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MCML at ACL 2024

23 Accepted Papers (9 Main, 8 Findings, and 6 Workshops)

62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024

We are happy to announce that MCML researchers have contributed a total of 23 papers to ACL 2024: 9 Main, 8 Findings, and 6 Workshop papers. Congrats to our researchers!

Main Track (9 papers)

V. Blaschke • C. Purschke • H. SchützeB. Plank
What Do Dialect Speakers Want? A Survey of Attitudes Towards Language Technology for German Dialects.
ACL 2024 - 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

A. H. Kargaran • F. Yvon • H. Schütze
MaskLID: Code-Switching Language Identification through Iterative Masking.
ACL 2024 - 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI GitHub

Y. LiuC. MaH. YeH. Schütze
TransliCo: A Contrastive Learning Framework to Address the Script Barrier in Multilingual Pretrained Language Models.
ACL 2024 - 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

T. Liu • I. Škrjanec • V. Demberg
Temperature-scaling surprisal estimates improve fit to human reading times – but does it do so for the 'right reasons'?
ACL 2024 - 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

P. MondorfB. Plank
Comparing Inferential Strategies of Humans and Large Language Models in Deductive Reasoning.
ACL 2024 - 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

L. K. Senel • B. Fetahu • D. Yoshida • Z. Chen • G. Castellucci • N. Vedula • J. I. Choi • S. Malmasi
Generative Explore-Exploit: Training-free Optimization of Generative Recommender Systems using LLM Optimizers.
ACL 2024 - 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

C. Tomani • D. Vilar • M. Freitag • C. Cherry • S. Naskar • M. Finkelstein • X. Garcia • D. Cremers
Quality-Aware Translation Models: Efficient Generation and Quality Estimation in a Single Model.
ACL 2024 - 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

L. Weber-GenzelS. Peng • M.-C. De Marneffe • B. Plank
VariErr NLI: Separating Annotation Error from Human Label Variation.
ACL 2024 - 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

S. Xu • S. T.y.s.s • O. Ichim • B. Plank • M. Grabmair
Through the Lens of Split Vote: Exploring Disagreement, Difficulty and Calibration in Legal Case Outcome Classification.
ACL 2024 - 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

Findings Track (8 papers)

L. Christ • S. AmiriparianM. Milling • I. Aslan • B. W. Schuller
Modeling Emotional Trajectories in Written Stories Utilizing Transformers and Weakly-Supervised Learning.
Findings @ACL 2024 - Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

K. Hämmerl • J. Libovický • A. Fraser
Understanding Cross-Lingual Alignment—A Survey.
Findings @ACL 2024 - Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

W. Lai • M. Mesgar • A. Fraser
LLMs Beyond English: Scaling the Multilingual Capability of LLMs with Cross-Lingual Feedback.
Findings @ACL 2024 - Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

A. MaaroufD. Bär • D. Geißler • S. Feuerriegel
HQP: A human-annotated dataset for detecting online propaganda.
Findings @ACL 2024 - Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

X. WangB. Ma • C. Hu • L. Weber-Genzel • P. Röttger • F. Kreuter • D. Hovy • B. Plank
My Answer is C: First-Token Probabilities Do Not Match Text Answers in Instruction-Tuned Language Models.
Findings @ACL 2024 - Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

P. Wicke • L. Wachowiak
Exploring Spatial Schemas in Large Language Models.
Findings @ACL 2024 - Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI GitHub

S. Yuan • E. Nie • M. Färber • H. Schmid • H. Schütze
GNNAVI: Navigating the Information Flow in Large Language Models by Graph Neural Network.
Findings @ACL 2024 - Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

M. Zhang • V. Gautam • M. Wang • J. Alabi • X. Shen • D. Klakow • M. Mosbach
The Impact of Demonstrations on Multilingual In-Context Learning: A Multidimensional Analysis.
Findings @ACL 2024 - Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

Workshops (6 papers)

M. Aßenmacher • A. Stephan • L. Weissweiler • E. Çano • I. Ziegler • M. Härttrich • B. Bischl • B. Roth • C. Heumann • H. Schütze
Collaborative Development of Modular Open Source Educational Resources for Natural Language Processing.
TeachingNLP @ACL 2024 - 6th Workshop on Teaching NLP at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. URL

A. Dimmelmeier • H. Doll • M. Schierholz • E. Kormanyos • M. Fehr • B. MaJ. BeckA. FraserF. Kreuter
Informing climate risk analysis using textual information - A research agenda.
ClimateNLP @ACL 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

B. Ma
Evaluating Lexical Aspect with Large Language Models.
CMCL @ACL 2024 - Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

J. Pavlopoulos • V. Kougia • E. Garces Arias • P. Platanou • S. Shabalin • K. Liagkou • E. Papadatos • H. Essler • J.-B. Camps • F. Fischer
Challenging Error Correction in Recognised Byzantine Greek.
ML4AL @ACL 2024 - 1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

A. Yüksel • A. KöksalL. K. Senel • A. Korhonen • H. Schütze
TurkishMMLU: Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Turkish.
SIGTURK @ACL 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. Invited talk. arXiv GitHub

S. ZhouS. PengB. Plank
CLIMATELI: Evaluating Entity Linking on Climate Change Data.
ClimateNLP @ACL 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI

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