25.07.2025

MCML at ACL 2025

37 Accepted Papers (17 Main, 8 Findings, and 12 Workshops)

We are happy to announce that MCML researchers have contributed a total of 37 papers to ACL 2025: 17 Main, 8 Findings, and 12 Workshop papers. Congrats to our researchers!

Main Track (17 papers)

A. Bavaresco • R. Bernardi • L. Bertolazzi • D. Elliott • R. Fernández • A. Gatt • E. Ghaleb • M. Giulianelli • M. Hanna • A. Koller • A. F. T. Martins • P. Mondorf • V. Neplenbroek • S. Pezzelle • B. Plank • D. Schlangen • A. Suglia • A. K. Surikuchi • E. Takmaz • A. Testoni
LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

J. Bi • Y. Wang • H. Chen • X. Xiao • A. Hecker • V. Tresp • Y. Ma
LLaVA Steering: Visual Instruction Tuning with 500x Fewer Parameters through Modality Linear Representation-Steering.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

F. Eichin • Y. J. Liu • B. Plank • M. A. Hedderich
Probing LLMs for Multilingual Discourse Generalization Through a Unified Label Set.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

F. Friedrich • K. Hämmerl • P. Schramowski • M. Brack • J. Libovicky • K. Kersting • A. Fraser
Multilingual Text-to-Image Generation Magnifies Gender Stereotypes and Prompt Engineering May Not Help You.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

M. Fayyaz • A. Modarressi • H. Schütze • N. Peng
Collapse of Dense Retrievers: Short, Early, and Literal Biases Outranking Factual Evidence.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

M. A. Hedderich • A. Wang • R. Zhao • F. Eichin • J. Fischer • B. Plank
What's the Difference? Supporting Users in Identifying the Effects of Prompt and Model Changes Through Token Patterns.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

L. Kinder • L. Edman • A. Fraser • T. Käfer
Positional Overload: Positional Debiasing and Context Window Extension for Large Language Models using Set Encoding.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

T. Liu • Z. Lai • J. Wang • G. Zhang • S. Chen • P. Torr • V. Demberg • V. Tresp • J. Gu
Multimodal Pragmatic Jailbreak on Text-to-image Models.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL GitHub

Y. Liu • H. Ye • C. Ma • M. Wang • H. Schütze
LangSAMP: Language-Script Aware Multilingual Pretraining.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL GitHub

T. Liu • X. Yu • W. Zhou • J. Gu • V. Tresp
FocalPO: Enhancing Preference Optimizing by Focusing on Correct Preference Rankings.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

B. Ma • Y. Li • W. Zhou • Z. Gong • Y. J. Liu • K. Jasinskaja • A. Friedrich • J. Hirschberg • F. Kreuter • B. Plank
Pragmatics in the Era of Large Language Models: A Survey on Datasets, Evaluation, Opportunities and Challenges.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

P. Mondorf • S. Wold • B. Plank
Circuit Compositions: Exploring Modular Structures in Transformer-Based Language Models.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

B. Ma • B. Yoztyurk • A.-C. Haensch • X. Wang • M. Herklotz • F. Kreuter • B. Plank • M. Aßenmacher
Algorithmic Fidelity of Large Language Models in Generating Synthetic German Public Opinions: A Case Study.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

E. Nie • B. Shao • Z. Ding • M. Wang • H. Schmid • H. Schütze
BMIKE-53: Investigating Cross-Lingual Knowledge Editing with In-Context Learning.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL GitHub

S. Okabe • K. Hämmerl • A. Fraser
Improving Parallel Sentence Mining for Low-Resource and Endangered Languages.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

R. Pei • Y. Liu • P. Lin • F. Yvon • H. Schütze
Understanding In-Context Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages: A Case Study on Manchu.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

M. Wang • H. Adel • L. Lange • Y. Liu • E. Nie • J. Strötgen • H. Schütze
Lost in Multilinguality: Dissecting Cross-lingual Factual Inconsistency in Transformer Language Models.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

Findings Track (8 papers)

V. Blaschke • M. Fedzechkina • M. Ter Hoeve
Analyzing the Effect of Linguistic Similarity on Cross-Lingual Transfer: Tasks and Experimental Setups Matter.
Findings @ACL 2025 - Findings at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

B. Chen • S. Peng • A. Korhonen • B. Plank
A Rose by Any Other Name: LLM-Generated Explanations Are Good Proxies for Human Explanations to Collect Label Distributions on NLI.
Findings @ACL 2025 - Findings at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

L. Edman • H. Schmid • A. Fraser
EXECUTE: A Multilingual Benchmark for LLM Token Understanding.
Findings @ACL 2025 - Findings at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

A. D. Hakimi • A. Modarressi • P. Wicke • H. Schütze
Time Course MechInterp: Analyzing the Evolution of Components and Knowledge in Large Language Models.
Findings @ACL 2025 - Findings at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

L. He • E. Nie • H. Schmid • H. Schütze • N. Mesgarani • J. Brennan
Large Language Models as Neurolinguistic Subjects: Discrepancy between Performance and Competence.
Findings @ACL 2025 - Findings at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

A. H. Kargaran • Y. Liu • F. Yvon • H. Schütze
How Programming Concepts and Neurons Are Shared in Code Language Models.
Findings @ACL 2025 - Findings at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL GitHub

A. H. Kargaran • A. Modarressi • N. Nikeghbal • J. Diesner • F. Yvon • H. Schütze
MEXA: Multilingual Evaluation of English-Centric LLMs via Cross-Lingual Alignment.
Findings @ACL 2025 - Findings at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

S. Urchs • V. Thurner • M. Aßenmacher • C. Heumann • S. Thiemichen
taz2024full: Analysing German Newspapers for Gender Bias and Discrimination across Decades.
Findings @ACL 2025 - Findings at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

Workshops (12 papers)

H. Asadpour • S. Okabe • A. Fraser
A Practical Tool to Help Automate Interlinear Glossing: a Study on Mukrī Kurdish.
Field Matters @ACL 2025 - 4th Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

I. Bueno • A. Bavaresco • J. M. Cunha • P. Wicke
Testing Spatial Intuitions of Humans and Large Language and Multimodal Models in Analogies.
Analogy-Angle II @ACL 2025 - 2nd Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

Q. Feng • Y. Liu • H. Schütze
Your Pretrained Model Tells the Difficulty Itself: A Self-Adaptive Curriculum Learning Paradigm for Natural Language Understanding.
SRW @ACL 2025 - Student Research Workshop at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

E. Garces Arias • H. Blocher • J. Rodemann • M. Li • C. Heumann • M. Aßenmacher
Towards Better Open-Ended Text Generation: A Multicriteria Evaluation Framework.
GEM2 @ACL 2025 - 4th Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

L. He • E. Nie • S. S. Dindar • A. Firoozi • A. Florea • V. Nguyen • C. Puffay • R. Shimizu • H. Ye • J. Brennan • H. Schmid • H. Schütze • N. Mesgarani
XCOMPS: A Multilingual Benchmark of Conceptual Minimal Pairs.
SIGTYP @ACL 2025 - 7th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

L. Hagström • E. Nie • R. Halifa • H. Schmid • R. Johansson • A. Junge
Language Model Re-rankers are Fooled by Lexical Similarities.
FEVER @ACL 2025 - 8th Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

M. Koshil • M. Feurer • K. Eggensperger
In-Context Learning of Soft Nearest Neighbor Classifiers for Intelligible Tabular Machine Learning.
TRL @ACL 2025 - 4th Table Representation Learning Workshop at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

O. Kononykhina • A.-C. Haensch • F. Kreuter
Mind the Gap: Gender-based Differences in Occupational Embeddings.
GeBNLP @ACL 2025 - 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

T. Lindenbauer • G. Groh • H. Schütze
From Knowledge to Noise: CTIM-Rover and the Pitfalls of Episodic Memory in Software Engineering Agents.
REALM @ACL 2025 - 1st Workshop for Research on Agent Language Models at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

P. Lin • M. Thaler • D. Goschala • A. H. Kargaran • Y. Liu • A. Martins • H. Schütze
Construction-Based Reduction of Translationese for Low-Resource Languages: A Pilot Study on Bavarian.
SIGTYP @ACL 2025 - 7th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL GitHub

E. Özeren • Y. Liu • H. Schütze
HYPEROFA: Expanding LLM Vocabulary to New Languages via Hypernetwork-Based Embedding Initialization.
SRW @ACL 2025 - Student Research Workshop at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL

A. Säuberli • D. Frassinelli • B. Plank
Do LLMs Give Psychometrically Plausible Responses in Educational Assessments?
BEA @ACL 2025 - 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL