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📚Tom Sherborne: Modeling Cross-lingual Transfer for Semantic Parsing

Sherborne’s dissertation develops sophisticated methods for cross-lingual transfer into low-resource languages, demonstrating their effectiveness in the context of semantic parsing for integration with database APIs.

📚Ashish Sharma: Human-AI Collaboration to Support Mental Health and Well-Being

Sharma’s dissertation pushes the boundaries of human-AI collaboration along with research in empathy detection and generation, advancing the application of NLP to mental health

📚 Manling Li: Event-Centric Multimodal Knowledge Acquisition

Li’s dissertation offers a comprehensive framework for multimodal event extraction and reasoning, advancing important tasks such as video question answering and future event prediction

10. Socially Aware Language Technologies: Perspectives and Practices
(Last Words)
By: Diyi Yang, Dirk Hovy, David Jurgens, Barbara Plank

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9. LLM-based NLG Evaluation: Current Status and Challenges
(Survey)
By: Mingqi Gao, Xinyu Hu, Xunjian Yin, Jie Ruan, Xiao Pu, Xiaojun Wan

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8. Language Models and Externalism: A Reply to Mandelkern and Linzen
(Squib)
By: Gary Ostertag

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7. Kallini et al. (2024) Do Not Compare Impossible Languages with Constituency-based Ones
(Squib)
By: Tim Hunter

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6. LMLPA: Language Model Linguistic Personality Assessment
(Regular Article)
By: Jingyao Zheng, Xian Wang, Simo Hosio, Xiaoxian Xu, Lik-Hang Lee

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5. Dotless Arabic Text for Natural Language Processing
(Regular Article)
By: Maged S. Al-Shaibani, Irfan Ahmad

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4. Investigating Idiomaticity in Word Representations
(Regular Article)
By: Wei He, Tiago Kramer Vieira, Marcos Garcia, Carolina Scarton, Marco Idiart, Aline Villavicencio

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3. Eliciting and Improving the Causal Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models with Conditional Statements
(Regular Article)
By: Xiao Liu, Da Yin, Chen Zhang, Dongyan Zhao, Yansong Feng

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2. Train and Constrain: Phonologically Informed Tongue Twister Generation from Topics and Paraphrases Open Access
(Regular Article)
By: Tyler Loakman, Chen Tang, Chenghua Lin

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1. DiBiMT: A Gold Evaluation Benchmark for Studying Lexical Ambiguity in Machine Translation
(Regular Article)
By: Federico Martelli, Stefano Perrella, Niccolò Campolungo, Tina Munda, Svetla Koeva, Carole Tiberius, Roberto Navigli

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