boosting Factuality and Diversity of Open-Ended Generation by Extrapolating the Entropy of an Infinitely Large LM

    Haw-Shiuan Chang, Nanyun Peng, Mohit Bansal, Anil Ramakrishna, Tagyoung Chung

    Article at MIT Press

61. Sense-Specific Historical Word Usage Generation

    Pierluigi Cassotti, Nina Tahmasebi

    Article at MIT Press Presented at ACL 2025

62. How much Semantic Information is Available in Large Language Model Tokens?

    David Haslett, Zhenguang G. Cai

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2025

63. Prompt Contrastive Transformation: An Enhanced Strategy for Efficient Prompt Transfer in Natural Language Processing

    Shu Zhao, Shiji Yang, Shicheng Tan, Zhen Yang, Congyao Mei, Zhen Duan, Yanping Zhang, Jie Chen 

    Article at MIT Press Presented at EMNLP 2025

64. Contextualized Evaluations: Taking the Guesswork Out of Language Model Evaluations

    Chaitanya Malaviya, Joseph Chee Chang, Dan Roth, Mohit Iyyer, Mark Yatskar, Kyle Lo

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

65. STPar: A Structure-Aware Triaffine Parser for Screenplay Character Coreference Resolution

    Li Zheng, Hao Fei, Lei Chen, Bobo Li, Fei Li, Chong Teng, Liang Zhao, Donghong Ji

    Article at MIT Press

66. TANQ: An open domain dataset of table answered questions

    Mubashara Akhtar, Chenxi Pang, Andreea Marzoca, Yasemin Altun, Julian Eisenschlos

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

67. A Confidence-based Acquisition Model for Self-supervised Active Learning and Label Correction

    Carel van Niekerk, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Benjamin Ruppik, Renato Vukovic, Milica Gašić

    Article at MIT Press

68. Self-Rationalization in the Wild: A Large Scale Out-of-Distribution Evaluation on NLI-related tasks

    Jing Yang, Max Glockner, Anderson Rocha, Iryna Gurevych

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

69. Patchwise Cooperative Game-based Interpretability Method for Large Vision-Language Models

    Yao Zhu, Yunjian Zhang, Zizhe Wang, Xiu Yan, Peng Sun, Xiangyang Ji

    Article at MIT Press

70. TaxoPro: A Plug-In LoRA-based Cross-Domain Method for Low-Resource Taxonomy Completion

    Hongyuan Xu, Yuhang Niu, Ciyi Liu, Yanlong Wen, Xiaojie Yuan

    Article at MIT Press

71. Transformers as Transducers

    Lena Strobl, Dana Angluin, David Chiang, Jonathan Rawski, Ashish Sabharwal

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

72. How "Real" is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?

    Sara Papi, Peter Polak, Dominik Macháček, Ondřej Bojar

    Presented at ACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

73. Anchored Preference Optimization and Contrastive Revisions: Addressing Underspecification in Alignment

    Karel Doosterlinck, Winnie Xu, Chris Develder, Thomas Demeester, Amanpreet Singh, Christopher Potts, Douwe Kiela, Shikib Mehri

    Presented at NAACL 2025 Article at MIT Press

74. Navigating Cultural Chasms: Exploring and Unlocking the Cultural POV of Text-To-Image Models

    Mor Ventura, Eyal Ben-David, Anna Korhonen, Roi Reichart

    Article at MIT Press

75. Few-shot Multilingual Open-domain QA from 5 Examples

    Fan Jiang, Tom Drummond, Trevor Cohn

    Article at MIT Press