COLING

Does RAG Introduce Unfairness in LLMs? Evaluating Fairness in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Xuyang Wu, Shuowei Li, Hsin-Tai Wu, Zhiqiang Tao, Yi Fang

Comments Published at COLING 2025

LAG-MMLU: Benchmarking Frontier LLM Understanding in Latvian and Giriama

Naome A. Etori, Kevin Lu, Randu Karisa, Arturs Kanepajs

Comments Accepted at NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025. https://hdl.handle.net/10062/107190

Journal ref Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025) : Proceedings of the Conference: March 3-4, 2025

MAC-SQL: A Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework for Text-to-SQL

Bing Wang, Changyu Ren, Jian Yang, Xinnian Liang, Jiaqi Bai, LinZheng Chai, Zhao Yan, Qian-Wen Zhang, Di Yin, Xing Sun, Zhoujun Li

Comments Accepted by COLING 2025 (Oral)

Got Compute, but No Data: Lessons From Post-training a Finnish LLM

Elaine Zosa, Ville Komulainen, Sampo Pyysalo

Comments 7 pages

Journal ref Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)

Decoding Echo Chambers: LLM-Powered Simulations Revealing Polarization in Social Networks

Chenxi Wang, Zongfang Liu, Dequan Yang, Xiuying Chen

Comments Accepted by COLING 2025

CLEANANERCorp: Identifying and Correcting Incorrect Labels in the ANERcorp Dataset

Mashael Al-Duwais, Hend Al-Khalifa, Abdulmalik Al-Salman

Comments Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT) with Shared Tasks on Arabic LLMs Hallucination and Dialect to MSA Machine Translation @ LREC-COLING 2024

Journal ref ELRA and ICCL 2024

Hands-off Image Editing: Language-guided Editing without any Task-specific Labeling, Masking or even Training

Rodrigo Santos, António Branco, João Silva, João Rodrigues

Comments Published in COLING 2025

Danoliteracy of Generative Large Language Models

Søren Vejlgaard Holm, Lars Kai Hansen, Martin Carsten Nielsen

Comments 16 pages, 13 figures, Accepted to NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025

Journal ref Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models via Deconvolution in Subspace

Jia-Chen Zhang, Yu-Jie Xiong, Chun-Ming Xia, Dong-Hai Zhu, Xi-He Qiu

Comments COLING 2025 main conference

LaERC-S: Improving LLM-based Emotion Recognition in Conversation with Speaker Characteristics

Yumeng Fu, Junjie Wu, Zhongjie Wang, Meishan Zhang, Lili Shan, Yulin Wu, Bingquan Li

Comments COLING 2025

Dynamics of Instruction Fine-Tuning for Chinese Large Language Models

Chiyu Song, Zhanchao Zhou, Jianhao Yan, Yuejiao Fei, Zhenzhong Lan, Yue Zhang

Comments Accepted to COLING 2025

Tutorial Proposal: Speculative Decoding for Efficient LLM Inference

Heming Xia, Cunxiao Du, Yongqi Li, Qian Liu, Wenjie Li

Comments COLING 2025 Tutorial. Our homepage: https://speculative-decoding.github.io/

Zero-shot and Few-shot Learning with Instruction-following LLMs for Claim Matching in Automated Fact-checking

Dina Pisarevskaya, Arkaitz Zubiaga

Comments Published at the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025). Compared to the conference version of the paper, the dataset link is added here & 2 minor typos fixed

Journal ref Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2025, pages 9721-9736, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Who Wrote This? The Key to Zero-Shot LLM-Generated Text Detection Is GECScore

Junchao Wu, Runzhe Zhan, Derek F. Wong, Shu Yang, Xuebo Liu, Lidia S. Chao, Min Zhang

Comments COLING 2025

Momentum Posterior Regularization for Multi-hop Dense Retrieval

Zehua Xia, Yuyang Wu, Yiyun Xia, Cam-Tu Nguyen

Comments Accepted by COLING 2025

NYT-Connections: A Deceptively Simple Text Classification Task that Stumps System-1 Thinkers

Angel Yahir Loredo Lopez, Tyler McDonald, Ali Emami

Comments 5 pages (excluding references), Published at Coling 2025, Best Dataset Paper Award

ELLEN: Extremely Lightly Supervised Learning For Efficient Named Entity Recognition

Haris Riaz, Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru, Mihai Surdeanu

Comments Accepted to LREC-COLING 2024

ACL-rlg: A Dataset for Reading List Generation

Julien Aubert-Béduchaud, Florian Boudin, Béatrice Daille, Richard Dufour

Journal ref The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Jan 2025, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

GenAI Content Detection Task 1: English and Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection: AI vs. Human

Yuxia Wang, Artem Shelmanov, Jonibek Mansurov, Akim Tsvigun, Vladislav Mikhailov, Rui Xing, Zhuohan Xie, Jiahui Geng, Giovanni Puccetti, Ekaterina Artemova, Jinyan Su, Minh Ngoc Ta, Mervat Abassy, Kareem Ashraf Elozeiri, Saad El Dine Ahmed El Etter, Maiya Goloburda, Tarek Mahmoud, Raj Vardhan Tomar, Nurkhan Laiyk, Osama Mohammed Afzal, Ryuto Koike, Masahiro Kaneko, Alham Fikri Aji, Nizar Habash, Iryna Gurevych, Preslav Nakov

Comments 18 pages

Journal ref Proceedings of the 1stWorkshop on GenAI Content Detection (GenAIDetect) in COLING 2025

From Priest to Doctor: Domain Adaptation for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Ali Marashian, Enora Rice, Luke Gessler, Alexis Palmer, Katharina von der Wense

Journal ref In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (2025) 7087-7098

Revisiting Jailbreaking for Large Language Models: A Representation Engineering Perspective

Tianlong Li, Zhenghua Wang, Wenhao Liu, Muling Wu, Shihan Dou, Changze Lv, Xiaohua Wang, Xiaoqing Zheng, Xuanjing Huang

Comments Accepted by COLING 2025

MLaKE: Multilingual Knowledge Editing Benchmark for Large Language Models

Zihao Wei, Jingcheng Deng, Liang Pang, Hanxing Ding, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng

Comments Accepted as a full paper at COLING 2025

Is my Meeting Summary Good? Estimating Quality with a Multi-LLM Evaluator

Frederic Kirstein, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp

Journal ref COLING 2025 Industry Track

What's Wrong? Refining Meeting Summaries with LLM Feedback

Frederic Kirstein, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp

Journal ref COLING 2025

Towards Human Understanding of Paraphrase Types in Large Language Models

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

Journal ref Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (2025), pages 6298-6316

BiLD: Bi-directional Logits Difference Loss for Large Language Model Distillation

Minchong Li, Feng Zhou, Xiaohui Song

Comments COLING 2025

REVERSUM: A Multi-staged Retrieval-Augmented Generation Method to Enhance Wikipedia Tail Biographies through Personal Narratives

Sayantan Adak, Pauras Mangesh Meher, Paramita Das, Animesh Mukherjee

Comments Accepted at COLING2025 Industry Track

Journal ref https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-industry.61/

RA-MTR: A Retrieval Augmented Multi-Task Reader based Approach for Inspirational Quote Extraction from Long Documents

Sayantan Adak, Animesh Mukherjee

Comments Accepted at COLING2025-MAIN

Journal ref https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.365/

RichRAG: Crafting Rich Responses for Multi-faceted Queries in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Shuting Wang, Xin Yu, Mang Wang, Weipeng Chen, Yutao Zhu, Zhicheng Dou

Journal ref https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2025.coling-main/

Neuro-Conceptual Artificial Intelligence: Integrating OPM with Deep Learning to Enhance Question Answering Quality

Xin Kang, Veronika Shteingardt, Yuhan Wang, Dov Dori

Comments 15 pages, 3 figures,

Journal ref International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 1-15, Jan. 2025