EMNLP

Culturally-Aware Conversations: A Framework & Benchmark for LLMs

Shreya Havaldar, Sunny Rai, Young-Min Cho, Lyle Ungar

机构 * University of Pennsylvania（宾夕法尼亚大学） 纠错

Comments To appear at the 4th HCI + NLP Workshop @ EMNLP

Saten: Sparse Augmented Tensor Networks for Post-Training Compression of Large Language Models

Ryan Solgi, Kai Zhen, Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan, Nathan Susanj, Athanasios Mouchtaris, Siegfried Kunzmann, Zheng Zhang

机构 * University of California-Santa Barbara（加州大学圣巴巴拉分校） ； Amazon（亚马逊） 纠错

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025

FOSSIL: Harnessing Feedback on Suboptimal Samples for Data-Efficient Generalisation with Imitation Learning for Embodied Vision-and-Language Tasks

Sabrina McCallum, Amit Parekh, Alessandro Suglia

机构 * University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学） ； Heriot-Watt University（赫瑞思-瓦特大学） 纠错

Comments EMNLP 2025 Findings

Attacks by Content: Automated Fact-checking is an AI Security Issue

Michael Schlichtkrull

机构 * School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science（电子工程与计算机科学学院） ； Queen Mary University of London（伦敦女王学院） 纠错

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025

XQuant: Achieving Ultra-Low Bit KV Cache Quantization with Cross-Layer Compression

Haoqi Yang, Yao Yao, Zuchao Li, Baoyuan Qi, Guoming Liu, Hai Zhao

机构 * School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University（武汉大学人工智能学院） ； School of Computer Science, Wuhan University（武汉大学计算机学院） ； School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学计算机学院） ； Xiaomi Inc.（小米公司） 纠错

Comments To be published in The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)

Discursive Circuits: How Do Language Models Understand Discourse Relations?

Yisong Miao, Min-Yen Kan

机构 * Web IR / NLP Group (WING)（网络信息检索与自然语言处理组） 纠错

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Main Conference); 9 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables (20 pages, 12 figures, 14 tables including references and appendices)

SocioBench: Modeling Human Behavior in Sociological Surveys with Large Language Models

Jia Wang, Ziyu Zhao, Tingjuntao Ni, Zhongyu Wei

Comments Accepted by EMNLP 2025

COCO-Tree: Compositional Hierarchical Concept Trees for Enhanced Reasoning in Vision Language Models

Sanchit Sinha, Guangzhi Xiong, Aidong Zhang

机构 * University of Virginia（弗吉尼亚大学） 纠错

Comments EMNLP 2025 (main)

Toward Human-Centered Readability Evaluation

Bahar İlgen, Georges Hattab

机构 * Center for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research (ZKI-PH)（公共健康研究中的人工智能研究中心） ； Robert Koch Institute（罗伯特· Koch 研究所） ； Department of Mathematics and Computer Science（数学与计算机科学系） 纠错

Comments Accepted to the 4th Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and NLP (HCI+NLP) at EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China

Unlocking LLM Safeguards for Low-Resource Languages via Reasoning and Alignment with Minimal Training Data

Zhuowei Chen, Bowei Zhang, Nankai Lin, Tian Hou, Lianxi Wang

机构 * Guangdong University of Foreign Studies（广东外语外贸大学） ； Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Multilingual Intelligent Processing（广州多语智能处理重点实验室） ； University of Pittsburgh（匹兹堡大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to MRL Workshop at EMNLP 2025

BitMar: Low-Bit Multimodal Fusion with Episodic Memory for Edge Devices

Euhid Aman, Esteban Carlin, Hsing-Kuo Pao, Giovanni Beltrame, Ghaluh Indah Permata Sari, Yie-Tarng Chen

机构 * NTUST（国立台湾科技大学） ； Polytechnique Montréal（蒙特利尔理工学院） 纠错

Comments 6 pages, BabyLM Workshop, EMNLP 2025

NIM: Neuro-symbolic Ideographic Metalanguage for Inclusive Communication

Prawaal Sharma, Poonam Goyal, Navneet Goyal, Vidisha Sharma

机构 * Infosys Pune, Maharashtra, India（印度马哈拉施特拉邦皮内斯的英仕思公司） ； BITS Pilani Pilani, Rajasthan, India（印度拉贾斯坦邦皮内斯的比斯-皮兰学院） ； BITS Pilani Goa, India（印度果阿的比斯-皮兰学院） 纠错

Comments 9 pages, EMNLP Findings 2025

STEAM: A Semantic-Level Knowledge Editing Framework for Large Language Models

Geunyeong Jeong, Juoh Sun, Seonghee Lee, Harksoo Kim

机构 * Konkuk University（韩国康康大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Findings)

Formalizing Style in Personal Narratives

Gustave Cortal, Alain Finkel

Journal ref Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025), Nov 2025, Suzhou, China

DrDiff: Dynamic Routing Diffusion with Hierarchical Attention for Breaking the Efficiency-Quality Trade-off

Jusheng Zhang, Yijia Fan, Kaitong Cai, Zimeng Huang, Xiaofei Sun, Jian Wang, Chengpei Tang, Keze Wang

Comments Accepted 2025 EMNLP (MainConference)

Talk Less, Call Right: Enhancing Role-Play LLM Agents with Automatic Prompt Optimization and Role Prompting

Saksorn Ruangtanusak, Pittawat Taveekitworachai, Kunat Pipatanakul

机构 * SCBX R&D（SCBX研发部） ； SCB 10X R&D（SCB 10X研发部） 纠错

Comments EMNLP 2025 Wordplay Workshop (Spotlight)

The Enemy from Within: A Study of Political Delegitimization Discourse in Israeli Political Speech

Naama Rivlin-Angert, Guy Mor-Lan

Comments EMNLP 2025

MRFD: Multi-Region Fusion Decoding with Self-Consistency for Mitigating Hallucinations in LVLMs

Haonan Ge, Yiwei Wang, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Yujun Cai

机构 * Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at Merced（计算机科学与工程系，加州大学默塞德分校） 纠错

Comments EMNLP 2025

PhoniTale: Phonologically Grounded Mnemonic Generation for Typologically Distant Language Pairs

Sana Kang, Myeongseok Gwon, Su Young Kwon, Jaewook Lee, Andrew Lan, Bhiksha Raj, Rita Singh

机构 * KAIST（韩国科学技术院） ； University of Massachusetts Amherst（马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校） ； Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025 Main Conference

MFTCXplain: A Multilingual Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating the Moral Reasoning of LLMs through Multi-hop Hate Speech Explanation

Jackson Trager, Francielle Vargas, Diego Alves, Matteo Guida, Mikel K. Ngueajio, Ameeta Agrawal, Yalda Daryani, Farzan Karimi-Malekabadi, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco

机构 * University of Southern California（南加州大学） ； São Paulo State University（圣保罗州立大学） ； Saarland University（萨尔兰大学） ； University of Melbourne（墨尔本大学） ； Howard University（霍华德大学） ； Portland State University（波特兰州立大学） ； Leiden University（莱顿大学） 纠错

Comments Jackson Trager and Francielle Vargas contributed equally

Journal ref Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025

Are Language Models Consequentialist or Deontological Moral Reasoners?

Keenan Samway, Max Kleiman-Weiner, David Guzman Piedrahita, Rada Mihalcea, Bernhard Schölkopf, Zhijing Jin

机构 * Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems（马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所） ； University of Washington（华盛顿大学） ； University of Zürich（苏黎世大学） ； University of Michigan（密歇根大学） ； University of Toronto（多伦多大学） ； Vector Institute（向量研究所） 纠错

Comments EMNLP 2025

TCP: a Benchmark for Temporal Constraint-Based Planning

Zifeng Ding, Sikuan Yan, Zhangdie Yuan, Xianglong Hu, Fangru Lin, Andreas Vlachos

机构 * University of Cambridge（剑桥大学） ； LMU Munich（慕尼黑大学） ； Amazon（亚马逊公司） ； University of Oxford（牛津大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025 main conference

From Problem-Solving to Teaching Problem-Solving: Aligning LLMs with Pedagogy using Reinforcement Learning

David Dinucu-Jianu, Jakub Macina, Nico Daheim, Ido Hakimi, Iryna Gurevych, Mrinmaya Sachan

机构 * Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich（苏黎世联邦理工学院计算机科学系） ； ETH AI Center（ETH人工智能中心） ； Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Germany（达姆施塔特技术大学计算机科学系、应用网络安全国家研究中心ATHENE） 纠错

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025 Main as an oral presentation. David Dinucu-Jianu and Jakub Macina contributed equally. Code available: https://github.com/eth-lre/PedagogicalRL

LiTransProQA: an LLM-based Literary Translation evaluation metric with Professional Question Answering

Ran Zhang, Wei Zhao, Lieve Macken, Steffen Eger

机构 * Natural Language Learning Group (NLLG) School of Business Informatics and Mathematics University of Mannheim（曼海姆大学商业信息学与数学学院自然语言学习组） ； University of Aberdeen, Department of Computing Science（阿伯丁大学计算机科学系） ； University of Gent, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication（根特大学翻译、口译与传播系） ； University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), Department Engineering（纽伦堡技术大学工程系） ； Natural Language Learning and Generation (NLLG) Lab（自然语言学习与生成（NLLG）实验室） 纠错

Comments Accepted as a main paper at EMNLP 2025. CR version

MathTutorBench: A Benchmark for Measuring Open-ended Pedagogical Capabilities of LLM Tutors

Jakub Macina, Nico Daheim, Ido Hakimi, Manu Kapur, Iryna Gurevych, Mrinmaya Sachan

机构 * Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich（苏黎世联邦理工学院计算机科学系） ； ETH AI Center（ETH人工智能中心） ； Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Germany（达姆施塔特技术大学计算机科学系） ； Professorship for Learning Sciences and Higher Education, ETH Zurich（苏黎世联邦理工学院学习科学与高等教育教授职位） 纠错

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025 Main as an oral presentation. Website: https://eth-lre.github.io/mathtutorbench

LIDDIA: Language-based Intelligent Drug Discovery Agent

Reza Averly, Frazier N. Baker, Ian A. Watson, Xia Ning

机构 * Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, USA（俄亥俄州立大学计算机科学与工程系） ； Independent Researcher（独立研究者） ； Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, USA（俄亥俄州立大学生物医学信息学系） ； Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University, USA（俄亥俄州立大学转化数据分析研究所） ； College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, USA（俄亥俄州立大学药学院） 纠错

Comments EMNLP 2025 Main Conference

Who Speaks Matters: Analysing the Influence of the Speaker's Ethnicity on Hate Classification

Ananya Malik, Kartik Sharma, Shaily Bhatt, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng

机构 * Northeastern University（东北大学） ； Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院） ； Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学） 纠错

Comments 9 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables. To appear in EMNLP 2025 findings

DixitWorld: Evaluating Multimodal Abductive Reasoning in Vision-Language Models with Multi-Agent Dixit Gameplay

Yunxiang Mo, Tianshi Zheng, Qing Zong, Jiayu Liu, Baixuan Xu, Yauwai Yim, Chunkit Chan, Jiaxin Bai, Yangqiu Song

机构 * Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST, Hong Kong SAR, China（计算机科学与工程系，香港科技大学，香港特别行政区，中国） 纠错

Comments EMNLP 2025 Wordplay (Spotlight)

Toward Machine Translation Literacy: How Lay Users Perceive and Rely on Imperfect Translations

Yimin Xiao, Yongle Zhang, Dayeon Ki, Calvin Bao, Marianna J. Martindale, Charlotte Vaughn, Ge Gao, Marine Carpuat

Comments EMNLP 2025

CoBia: Constructed Conversations Can Trigger Otherwise Concealed Societal Biases in LLMs

Nafiseh Nikeghbal, Amir Hossein Kargaran, Jana Diesner

机构 * Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑技术大学） ； LMU Munich（慕尼黑大学） ； Munich Center for Machine Learning（慕尼黑机器学习中心） 纠错

Comments EMNLP 2025 (Oral)