25.07.2025
MCML at ACL 2025
40 Accepted Papers (17 Main, 8 Findings, and 15 Workshops)
63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025
We are happy to announce that MCML researchers have contributed a total of 40 papers to ACL 2025: 17 Main, 8 Findings, and 15 Workshop papers. Congrats to our researchers!
Main Track (17 papers)
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI GitHub
LangSAMP: Language-Script Aware Multilingual Pretraining.
ACL 2025 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. DOI GitHub
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI GitHub
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
Findings Track (8 papers)
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI GitHub
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. DOI
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. DOI
Workshops (15 papers)
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
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. DOI
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. DOI
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
Can Prompting LLMs Unlock Hate Speech Detection across Languages? A Zero-shot and Few-shot Study.
WOAH @ACL 2025 - 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. URL
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
From Calculation to Adjudication: Examining LLM Judges on Mathematical Reasoning Tasks.
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
Better Aligned with Survey Respondents or Training Data? Unveiling Political Leanings of LLMs on U.S. Supreme Court Cases.
L2M2 @ACL 2025 - 1st Workshop on Large Language Model Memorization at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, Jul 27-Aug 01, 2025. DOI
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