Nov 9, CODI-CRAC Workshop, 14:20-15:30 @ Hall C – Human and LLM-based Assessment of Teaching Acts in Expert-led Explanatory Dialogues (Anagnostopoulou et al.)

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Nov 9, @blackboxnlp.bsky.social , 11:00-12:00 @ Hall C – Interpreting Language Models Through Concept Descriptions: A Survey (Feldhus & Kopf) @lkopf.bsky.social

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🙏 Many thanks to the institutions that supported this research:
@tuberlin.bsky.social
@bifold.berlin

Looking forward to presenting this in 🇨🇳 Suzhou early November!

Our synthesis reveals a growing demand for more rigorous, causal evaluation. By outlining the state of the art and identifying key challenges, this survey provides a roadmap for future research toward making models more transparent.

This survey has been accepted at @blackboxnlp.bsky.social at EMNLP

We consider concept descriptions in open-vocabulary settings, the evolving landscape of automated and human metrics for evaluating them, and the datasets that underpin this research.

This is a companion paper to our PRISM paper that was accepted at NeurIPS last week: bsky.app/profile/lkop...

We welcome position papers on ongoing research in Natural Language Generation.

Let’s build a vibrant, collaborative community of the next generation of NLG researchers!

Stoked to organize it together with @patuchen.bsky.social, Adarsa, Rudali, Michela, and Alyssa! 🤩

📍 Venue: Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam — during INLG 2025.

💡 If you'll be in the region for INLG or EMNLP 2025, this is a great opportunity to connect and share your work!

📅 Submission deadline: August 26, 2025

YNLG aims to foster a welcoming community of early-career researchers in NLG. This is your chance to:
📌 Present your work-in-progress research
📌 Receive constructive feedback from senior researchers and peers
📌 Discuss current trends and future directions in NLG

We introduce the TableEval benchmark and investigate the effectiveness and robustness of text-based and multimodal LLMs on table understanding through a cross-domain & cross-modality evaluation.

Joint work by DFKI SLT incl. Fabio Barth, Raia Abu Ahmad, @malteos.bsky.social @pjox.bsky.social

Ekaterina Borisova et al.:
"Table Understanding and (Multimodal) LLMs: A Cross-Domain Case Study on Scientific vs. Non-Scientific Data"
📄 ACL Anthology: aclanthology.org/2025.trl-1.10/
📊 July 31, TRL Workshop @ Room 2.15
Oral presentation: 09:40-09:55 (pres. by Ekaterina)
Poster session: 16:35-17:15

Our contribution to the FEVER shared task: Our EFC framework stays competitive against this year's baseline while significantly reducing the average runtime per claim achieved through semantic filtering strategies for veracity prediction.

Joint work by the XplaiNLP group incl. @jingyng.bsky.social

Max Upravitelev et al.:
"Exploring Semantic Filtering Heuristics For Efficient Claim Verification"
📄 ACL Anthology: aclanthology.org/2025.fever-1...
🤒 FEVER Workshop, July 31 @ Room 2.31
Oral presentation: 10:10-10:30 (presented by Max)

We investigate how rationale generation is affected by readability level control, and find that explanations are adaptable, but the observed distinction between readability levels does not fully match the desired complexity.

Joint work with @hakimov.bsky.social.

Yi-Sheng Hsu et al.:
"Free-text Rationale Generation under Readability Level Control"
📄 arXiv (Camera-ready): arxiv.org/abs/2407.01384
💎 GEM^2 Workshop July 31 @ Hall C
Poster session: 11:30-12:30 and 14:00-15:00 (presented by myself)

Using saliency scores, label flip verification and few-shot prompting, our FitCF method outperforms three state-of-the-art baselines on counterfactual example generation.

Joint work with @simost.bsky.social, Luis Felipe Villa-Arenas, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt.

Code: github.com/qiaw99/FitCF

Qianli Wang ( @qiaw99.bsky.social ) et al.:
"FitCF: A Framework for Automatic Feature Importance-guided Counterfactual Example Generation"
📄 ACL Anthology: aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
🏟️ ACL Findings, July 28 @ Hall 4/5
Poster presentation: 18:00-19:30 (pres. by Qianli and myself)