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One paper by Qianli Wang and Nils Feldhus has been accepted to the Findings Track at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025 (ACL 2025). In the paper, they introduce ZeroCF, a faithful approach for leveraging important words derived from feature attribution methods to generate counterfactual examples in a zero-shot setting.

One paper originating from research in the TRAILS project has been accepted to the 10th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP 2025), co-located with NAACL 2025. In the paper, we reimagine classical probing to evaluate knowledge transfer from simple source to more complex target tasks.

One paper originating from research in the TRAILS project has been accepted to the Main Track at the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics 2025 (COLING 2025). In the paper, we present CROSS-REFINE, a generator-critic framework that enhances natural language explanations by refining initial outputs using feedback from a second LLM, outperforming SELF-REFINE and working effectively even with less powerful models.

One paper from researchers in the DFKI-NLP group has been accepted as a Findings paper at the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024). EMNLP will take place November 12-16 in Miami, Florida.

Two papers from DFKI NLP researchers have been accepted at the 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2024) that will take place September 23-27 in Tokyo, Japan. One paper presents a case study on using large language models to produce customer-friendly help page contents from more technical text, and includes a text quality evaluation by experienced editors.

DFKI will have a strong presence at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), one of the top venues of language technology, that will take place August 11-16 in Bangkok, Thailand.

One paper by researchers from the Speech and Language Technology department of DFKI will be presented at the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with NAACL 2024: Bhuvanesh Verma, Lisa Raithel (2024).

DFKI had a strong presence at the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), one of the top venues of language technology, that took place on December 6-10 in Singapore.

One paper from DFKI-NLP researchers has been accepted for publication at KONVENS 2023, the 19th German Conference on Natural Language Processing. The conference will take place in Ingolstadt, Germany, from Sep 18th to Sep 22nd, 2023.

Five papers from DFKI-NLP researchers have been accepted for publication at ACL 2023, the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. The conference is planned to be a hybrid meeting and will take place in Toronto, Canada, from Jul 9th through July 14th, 2023.