ACL

Defining and Evaluating Visual Language Models' Basic Spatial Abilities: A Perspective from Psychometrics

Wenrui Xu, Dalin Lyu, Weihang Wang, Jie Feng, Chen Gao, Yong Li

机构 * School of Architecture, Tsinghua University（清华大学建筑学院） ； Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University（清华大学电子工程系） ； BNRist, Tsinghua University（清华大学BNRist） 纠错

Journal ref Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Volume 1: Long Papers (2025) 11571-11590

BrainECHO: Semantic Brain Signal Decoding through Vector-Quantized Spectrogram Reconstruction for Whisper-Enhanced Text Generation

Jilong Li, Zhenxi Song, Jiaqi Wang, Meishan Zhang, Honghai Liu, Min Zhang, Zhiguo Zhang

机构 * Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China（哈尔滨工业大学（深圳）） ； Peng Cheng Laboratory, China（鹏城实验室） 纠错

Comments 8 pages (excluding references), accepted by Findings of ACL 2025

Journal ref Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, pages 2762-2778, July 2025, Vienna, Austria

GenKnowSub: Improving Modularity and Reusability of LLMs through General Knowledge Subtraction

Mohammadtaha Bagherifard, Sahar Rajabi, Ali Edalat, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh

机构 * School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran（伊朗德黑兰大学电气与计算机工程学院） ； Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies, Khatam University, Tehran, Iran（德黑兰高级研究学院） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 (main conference, short paper), 10 pages

Dynamic Order Template Prediction for Generative Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Yonghyun Jun, Hwanhee Lee

机构 * Department of Artificial Intelligence, Chung-Ang University（人工智能系， Chung-Ang 大学） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Main

Observing Dialogue in Therapy: Categorizing and Forecasting Behavioral Codes

Jie Cao, Michael Tanana, Zac E. Imel, Eric Poitras, David C. Atkins, Vivek Srikumar

Comments Accepted to ACL 2019

TripTailor: A Real-World Benchmark for Personalized Travel Planning

Yuanzhe Shen, Kaimin Wang, Changze Lv, Xiaoqing Zheng, Xuanjing Huang

机构 * School of Computer Science, Fudan University（复旦大学计算机科学学院） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 Findings

CSIRO-LT at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Adapting LLMs for Emotion Recognition for Multiple Languages

Jiyu Chen, Necva Bölücü, Sarvnaz Karimi, Diego Mollá, Cécile L. Paris

机构 * CSIRO Data61（CSIRO数据61研究所） ； Macquarie University（麦考瑞大学） 纠错

Comments In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics

Ref-Long: Benchmarking the Long-context Referencing Capability of Long-context Language Models

Junjie Wu, Gefei Gu, Yanan Zheng, Dit-Yan Yeung, Arman Cohan

机构 * Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港理工大学） ； Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学） ； Yale University（耶鲁大学） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 Main Conference. First 2 authors contributed equally. Project webpage: https://wujunjie1998.github.io/Ref-Long-website/

ChartEdit: How Far Are MLLMs From Automating Chart Analysis? Evaluating MLLMs' Capability via Chart Editing

Xuanle Zhao, Xuexin Liu, Haoyue Yang, Xianzhen Luo, Fanhu Zeng, Jianling Li, Qi Shi, Chi Chen

机构 * Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所） ； Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学） ； Tianjin University（天津大学） ； Tsinghua University（清华大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted by ACL2025 Findings, camera-ready version

CodeIF: Benchmarking the Instruction-Following Capabilities of Large Language Models for Code Generation

Kaiwen Yan, Hongcheng Guo, Xuanqing Shi, Shaosheng Cao, Donglin Di, Zhoujun Li

机构 * Beihang University（北航大学） ； Tsinghua University（清华大学） ； Xiaohongshu（小红书） 纠错

Comments Accepted as an ACL 2025 Industry Track paper (15 pages)

Rethinking Table Instruction Tuning

Naihao Deng, Rada Mihalcea

机构 * University of Michigan（密歇根大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 Findings. Updates: 07/2025: We release the TAMA-QWen2.5 and TAMA-QWen3 models. 06/2025: We release our project page: https://lit.eecs.umich.edu/TAMA/, code: https://github.com/MichiganNLP/TAMA, huggingface models: https://huggingface.co/collections/MichiganNLP/tama-684eeb3e7f262362856eccd1, and data: https://huggingface.co/datasets/MichiganNLP/TAMA_Instruct

Tree-of-Code: A Tree-Structured Exploring Framework for End-to-End Code Generation and Execution in Complex Task Handling

Ziyi Ni, Yifan Li, Ning Yang, Dou Shen, Pin Lv, Daxiang Dong

机构 * The Key Laboratory of Cognition and Decision Intelligence for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（认知与决策智能复杂系统重点实验室，自动化研究所，中国科学院） ； School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Science（人工智能学院，中国科学院大学） ； Baidu, Inc.（百度公司） ； Global Innovation Exchange Institution, Tsinghua University（全球创新交换机构，清华大学） 纠错

Comments This idea was first submitted to the NeuralPS Workshop "System 2 Reasoning At Scale" in September 2024. Its OpenReview: https://openreview.net/forum?id=8NKAL8Ngxk&noteId=8NKAL8Ngxk. It was then submitted to the NAACL 2025 in October 2024, which is recorded in: https://openreview.net/forum?id=S0ZUWD3Vy5&noteId=S0ZUWD3Vy5. Now this paper has been accepted for publication in ACL 2025 Findings

Libra: Leveraging Temporal Images for Biomedical Radiology Analysis

Xi Zhang, Zaiqiao Meng, Jake Lever, Edmond S. L. Ho

机构 * Information Retrieval Group（信息检索组） ； AI4BioMed Lab（AI4BioMed实验室） ； School of Computing Science（计算科学学院） ； University of Glasgow（格拉斯哥大学） 纠错

Comments 30 pages, 5 figures, Adding Appendix

Journal ref Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025

CheXalign: Preference fine-tuning in chest X-ray interpretation models without human feedback

Dennis Hein, Zhihong Chen, Sophie Ostmeier, Justin Xu, Maya Varma, Eduardo Pontes Reis, Arne Edward Michalson, Christian Bluethgen, Hyun Joo Shin, Curtis Langlotz, Akshay S Chaudhari

机构 * Stanford University（斯坦福大学） ； University of Oxford（牛津大学） ； University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich（苏黎世大学医院、苏黎世大学） ； Yongin Severance Hospital, Yonsei University（永临松医院、延世大学） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025

Learning from Negative Samples in Biomedical Generative Entity Linking

Chanhwi Kim, Hyunjae Kim, Sihyeon Park, Jiwoo Lee, Mujeen Sung, Jaewoo Kang

机构 * Korea University（韩国大学） ； Kyung Hee University（庆熙大学） ； AIGEN Sciences（AIGEN公司） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 (Findings)

Semantic Compression for Word and Sentence Embeddings using Discrete Wavelet Transform

Rana Aref Salama, Abdou Youssef, Mona Diab

机构 * School of Engineering and Applied Science, George Washington University（工程与应用科学学院，乔治华盛顿大学） ； Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University（计算机与人工智能学院，开罗大学） ； Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University（语言技术研究所，卡内基梅隆大学） 纠错

Journal ref https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.945/

Debunking with Dialogue? Exploring AI-Generated Counterspeech to Challenge Conspiracy Theories

Mareike Lisker, Christina Gottschalk, Helena Mihaljević

机构 * University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Berlin, Germany（柏林应用科学大学（HTW）） 纠错

Comments 16 pages, Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2025)

Linguistic Generalizability of Test-Time Scaling in Mathematical Reasoning

Guijin Son, Jiwoo Hong, Hyunwoo Ko, James Thorne

机构 * Yonsei University（延世大学） ； OneLineAI ； KAIST AI（韩国科学技术院人工智能实验室） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 (ORAL)

Better Embeddings with Coupled Adam

Felix Stollenwerk, Tobias Stollenwerk

机构 * AI Sweden（AI瑞典） ； Forschungszentrum Jülich（耶鲁-维尔特夫特研究中心） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 (Main), see https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.1321/

Embracing Large Language Models in Traffic Flow Forecasting

Yusheng Zhao, Xiao Luo, Haomin Wen, Zhiping Xiao, Wei Ju, Ming Zhang

机构 * State Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, PKU-Anker LLM Lab, Peking University（信息处理国家重点实验室、计算机学院、PKU-Anker LLM实验室、北京大学） ； Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles（计算机科学系、加州大学洛杉矶分校） ； Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学） ； Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington（保罗·G·阿伦计算机科学与工程学院、华盛顿大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted by ACL 2025

BERTtime Stories: Investigating the Role of Synthetic Story Data in Language Pre-training

Nikitas Theodoropoulos, Giorgos Filandrianos, Vassilis Lyberatos, Maria Lymperaiou, Giorgos Stamou

机构 * First Author Affiliation（第一作者单位） ； Second Author Affiliation（第二作者单位） 纠错

Journal ref The 2nd BabyLM Challenge at the 28th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 308-323, Miami, FL, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

Enhancing adversarial robustness in Natural Language Inference using explanations

Alexandros Koulakos, Maria Lymperaiou, Giorgos Filandrianos, Giorgos Stamou

机构 * Artificial Intelligence and Learning Systems Laboratory（人工智能与学习系统实验室） ； School of Electrical and Computer Engineering（电气与计算机工程学院） ； National Technical University of Athens（雅典技术大学） 纠错

Journal ref Proceedings of the 7th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, pages 105-117, Miami, Florida, US. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

Optimal and efficient text counterfactuals using Graph Neural Networks

Dimitris Lymperopoulos, Maria Lymperaiou, Giorgos Filandrianos, Giorgos Stamou

机构 * Artificial Intelligence and Learning Systems Laboratory（人工智能与学习系统实验室） ； School of Electrical and Computer Engineering（电气与计算机工程学院） ； National Technical University of Athens（雅典技术大学） 纠错

Journal ref Proceedings of the 7th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, pages 1-14, Miami, Florida, US. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

Puzzle Solving using Reasoning of Large Language Models: A Survey

Panagiotis Giadikiaroglou, Maria Lymperaiou, Giorgos Filandrianos, Giorgos Stamou

机构 * Artificial Intelligence and Learning Systems Laboratory（人工智能与学习系统实验室） ； School of Electrical and Computer Engineering（电气与计算机工程学院） ； National Technical University of Athens（希腊雅典国家技术大学） 纠错

Journal ref Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 11574-11591, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

Semantic Convergence: Investigating Shared Representations Across Scaled LLMs

Daniel Son, Sanjana Rathore, Andrew Rufail, Adrian Simon, Daniel Zhang, Soham Dave, Cole Blondin, Kevin Zhu, Sean O'Brien

Comments Submitted to ACL 2025 Student Research Workshop (poster)

Theorem-of-Thought: A Multi-Agent Framework for Abductive, Deductive, and Inductive Reasoning in Language Models

Samir Abdaljalil, Hasan Kurban, Khalid Qaraqe, Erchin Serpedin

机构 * Texas A&M University（德克萨斯大学） ； Hamad Bin Khalifa University（哈马德·本·卡伊夫大学） 纠错

Comments ACL 2025 KnowFM

EducationQ: Evaluating LLMs' Teaching Capabilities Through Multi-Agent Dialogue Framework

Yao Shi, Rongkeng Liang, Yong Xu

机构 * South China University of Technology（华南理工大学） ； Education Innovation Research Institute of Guangdong（广东教育创新研究院） 纠错

Comments Paper URL: https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.1576 ;Presentation Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j63ooKE50I0

Journal ref Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (2025) 32799-32828

MiniLongBench: The Low-cost Long Context Understanding Benchmark for Large Language Models

Zhongzhan Huang, Guoming Ling, Shanshan Zhong, Hefeng Wu, Liang Lin

机构 * Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学） ； Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室） ； Guangdong Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Processing（广东省大数据分析与处理重点实验室） 纠错

Comments Accepted by ACL'25 main track

Past Meets Present: Creating Historical Analogy with Large Language Models

Nianqi Li, Siyu Yuan, Jiangjie Chen, Jiaqing Liang, Feng Wei, Zujie Liang, Deqing Yang, Yanghua Xiao

Comments Accepted to ACL 2025 (Outstanding Paper Award)

Towards the Law of Capacity Gap in Distilling Language Models

Chen Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Dawei Song, Zheyu Ye, Yan Gao, Yan Hu

机构 * Beijing Institute of Technology（北京理工大学） ； University of Copenhagen（哥本哈根大学） ； The Open University（开放大学） ； Xiaohongshu（小红书） 纠错

Comments 32 pages, 10 figures, 15 tables, accepted to ACL 2025. Code and checkpoints are available at https://github.com/GeneZC/MiniMA