Schedule

Saturday, November 8th

Time	Event	Details
9:15 - 10:30	Session 1: Opening Remarks and Invited Talk 1	Opening Remarks Invited talk 1: Yue Zhang (Westlake)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00	Session 2: Oral Session 1	AmbiStory: A Challenging Dataset of Lexically Ambiguous Short Stories MoMentS: A Comprehensive Multimodal Benchmark for Theory of Mind DisCoCLIP: A Distributional Compositional Tensor Network Encoder for Vision-Language Understanding Generalizability of Media Frames: Corpus creation and analysis across countries
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	Session 3: Invited Talk 2 + Oral session 2	Invited talk 2: Thamar Solorio (MBZUAI) Knowledge Editing Induces Underconfidence in Language Models Modeling Language Learning in Corrective Feedback Interactions
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30	Session 4: In-person Poster Session 1	All Entities are Not Created Equal: Examining the Long Tail for Ultra-Fine Entity Typing Bridging Information Gaps with Comprehensive Answers: Improving the Diversity and Informativeness of Follow-Up Questions ChengyuSTS: An Intrinsic Perspective on Mandarin Idiom Representation Connecting Concept Layers and Rationales to Enhance Language Model Interpretability Cross-Domain Persuasion Detection with Argumentative Features Enhancing Readability-Controlled Text Modification with Readability Assessment and Target Span Prediction From Complex Word Identification to Substitution: Instruction-Tuned Language Models for Lexical Simplification Knowledge Editing Induces Underconfidence in Language Models Towards Evaluation of Language Models with Skill Dimensions: A Case Study on Narrative Question Answering AmbiStory: A Challenging Dataset of Lexically Ambiguous Short Stories Generalizability of Media Frames: Corpus creation and analysis across countries When Does Meaning Backfire? Investigating the Role of Abstract Meaning Representations in Natural Language Inference

Sunday, November 9th

Time	Event	Details
09:00 - 10:30	Session 5: Virtual Poster Session	AdvERSEM: Adversarial Robustness Testing and Training of LLM-based Groundedness Evaluators via Semantic Structure Manipulation Evaluating Textual and Visual Semantic Neighborhoods of Abstract and Concrete Concepts Explanations explained. Influence of Free-text Explanations on LLMs and the Role of Implicit Knowledge How Do Large Language Models Evaluate Lexical Complexity? HSGM: Hierarchical Segment-Graph Memory for Scalable Long-Text Semantics If We May De-Presuppose: Robustly Verifying Claims through Presupposition-Free Question Decomposition Injecting Frame Semantics into Large Language Models via Prompt-Based Fine-Tuning Latent Traits and Cross-Task Transfer: Deconstructing Dataset Interactions in LLM Fine-tuning LLMs as annotators of argumentation SAG: Enhancing Domain-Specific Information Retrieval with Semantic-Augmented Graphs Semantic Differentiation in Speech Emotion Recognition: Insights from Descriptive and Expressive Speech Roles TAG–EQA: Text–And–Graph for Event Question Answering via Structured Prompting Strategies Relation-Aware Prompting Makes Large Language Models Effective Zero-shot Relation Extractors Cross-Lingual Extractive Question Answering with Unanswerable Questions Evaluating Compositional Generalisation in VLMs and Diffusion Models
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Session 6: Invited Talk + Oral Session 3	Invited talk 3: Yuki Arase (Institute of Science Tokyo) On the Distinctive Co-occurrence Characteristics of Antonymy Soteria: Language-Specific Functional Parameter Steering for Multilingual Safety Alignment
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	Session 7: In-person Poster Session 2	Hallucinated Span Detection with Multi-View Attention Features Math Natural Language Inference: this should be easy! Potentially Problematic Word Usages and How to Detect Them: A Survey Semantic Prosody in Machine Translation: the English-Chinese Case of Passive Structures WiC Evaluation in Galician and Spanish: Effects of Dataset Quality and Composition Attributes as Textual Genes: Leveraging LLMs as Genetic Algorithm Simulators for Conditional Synthetic Data Generation Bhaasha, Bhasa, Zaban: A Survey for Low-Resourced Languages in South Asia – Current Stage and Challenges On the Distinctive Co-occurrence Characteristics of Antonymy SCDTour: Embedding Axis Ordering and Merging for Interpretable Semantic Change Detection
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:15	Session 8: Oral Session 4 + Closing	Towards Evaluation of Language Models with Skill Dimensions: A Case Study on Narrative Question Answering CAPE: Context-Aware Personality Evaluation Framework for Large Language Models CaMMT: Benchmarking Culturally Aware Multimodal Machine Translation
		Closing Remarks (incl. Best Paper Awards)