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KRISTEVA: Close Reading as a Novel Task for Benchmarking Interpretive Reasoning

Peiqi Sui, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Philippe Laban, Dean Murphy, Joseph P. Dexter, Richard Jean So, Samuel Baker, Pramit Chaudhuri

Comments ACL 2025 main

LazyReview A Dataset for Uncovering Lazy Thinking in NLP Peer Reviews

Sukannya Purkayastha, Zhuang Li, Anne Lauscher, Lizhen Qu, Iryna Gurevych

机构 * Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, Department of Computer Science and Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI), Technical University of Darmstadt（德意志联邦共和国达姆施塔特技术大学） ； School of Computing Technologies, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia（澳大利亚皇家墨尔本理工学院） ； Data Science Group, University of Hamburg（汉堡大学） ； Department of Data Science & AI, Monash University, Australia（澳大利亚墨尔本大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted at ACL 2025: 29 pages, 18 Figures, 15 Tables

Leveraging Human Production-Interpretation Asymmetries to Test LLM Cognitive Plausibility

Suet-Ying Lam, Qingcheng Zeng, Jingyi Wu, Rob Voigt

Comments ACL 2025 Camera-ready

Meta-Learning Neural Mechanisms rather than Bayesian Priors

Michael Goodale, Salvador Mascarenhas, Yair Lakretz

机构 * Institut Jean Nicod（让·纳科德研究所） ； Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique（认知科学与心理语言学实验室） ； Département d’études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, CNRS, PSL University（认知研究部，法兰西学院，高等科学研究所，国家科学研究中心，巴黎综合理工学院） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 Main

Splintering Nonconcatenative Languages for Better Tokenization

Bar Gazit, Shaltiel Shmidman, Avi Shmidman, Yuval Pinter

机构 * Department of Computer Science（计算机科学系） ； Data Science Research Center（数据科学研究中心） ； Bar-Ilan University（巴伊兰大学） ； Ben-Gurion University of the Negev（贝内-约瑟夫大学（内盖夫分校）） ； δ DICTA, Jerusalem, Israel（δ DICTA，耶路撒冷，以色列） 纠错

Comments Findings of the ACL 2025

Mitigating Visual Forgetting via Take-along Visual Conditioning for Multi-modal Long CoT Reasoning

Hai-Long Sun, Zhun Sun, Houwen Peng, Han-Jia Ye

机构 * School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University（南京大学人工智能学院） ； National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University（南京大学新型软件技术国家重点实验室） ； Tencent（腾讯） ； Center for Language AI Research, Tohoku University（东北大学语言人工智能研究中心） ； RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project（日本理化学研究所先进人工智能项目中心） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025. The project page is available at https://sun-hailong.github.io/projects/TVC

The time scale of redundancy between prosody and linguistic context

Tamar I. Regev, Chiebuka Ohams, Shaylee Xie, Lukas Wolf, Evelina Fedorenko, Alex Warstadt, Ethan G. Wilcox, Tiago Pimentel

机构 * MIT（麻省理工学院） ； Wellesley College（韦尔斯利学院） ； ETH Zürich（苏黎世联邦理工学院） ； UCSD（加州大学圣地亚戈分校） ； Georgetown（乔治城大学） 纠错

Comments 13 pages, 4 figures, accepted to ACL. Updated following ACL reviewers comments

Collapse of Dense Retrievers: Short, Early, and Literal Biases Outranking Factual Evidence

Mohsen Fayyaz, Ali Modarressi, Hinrich Schuetze, Nanyun Peng

机构 * University of California, Los Angeles（加州大学洛杉矶分校） ； CIS, LMU Munich（慕尼黑路德维希-马克西米利安大学计算机学院） ； Munich Center for Machine Learning（慕尼黑机器学习中心） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Main Conference

Towards Enhanced Immersion and Agency for LLM-based Interactive Drama

Hongqiu Wu, Weiqi Wu, Tianyang Xu, Jiameng Zhang, Hai Zhao

机构 * School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学计算机科学学院） ； University of Zurich（苏黎世大学） ； Key Laboratory of Shanghai Education Commission for Intelligent Interaction and Cognitive Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海教育委员会智能交互与认知工程重点实验室，上海交通大学） ； Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trusted Data Circulation and Governance in Web3（上海Web3可信数据流通与治理重点实验室） 纠错

Comments Accepted by ACL'2025

CoT-UQ: Improving Response-wise Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs with Chain-of-Thought

Boxuan Zhang, Ruqi Zhang

机构 * Purdue University（普渡大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted by ACL 2025 Findings

Symmetrical Visual Contrastive Optimization: Aligning Vision-Language Models with Minimal Contrastive Images

Shengguang Wu, Fan-Yun Sun, Kaiyue Wen, Nick Haber

机构 * Stanford University（斯坦福大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 Main. Project Website: https://s-vco.github.io/

SEA: Low-Resource Safety Alignment for Multimodal Large Language Models via Synthetic Embeddings

Weikai Lu, Hao Peng, Huiping Zhuang, Cen Chen, Ziqian Zeng

机构 * South China University of Technology, China（华南理工大学） ； Beihang University, China（北航） ； Pazhou Laboratory, China（琶洲实验室） 纠错

Comments Accepted in ACL 2025 Main Track

Focused-DPO: Enhancing Code Generation Through Focused Preference Optimization on Error-Prone Points

Kechi Zhang, Ge Li, Jia Li, Yihong Dong, Jia Li, Zhi Jin

Comments Camera Ready version for ACL 2025 (Findings)

Exposing Numeracy Gaps: A Benchmark to Evaluate Fundamental Numerical Abilities in Large Language Models

Haoyang Li, Xuejia Chen, Zhanchao XU, Darian Li, Nicole Hu, Fei Teng, Yiming Li, Luyu Qiu, Chen Jason Zhang, Qing Li, Lei Chen

机构 * Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学） ； Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学） ； The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted by ACL 2025

Akan Cinematic Emotions (ACE): A Multimodal Multi-party Dataset for Emotion Recognition in Movie Dialogues

David Sasu, Zehui Wu, Ziwei Gong, Run Chen, Pengyuan Shi, Lin Ai, Julia Hirschberg, Natalie Schluter

机构 * IT University of Copenhagen（丹麦技术大学） ； Columbia University（哥伦比亚大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to Findings at ACL 2025

TACLR: A Scalable and Efficient Retrieval-based Method for Industrial Product Attribute Value Identification

Yindu Su, Huike Zou, Lin Sun, Ting Zhang, Haiyang Yang, Liyu Chen, David Lo, Qingheng Zhang, Shuguang Han, Jufeng Chen

机构 * Xianyu of Alibaba（阿里严选） ； Singapore Management University（新加坡管理大学） ； Hangzhou City University（杭州城市学院） 纠错

Comments Accepted at ACL 2025

Explicit vs. Implicit: Investigating Social Bias in Large Language Models through Self-Reflection

Yachao Zhao, Bo Wang, Yan Wang, Dongming Zhao, Ruifang He, Yuexian Hou

机构 * College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University（智能与计算学院，天津大学） ； AI Lab, China Mobile Communication Group Tianjin Co., Ltd.（中国移动通信集团天津有限公司人工智能实验室） 纠错

Comments Accepted by ACL 2025

Behind Closed Words: Creating and Investigating the forePLay Annotated Dataset for Polish Erotic Discourse

Anna Kołos, Katarzyna Lorenc, Emilia Wiśnios, Agnieszka Karlińska

机构 * NASK National Research Institute（国家研究 institute） 纠错

Comments Accepted for ACL 2025 Main Conference

HybGRAG: Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Textual and Relational Knowledge Bases

Meng-Chieh Lee, Qi Zhu, Costas Mavromatis, Zhen Han, Soji Adeshina, Vassilis N. Ioannidis, Huzefa Rangwala, Christos Faloutsos

机构 * Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学） ； Amazon（亚马逊） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025

SCOPE: Optimizing Key-Value Cache Compression in Long-context Generation

Jialong Wu, Zhenglin Wang, Linhai Zhang, Yilong Lai, Yulan He, Deyu Zhou

Comments ACL 2025

HateDay: Insights from a Global Hate Speech Dataset Representative of a Day on Twitter

Manuel Tonneau, Diyi Liu, Niyati Malhotra, Scott A. Hale, Samuel P. Fraiberger, Victor Orozco-Olvera, Paul Röttger

机构 * University of Oxford（牛津大学） ； World Bank（世界银行） ； New York University（纽约大学） ； Meedan ； Bocconi University（博科尼大学） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 main conference. Data available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/manueltonneau/hateday

Value-Spectrum: Quantifying Preferences of Vision-Language Models via Value Decomposition in Social Media Contexts

Jingxuan Li, Yuning Yang, Shengqi Yang, Linfan Zhang, Ying Nian Wu

机构 * University of California, Los Angeles（加州大学洛杉矶分校） ； Los Alamos National Laboratory（洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 main

SHARP: Unlocking Interactive Hallucination via Stance Transfer in Role-Playing LLMs

Chuyi Kong, Ziyang Luo, Hongzhan Lin, Zhiyuan Fan, Yaxin Fan, Yuxi Sun, Jing Ma

Comments 28 pages, unfortunately accepted to findings with Meta 4, acknowledge and apologize to the reviewers and area chair who support our work in the discussion period

Journal ref ACL 2025 Finding

The Tug of War Within: Mitigating the Fairness-Privacy Conflicts in Large Language Models

Chen Qian, Dongrui Liu, Jie Zhang, Yong Liu, Jing Shao

机构 * Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China（中国人民大学人工智能学院） ； Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory（上海人工智能实验室） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Main Conference

Watching the Watchers: Exposing Gender Disparities in Machine Translation Quality Estimation

Emmanouil Zaranis, Giuseppe Attanasio, Sweta Agrawal, André F. T. Martins

机构 * Instituto de Telecomunicações（电信研究所） ； Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa（里斯本大学技术高等学院） ； Unbabel 纠错

Comments ACL 2025

CodeDPO: Aligning Code Models with Self Generated and Verified Source Code

Kechi Zhang, Ge Li, Yihong Dong, Jingjing Xu, Jun Zhang, Jing Su, Yongfei Liu, Zhi Jin

Comments Camera Ready version for ACL 2025 (main)

CulturalBench: A Robust, Diverse, and Challenging Cultural Benchmark by Human-AI CulturalTeaming

Yu Ying Chiu, Liwei Jiang, Bill Yuchen Lin, Chan Young Park, Shuyue Stella Li, Sahithya Ravi, Mehar Bhatia, Maria Antoniak, Yulia Tsvetkov, Vered Shwartz, Yejin Choi

机构 * University of Washington（华盛顿大学） ； University of British Columbia（不列颠哥伦比亚大学） ； Vector Institute for AI（人工智能向量研究所） ； McGill University（麦吉尔大学） ； University of Copenhagen（哥本哈根大学） ； Stanford University（斯坦福大学） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Main, 39 pages, 16 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2404.06664

Answer When Needed, Forget When Not: Language Models Pretend to Forget via In-Context Knowledge Unlearning

Shota Takashiro, Takeshi Kojima, Andrew Gambardella, Qi Cao, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo

机构 * The University of Tokyo（东京大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted at ACL 2025 (Findings)

FIHA: Autonomous Hallucination Evaluation in Vision-Language Models with Davidson Scene Graphs

Bowen Yan, Zhengsong Zhang, Liqiang Jing, Eftekhar Hossain, Xinya Du

机构 * University of Texas at Dallas（德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校） 纠错

Comments Accepted by Findings of ACL 2025

Localizing and Mitigating Errors in Long-form Question Answering

Rachneet Sachdeva, Yixiao Song, Mohit Iyyer, Iryna Gurevych

Comments ACL 2025 Findings; Code and data are available: https://github.com/UKPLab/acl2025-lfqa-hallucination