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Guiding Vision-Language Model Selection for Visual Question-Answering Across Tasks, Domains, and Knowledge Types

Neelabh Sinha, Vinija Jain, Aman Chadha

Comments Accepted at The First Workshop of Evaluation of Multi-Modal Generation (EvalMG) in 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2025. 8 pages + references + 6 pages of Appendix

Exploring the Limitations of Detecting Machine-Generated Text

Jad Doughman, Osama Mohammed Afzal, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Shady Shehata, Preslav Nakov, Zeerak Talat

Comments Accepted to COLING 2025

Evaluating Dialect Robustness of Language Models via Conversation Understanding

Dipankar Srirag, Nihar Ranjan Sahoo, Aditya Joshi

Comments SUMEval@COLING'25

Return of EM: Entity-driven Answer Set Expansion for QA Evaluation

Dongryeol Lee, Minwoo Lee, Kyungmin Min, Joonsuk Park, Kyomin Jung

Comments Accepted at COLING 2025 (16 pages, 4 figures, 11 tables)

GR-NLP-TOOLKIT: An Open-Source NLP Toolkit for Modern Greek

Lefteris Loukas, Nikolaos Smyrnioudis, Chrysa Dikonomaki, Spyros Barbakos, Anastasios Toumazatos, John Koutsikakis, Manolis Kyriakakis, Mary Georgiou, Stavros Vassos, John Pavlopoulos, Ion Androutsopoulos

Comments Accepted Demo Paper @ COLING 2025 (Github: https://github.com/nlpaueb/gr-nlp-toolkit/, Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/AUEB-NLP/greek-nlp-toolkit-demo, API: https://huggingface.co/spaces/AUEB-NLP/The-Greek-NLP-API)

Learning to Reason via Self-Iterative Process Feedback for Small Language Models

Kaiyuan Chen, Jin Wang, Xuejie Zhang

Comments Accepted by COLING 2025

SweetieChat: A Strategy-Enhanced Role-playing Framework for Diverse Scenarios Handling Emotional Support Agent

Jing Ye, Lu Xiang, Yaping Zhang, Chengqing Zong

Comments 24 pages. Accepted by COLING 2025

NyayaAnumana & INLegalLlama: The Largest Indian Legal Judgment Prediction Dataset and Specialized Language Model for Enhanced Decision Analysis

Shubham Kumar Nigam, Balaramamahanthi Deepak Patnaik, Shivam Mishra, Noel Shallum, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Arnab Bhattacharya

Comments Accepted on COLING 2025

BEIR-NL: Zero-shot Information Retrieval Benchmark for the Dutch Language

Nikolay Banar, Ehsan Lotfi, Walter Daelemans

Comments To be presented at BUCC 2025 (COLING)

Discrete Subgraph Sampling for Interpretable Graph based Visual Question Answering

Pascal Tilli, Ngoc Thang Vu

Comments Accepted at COLING 2025

How to Leverage Digit Embeddings to Represent Numbers?

Jasivan Alex Sivakumar, Nafise Sadat Moosavi

Comments Accepted at COLING 2025

Using Game Play to Investigate Multimodal and Conversational Grounding in Large Multimodal Models

Sherzod Hakimov, Yerkezhan Abdullayeva, Kushal Koshti, Antonia Schmidt, Yan Weiser, Anne Beyer, David Schlangen

Comments Accepted at COLING 2025

Understanding Token Probability Encoding in Output Embeddings

Hakaze Cho, Yoshihiro Sakai, Kenshiro Tanaka, Mariko Kato, Naoya Inoue

Comments 15 pages, 17 figures, 3 tables. COLING 2025 Accepted

FTFT: Efficient and Robust Fine-Tuning by Transferring Training Dynamics

Yupei Du, Albert Gatt, Dong Nguyen

Comments COLING 2025 Camera-Ready

CoPrUS: Consistency Preserving Utterance Synthesis towards more realistic benchmark dialogues

Sebastian Steindl, Ulrich Schäfer, Bernd Ludwig

Comments Accepted at COLING 2025 (main, long paper)

Bilingual BSARD: Extending Statutory Article Retrieval to Dutch

Ehsan Lotfi, Nikolay Banar, Nerses Yuzbashyan, Walter Daelemans

Comments To be presented at RegNLP-2025 (COLING)

Data Quality Enhancement on the Basis of Diversity with Large Language Models for Text Classification: Uncovered, Difficult, and Noisy

Min Zeng, Caiquan Liu, Shiqi Zhang, Li Xie, Chen Sang, Xiaoxin Chen

Comments Accepted by COLING 2025(main, long paper)

CFSP: An Efficient Structured Pruning Framework for LLMs with Coarse-to-Fine Activation Information

Yuxin Wang, Minghua Ma, Zekun Wang, Jingchang Chen, Huiming Fan, Liping Shan, Qing Yang, Dongliang Xu, Ming Liu, Bing Qin

Comments Proc. The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2025)

BnSentMix: A Diverse Bengali-English Code-Mixed Dataset for Sentiment Analysis

Sadia Alam, Md Farhan Ishmam, Navid Hasin Alvee, Md Shahnewaz Siddique, Md Azam Hossain, Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal

Comments LoResLM at COLING 2025

CPsyExam: A Chinese Benchmark for Evaluating Psychology using Examinations

Jiahao Zhao, Jingwei Zhu, Minghuan Tan, Min Yang, Renhao Li, Di Yang, Chenhao Zhang, Guancheng Ye, Chengming Li, Xiping Hu, Derek F. Wong

Comments To appear in COLING 2025

SciNews: From Scholarly Complexities to Public Narratives -- A Dataset for Scientific News Report Generation

Dongqi Liu, Yifan Wang, Jia Loy, Vera Demberg

Comments LREC-COLING 2024 Main Conference Paper

Investigating Bias in LLM-Based Bias Detection: Disparities between LLMs and Human Perception

Luyang Lin, Lingzhi Wang, Jinsong Guo, Kam-Fai Wong

Comments COLING 2025

GEAR: A Simple GENERATE, EMBED, AVERAGE AND RANK Approach for Unsupervised Reverse Dictionary

Fatemah Almeman, Luis Espinosa-Anke

Comments 9 pages, Accepted at COLING 2025

Annotations for Exploring Food Tweets From Multiple Aspects

Matīss Rikters, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Rinalds Vīksna

Journal ref Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

On the effective transfer of knowledge from English to Hindi Wikipedia

Paramita Das, Amartya Roy, Ritabrata Chakraborty, Animesh Mukherjee

Comments accepted at COLING Industry Track 2025

TartuNLP at EvaLatin 2024: Emotion Polarity Detection

Aleksei Dorkin, Kairit Sirts

Comments Added Acknowledgments section

Journal ref Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA) @ LREC-COLING-2024

How Many Languages Make Good Multilingual Instruction Tuning? A Case Study on BLOOM

Shaoxiong Ji, Pinzhen Chen

Comments COLING 2025

FIPO: Free-form Instruction-oriented Prompt Optimization with Preference Dataset and Modular Fine-tuning Schema

Junru Lu, Siyu An, Min Zhang, Yulan He, Di Yin, Xing Sun

Comments COLING 2025, Final Version

1-800-SHARED-TASKS at RegNLP: Lexical Reranking of Semantic Retrieval (LeSeR) for Regulatory Question Answering

Jebish Purbey, Drishti Sharma, Siddhant Gupta, Khawaja Murad, Siddartha Pullakhandam, Ram Mohan Rao Kadiyala

Comments 5 pages, Accepted to RegNLP @ COLING 2025

Multi-View Incongruity Learning for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection

Diandian Guo, Cong Cao, Fangfang Yuan, Yanbing Liu, Guangjie Zeng, Xiaoyan Yu, Hao Peng, Philip S. Yu

Comments Accepted to COLING 2025