Accepted Submissions

Spotlights

• Why We Build Local Large Language Models: An Observational Analysis from 35 Japanese and Multilingual LLMs
  Koshiro Saito, Sakae Mizuki, Masanari Ohi, Taishi Nakamura, Taihei Shiotani, Koki Maeda, Youmi Ma, Kakeru Hattori, Kazuki Fujii, Takumi Okamoto, Shigeki Ishida, Hiroya Takamura, Rio Yokota, Naoaki Okazaki
• Beyond the Final Layer: Intermediate Representations Improve Multilingual Calibration
  Ej Zhou, Caiqi Zhang, Tiancheng Hu, Chengzu Li, Nigel Collier, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen
• The Case of Spanish as a Pluricentric Language: Challenging the Monolingual Bias in NLP to Improve Cultural Adequacy of LLMs
  María Grandury, Diana Galvan-Sosa

Conference Track

• Faux Polyglot: A Study on Information Disparity in Multilingual Large Language Models
  Nikhil Sharma, Kenton Murray, Ziang Xiao
• LLMs as Self-Auditors: Benchmarking Faithful and Grounded Explanations in High-Stakes Scientific Reasoning
  Samarth Yogesh Jadhav, Rutuja Rajaram More
• Shortcomings of LLMs for Low-Resource Translation: Retrieval and Understanding are Both the Problem
  Sara Court, Micha Elsner
• Beyond Global Models- Navigating the Practical, Political, and Philosophical Landscape of Regional LLM
  sachin panicker

Workshop Track

• Bias Beyond English: Evaluating Social Bias and Debiasing Methods in a Low-Resource Setting
  Ej Zhou, Weiming Lu
• Unlocking Medieval Texts: How Large Language Models Transform POS Tagging for Historical Romance Languages
  Matthias Schöffel, Esteban Garces Arias
• Kowen: Training a Strong Bilingual LLM through Synthetic Data
  Noah Lee, Jiwoo Hong, Rodrigo Martínez-Castaño, César Rodríguez
• Toxicity-Aware Few-Shot Prompting for Low-Resource Singlish Translation
  Ziyu Ge, Gabriel Chua, Leanne Tan, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
• Disparities in LLM Accuracy and Reasoning: A Case Study on African American English
  Runtao Zhou, Guangya Wan, Saadia Gabriel, Sheng Li, Alexander J Gates, Maarten Sap, Thomas Hartvigsen
• Sarc7: Evaluating Sarcasm Detection and Generation with Seven Types and Emotion-Informed Techniques
  Lang Xiong, Raina Gao, Alyssa Jeong, Yicheng Fu, Kevin Zhu, Sean O’Brien, Vasu Sharma
• Black LLMirror: User (Self) Perceptions in Black American English Interactions with LLMs
  Mikayla Campbell, Maarten Sap, Mark Diaz, Joel Mire, Daniel Chechelnitsky
• Breaking mBad! Supervised Fine-tuning for Cross-Lingual Detoxification
  Himanshu Beniwal, Youngwoo Kim, Maarten Sap, Soham Dan, Thomas Hartvigsen
• Improving Multilingual Language Models by Aligning Representations through Steering
  Omar Mahmoud, Buddhika Laknath Semage, Thommen George Karimpanal, Santu Rana
• CycleDistill: Bootstrapping Machine Translation using LLMs with Cyclical Distillation
  Deepon Halder, Thanmay Jayakumar, Raj Dabre
• Continually Adding New Languages to Multilingual Language Models
  Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Sachin Kumar
• Redteaming Leading Arabic LLMs with ASAS
  Haidar Khan, Abdalghani Abujabal, M Saiful Bari, Fidaa Abed, Babar Khalid Khan
• Social Norms in Cinema: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Shame, Pride and Prejudice
  Sunny Rai, Khushang Zaveri, Shreya Havaldar, Soumna Nema, Lyle Ungar, Sharath Chandra Guntuku
• Can You Hear Naples? Building and Benchmarking a Neapolitan Speech Corpus
  Michael Cacioli, Liam Eggleston, Jatin Sarabu, Ivory Yang, Kevin Zhu
• Cross-Lingual Transfer Does Not Implicitly Occur by Jointly Pretraining on Multilingual Data
  Thanmay Jayakumar, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Raj Dabre
• Mark My Words: A Robust Multilingual Model for Punctuation in Text and Speech Transcripts
  Sidharth Pulipaka, Ashwin Sankar, Sparsh Jain, Raj Dabre
• Cross-Lingual Gender Bias in LLMs through Workplace Scenario Simulations
  Aryan Gulati