From July 27 to August 1, 2025, dozens of Mila researchers will attend the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) in Vienna. This year, they will share 18 scientific papers at the main conference, showcasing their groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) research to peers from all around the world.
Here is a list of papers accepted at ACL 2025 that contain at least one Mila-affiliated author:
- Best Resource Paper Award
BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, Meriem Beloucif, Christine de Kock, Nirmal Surange, Daniela Teodorescu, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Alham Fikri Aji, Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Ilseyar Alimova, Vladimir Araujo, Nikolay Babakov, Naomi Baes, Ana-Maria Bucur, Andiswa Bukula, Guanqun Cao, Rodrigo Tufiño, Rendi Chevi, Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Alexandra Ciobotaru, Daryna Dementieva, Murja Sani Gadanya, Robert Geislinger, Bela Gipp, Oumaima Hourrane, Oana Ignat, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Rooweither Mabuya, Rahmad Mahendra, Vukosi Marivate, Alexander Panchenko, Andrew Piper, Charles Henrique Porto Ferreira, Vitaly Protasov, Samuel Rutunda, Manish Shrivastava, Aura Cristina Udrea, Lilian Diana Awuor Wanzare, Sophie Wu, Florian Valentin Wunderlich, Hanif Muhammad Zhafran, Tianhui Zhang, Yi Zhou, Saif M. Mohammad - Best Social Impact paper
AfriMed-QA: A Pan-African, Multi-Specialty, Medical Question-Answering, Bnchmark Data-Set, Charles Nimo, Tobi Olatunji, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Tassallah Abdullahi, Emmanuel Ayodele, Mardhiyah Sanni, Ezinwanne C. Aka, Folafunmi Omofoye, Foutse Yuehgoh, Timothy Faniran, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Moshood O. Yekini, Jonas Kemp, Katherine A Heller, Jude Chidubem Omeke, Chidi Asuzu MD, Naome A Etori, Aimérou Ndiaye, Ifeoma Okoh, Evans Doe Ocansey, Wendy Kinara, Michael Best, Irfan Essa, Stephen Edward Moore, Chris Fourie, Mercy Nyamewaa Asiedu - SAC Highlights
Geometric Signatures of Compositionality Across a Language Model’s Lifetime, Jin Hwa Lee, Thomas Jiralerspong, Lei Yu, Yoshua Bengio, Emily Cheng
- Warmup Generations: A Task-Agnostic Approach for Guiding Sequence-to-Sequence Learning with Unsupervised Initial State Generation, Senyu Li, Zipeng Sun, Jiayi Wang, Xue Liu, Pontus Stenetorp, Siva Reddy, David Ifeoluwa Adelani
- Hallucination Detox: Sensitivity Dropout (SenD) for Large Language Model Training, Shahrad Mohammadzadeh, Juan David Guerra, Marco Bonizzato, Reihaneh Rabbany, Golnoosh Farnadi
- (RSA)2: A Rhetorical-Strategy-Aware Rational Speech Act Framework for Figurative Language Understanding, Cesare Spinoso-Di Piano, David Eric Austin, Pablo Piantanida, Jackie CK Cheung
- Combining Domain and Alignment Vectors Provides Better Knowledge-Safety Trade-offs in LLMs, Megh Thakkar, Quentin Fournier, Matthew Riemer, Pin-Yu Chen, Amal Zouaq, Payel Das, Sarath Chandar
- Stochastic Chameleons: Irrelevant Context Hallucinations Reveal Class-Based (Mis)Generalization in LLMs, Ziling Cheng, Meng Cao, Marc-Antoine Rondeau, Jackie CK Cheung
- Understanding Language Model Scaling Laws in Terms of Training Dynamics via Loss Deceleration and Zero-Sum Learning, Andrei Mircea, Supriyo Chakraborty, Nima Chitsazan, Irina Rish, Ekaterina Lobacheva
- Scaling Laws and Efficient Inference for Ternary Language Models, Tejas Vaidhya, Ayush Kaushal, Vineet Jain, Francis Couture-Harpin, Prashant Shishodia, Majid Behbahani, Irina Rish, Yuriy Nevmyvaka
- A Modular Approach for Clinical SLMs Driven by Synthetic Data with Pre-Instruction Tuning, Model Merging, and Clinical-Tasks Alignment, Jean-Philippe Corbeil, Amin Dada, Jean-Michel Attendu, Asma Ben Abacha, Alessandro Sordoni, Lucas Caccia, Francois Beaulieu, Thomas Lin, Jens Kleesiek, Paul Vozila
- Global MMLU: Understanding and Addressing Cultural and Linguistic Biases in Multilingual Evaluation, Shivalika Singh, Angelika Romanou, Clémentine Fourrier, Jian Gang Ngui, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Daniel Vila-Suero, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Kelly Marchisio, Wei Qi Leong, Yosephine Susanto, Raymond Ng, Shayne Longpre, Sebastian Ruder, Wei-Yin Ko, Antoine Bosselut, Alice Oh, Andre Martins, Daphne Ippolito, Enzo Ferrante, Leshem Choshen, Marzieh Fadaee, Beyza Ermis, Sara Hooker
- INJONGO: A Multicultural Intent Detection and Slot-filling Dataset for 16 African Languages, Hao Yu, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Andiswa Bukula, Jian Yun Zhuang, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Israel Abebe Azime, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing Kudzaishe Sibanda, Godson Koffi KALIPE, Jonathan Mukiibi, Salomon KABONGO KABENAMUALU, Mmasibidi Setaka, Lolwethu Ndolela, Nkiruka Odu, Rooweither Mabuya, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomey Osei, Sokhar Samb, Dietrich Klakow, David Ifeoluwa Adelani
- Improving the Calibration of Confidence Scores in Text Generation Using the Output Distribution’s Characteristics, Lorenzo Jaime Yu Flores, Ori Ernst, Jackie CK Cheung
- APPL: A Prompt Programming Language for Harmonious Integration of Programs and Large Language Model Prompts, Honghua Dong, Qidong Su, Yubo Gao, Zhaoyu Li, Yangjun Ruan, Gennady Pekhimenko, Chris J. Maddison, Xujie Si
- Statistical Deficiency for Task Inclusion Estimation, Loïc Fosse, Frederic Bechet, Benoit Favre, Géraldine Damnati, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Maxime DARRIN, Philippe Formont, Pablo Piantanida
- Crowd Comparative Reasoning: Unlocking Comprehensive Evaluations for LLM-as-a-Judge, Qiyuan Zhang, Yufei Wang, Yuxin Jiang, Liangyou Li, Chuhan Wu, Yasheng Wang, Xin Jiang, Lifeng Shang, Ruiming Tang, Fuyuan Lyu, Chen Ma
- AIMSCheck: Leveraging LLMs for AI-Assisted Review of Modern Slavery Statements Across Jurisdictions, Adriana Eufrosina Bora, Akshatha Arodi, Duoyi Zhang, Jordan Bannister, Mirko Bronzi, Arsene Fansi Tchango, Md Abul Bashar, Richi Nayak, Kerrie Mengersen
- LongRecipe: Recipe for Efficient Long Context Generalization in Large Language Models, Zhiyuan Hu, Yuliang Liu, Jinman Zhao, Suyuchen Wang, WangYan, Wei Shen, Qing Gu, Anh Tuan Luu, See-Kiong Ng, Zhiwei Jiang, Bryan Hooi
