📰 EMNLP 2025 — accepted papers

EMNLP 2025 is the 2025 edition of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), held in Suzhou, China, 4–9 November 2025 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 2,086 papers of it in 4 tracks; our library holds 19 with our summaries. Below: its awards, the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

Tracks

Main1,809Industry Track193System Demonstrations77Tutorial Abstracts7

Awards

As the ACL Anthology records them.

1. Mind the Value-Action Gap: Do LLMs Act in Alignment with Their Values?Hua Shen, Nicholas Clark, Tanu Mitra · 🏆 Outstanding Paper7 citations
2. ReSo: A Reward-driven Self-organizing LLM-based Multi-Agent System for Reasoning TasksHeng Zhou, Hejia Geng, Xiangyuan Xue et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award7 citations
3. AccessEval: Benchmarking Disability Bias in Large Language ModelsSrikant Panda, Amit Agarwal, Hitesh Laxmichand Patel · 🏆 Social Impact Award6 citations
4. Mind the Blind Spots: A Focus-Level Evaluation Framework for LLM ReviewsHyungyu Shin, Jingyu Tang, Yoonjoo Lee et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award5 citations
5. Generative or Discriminative? Revisiting Text Classification in the Era of TransformersSiva Rajesh Kasa, Karan Gupta, Sumegh Roychowdhury et al. · 🏆 Outstanding Paper4 citations
6. Measuring Chain of Thought Faithfulness by Unlearning Reasoning StepsMartin Tutek, Fateme Hashemi Chaleshtori, Ana Marasovic et al. · 🏆 Outstanding Paper4 citations
7. Prototypical Human-AI Collaboration Behaviors from LLM-Assisted Writing in the WildSheshera Mysore, Debarati Das, Hancheng Cao et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award4 citations
8. ReasonMed: A 370K Multi-Agent Generated Dataset for Advancing Medical ReasoningYu Sun, Xingyu Qian, Weiwen Xu et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award4 citations
9. Analyzing Uncertainty of LLM-as-a-Judge: Interval Evaluations with Conformal PredictionHuanxin Sheng, Xinyi Liu, Hangfeng He et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award3 citations
10. Comparing human and LLM politeness strategies in free productionHaoran Zhao, Robert D. Hawkins · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award3 citations · our summary
11. Estimating LLM Consistency: A User Baseline vs Surrogate MetricsXiaoyuan Wu, Weiran Lin, Omer Akgul et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award3 citations
12. Tokenization and Representation Biases in Multilingual Models on Dialectal NLP TasksVani Kanjirangat, Tanja Samardzic, Ljiljana Dolamic et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award3 citations
13. Calibrating Verbal Uncertainty as a Linear Feature to Reduce HallucinationsZiwei Ji, Lei Yu, Yeskendir Koishekenov et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award2 citations
14. Cardiverse: Harnessing LLMs for Novel Card Game PrototypingDanrui Li, Sen Zhang, Samuel S. Sohn et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award2 citations
15. Causal Interventions Reveal Shared Structure Across English Filler–Gap ConstructionsSasha Boguraev, Christopher Potts, Kyle Mahowald · 🏆 Outstanding Paper2 citations · our summary
16. Collab-Overcooked: Benchmarking and Evaluating Large Language Models as Collaborative AgentsHaochen Sun, Shuwen Zhang, Lujie Niu et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award2 citations
17. HMoE: Heterogeneous Mixture of Experts for Language ModelingAn Wang, Xingwu Sun, Ruobing Xie et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award2 citations
18. To Mask or to Mirror: Human-AI Alignment in Collective ReasoningCrystal Qian, Aaron T Parisi, Clémentine Bouleau et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award2 citations
19. Aligning Text/Speech Representations from Multimodal Models with MEG Brain Activity During ListeningPadakanti Srijith, Khushbu Pahwa, Radhika Mamidi et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award1 citation
20. DiscoSG: Towards Discourse-Level Text Scene Graph Parsing through Iterative Graph RefinementShaoqing Lin, Chong Teng, Fei Li et al. · 🏆 Outstanding Paper1 citation
21. Infini-gram mini: Exact n-gram Search at the Internet Scale with FM-IndexHao Xu, Jiacheng Liu, Yejin Choi et al. · 🏆 Best Paper1 citation
22. Layer-wise Minimal Pair Probing Reveals Contextual Grammatical-Conceptual Hierarchy in Speech RepresentationsLinyang He, Qiaolin Wang, Xilin Jiang et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award1 citation
23. LiTEx: A Linguistic Taxonomy of Explanations for Understanding Within-Label Variation in Natural Language InferencePingjun Hong, Beiduo Chen, Siyao Peng et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award1 citation
24. MAviS: A Multimodal Conversational Assistant For Avian SpeciesYevheniia Kryklyvets, Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award1 citation
25. NormGenesis: Multicultural Dialogue Generation via Exemplar-Guided Social Norm Modeling and Violation RecoveryMinki Hong, Jangho Choi, Jihie Kim · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award1 citation
26. RALS: Resources and Baselines for Romanian Automatic Lexical SimplificationFabian Anghel, Petru Theodor Cristea, Claudiu Creangă et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award1 citation
27. AMACE: Automatic Multi-Agent Chart Evolution for Iteratively Tailored Chart GenerationHyuk Namgoong, Jeesu Jung, Hyeonseok Kang et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
28. AbsVis – Benchmarking How Humans and Vision-Language Models “See” Abstract Concepts in ImagesTarun Tater, Diego Frassinelli, Sabine Schulte im Walde · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
29. Autoformalization in the Wild: Assessing LLMs on Real-World Mathematical DefinitionsLan Zhang, Marco Valentino, Andre Freitas · 🏆 Best Resource Paper
30. Beyond WER: Probing Whisper's Sub-token Decoder Across Diverse Language Resource LevelsSiyu Liang, Nicolas Ballier, Gina-Anne Levow et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
31. Constructions are Revealed in Word DistributionsJoshua Rozner, Leonie Weissweiler, Kyle Mahowald et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
32. Detecting Legal Citations in United Kingdom Court JudgmentsHolli Sargeant, Andreas Östling, Måns Magnusson · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
33. Discriminating Form and Meaning in Multilingual Models with Minimal-Pair ABX TasksMaureen de Seyssel, Jie Chi, Skyler Seto et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
34. FoREST: Frame of Reference Evaluation in Spatial Reasoning TasksTanawan Premsri, Parisa Kordjamshidi · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
35. GATEAU: Selecting Influential Samples for Long Context AlignmentShuzheng Si, Haozhe Zhao, Gang Chen et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
36. InterIDEAS: Philosophical Intertextuality via LLMsYue Yang, Yinzhi Xu, Chenghao Huang et al. · 🏆 Best Special Theme Paper
37. Lemmatization of Polish Multi-word ExpressionsMagdalena Król, Aleksander Smywiński-Pohl, Zbigniew Kaleta et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
38. Liaozhai through the Looking-Glass: On Paratextual Explicitation of Culture-Bound Terms in Machine TranslationSherrie Shen, Weixuan Wang, Alexandra Birch · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
39. LingGym: How Far Are LLMs from Thinking Like Field Linguists?Changbing Yang, Franklin Ma, Freda Shi et al. · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
40. MiCRo: Mixture Modeling and Context-aware Routing for Personalized Preference LearningJingyan Shen, Jiarui Yao, Rui Yang et al. · 🏆 Outstanding Paper
41. PAFT: Prompt-Agnostic Fine-TuningChenxing Wei, Mingwen Ou, Ying He et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
42. PSET: a Phonetics-Semantics Evaluation TestbedGianluca Sperduti, Dong Nguyen · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
43. Quantifying Language Disparities in Multilingual Large Language ModelsSongbo Hu, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
44. Randomly Removing 50% of Dimensions in Text Embeddings has Minimal Impact on Retrieval and Classification TasksSotaro Takeshita, Yurina Takeshita, Daniel Ruffinelli et al. · 🏆 People's Choice Award
45. Think in Safety: Unveiling and Mitigating Safety Alignment Collapse in Multimodal Large Reasoning ModelXinyue Lou, You Li, Jinan Xu et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
46. Whisper-UT: A Unified Translation Framework for Speech and TextCihan Xiao, Matthew Wiesner, Debashish Chakraborty et al. · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award
47. Who Holds the Pen? Caricature and Perspective in LLM Retellings of HistoryLubna Zahan Lamia, Mabsur Fatin Bin Hossain, Md Mosaddek Khan · 🏆 SAC Highlight Award

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. From Generation to Judgment: Opportunities and Challenges of LLM-as-a-judgeDawei Li, Bohan Jiang, Liangjie Huang et al.111 citations
2. s1: Simple test-time scalingNiklas Muennighoff, Zitong Yang, Weijia Shi et al.73 citations · our summary
3. Search-o1: Agentic Search-Enhanced Large Reasoning ModelsXiaoxi Li, Guanting Dong, Jiajie Jin et al.48 citations · our summary
4. Depression Detection on Social Media with Large Language ModelsXiaochong Lan, Zhiguang Han, Yiming Cheng et al. · Industry Track39 citations
5. MedHallu: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Detecting Medical Hallucinations in Large Language ModelsShrey Pandit, Jiawei Xu, Junyuan Hong et al.28 citations
6. Large Language Models Meet Knowledge Graphs for Question Answering: Synthesis and OpportunitiesChuangtao Ma, Yongrui Chen, Tianxing Wu et al.27 citations
7. OG-RAG: Ontology-grounded retrieval-augmented generation for large language modelsKartik Sharma, Peeyush Kumar, Yunqing Li25 citations · our summary
8. Towards Controllable Speech Synthesis in the Era of Large Language Models: A Systematic SurveyTianxin Xie, Yan Rong, Pengfei Zhang et al.24 citations
9. Stop Looking for “Important Tokens” in Multimodal Language Models: Duplication Matters MoreZichen Wen, Yifeng Gao, Shaobo Wang et al.22 citations
10. A Systematic Survey of Automatic Prompt Optimization TechniquesKiran Ramnath, Kang Zhou, Sheng Guan et al.21 citations

All accepted papers (2,086)

The most cited first; 19 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. From Generation to Judgment: Opportunities and Challenges of LLM-as-a-judgeDawei Li, Bohan Jiang, Liangjie Huang et al.111 citations
2. s1: Simple test-time scalingNiklas Muennighoff, Zitong Yang, Weijia Shi et al.73 citations · our summary
3. Search-o1: Agentic Search-Enhanced Large Reasoning ModelsXiaoxi Li, Guanting Dong, Jiajie Jin et al.48 citations · our summary
4. Depression Detection on Social Media with Large Language ModelsXiaochong Lan, Zhiguang Han, Yiming Cheng et al. · Industry Track39 citations
5. MedHallu: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Detecting Medical Hallucinations in Large Language ModelsShrey Pandit, Jiawei Xu, Junyuan Hong et al.28 citations
6. Large Language Models Meet Knowledge Graphs for Question Answering: Synthesis and OpportunitiesChuangtao Ma, Yongrui Chen, Tianxing Wu et al.27 citations
7. OG-RAG: Ontology-grounded retrieval-augmented generation for large language modelsKartik Sharma, Peeyush Kumar, Yunqing Li25 citations · our summary
8. Towards Controllable Speech Synthesis in the Era of Large Language Models: A Systematic SurveyTianxin Xie, Yan Rong, Pengfei Zhang et al.24 citations
9. Stop Looking for “Important Tokens” in Multimodal Language Models: Duplication Matters MoreZichen Wen, Yifeng Gao, Shaobo Wang et al.22 citations
10. A Systematic Survey of Automatic Prompt Optimization TechniquesKiran Ramnath, Kang Zhou, Sheng Guan et al.21 citations
11. DeepResearcher: Scaling Deep Research via Reinforcement Learning in Real-world EnvironmentsYuxiang Zheng, Dayuan Fu, Xiangkun Hu et al.21 citations · our summary
12. SensorLLM: Aligning Large Language Models with Motion Sensors for Human Activity RecognitionZechen Li, Shohreh Deldari, Linyao Chen et al.21 citations
13. Mitigating the Privacy Issues in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) via Pure Synthetic DataShenglai Zeng, Jiankun Zhang, Pengfei He et al.20 citations
14. Chat-Driven Text Generation and Interaction for Person RetrievalZequn Xie, Chuxin Wang, Yeqiang Wang et al.19 citations
15. Memory OS of AI AgentJiazheng Kang, Mingming Ji, Zhe Zhao et al.19 citations
16. Alpha-GPT: Human-AI Interactive Alpha Mining for Quantitative InvestmentSaizhuo Wang, Hang Yuan, Leon Zhou et al. · System Demonstrations17 citations
17. CODI: Compressing Chain-of-Thought into Continuous Space via Self-DistillationZhenyi Shen, Hanqi Yan, Linhai Zhang et al.17 citations · our summary
18. MathTutorBench: A Benchmark for Measuring Open-ended Pedagogical Capabilities of LLM TutorsJakub Macina, Nico Daheim, Ido Hakimi et al.17 citations
19. Are LLMs Better than Reported? Detecting Label Errors and Mitigating Their Effect on Model PerformanceOmer Nahum, Nitay Calderon, Orgad Keller et al.16 citations
20. From Automation to Autonomy: A Survey on Large Language Models in Scientific DiscoveryTianshi Zheng, Zheye Deng, Hong Ting Tsang et al.16 citations
21. ChatVLA: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Robot Control with Vision-Language-Action ModelZhongyi Zhou, Yichen Zhu, Minjie Zhu et al.15 citations
22. Comparing Specialised Small and General Large Language Models on Text Classification: 100 Labelled Samples to Achieve Break-Even PerformanceBranislav Pecher, Ivan Srba, Maria Bielikova15 citations
23. Breaking Agents: Compromising Autonomous LLM Agents Through Malfunction AmplificationBoyang Zhang, Yicong Tan, Yun Shen et al.14 citations
24. Can LLMs be Good Graph Judge for Knowledge Graph Construction?Haoyu Huang, Chong Chen, Zeang Sheng et al.14 citations
25. TableRAG: A Retrieval Augmented Generation Framework for Heterogeneous Document ReasoningXiaohan Yu, Pu Jian, Chong Chen14 citations

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (19)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. s1: Simple test-time scalingNiklas Muennighoff, Zitong Yang, Weijia Shi, et al.2025 · 584 citations
2. Search-o1: Agentic Search-Enhanced Large Reasoning ModelsXiaoxi Li, Guanting Dong, Jiajie Jin, et al.2025 · 205 citations
3. DeepResearcher: Scaling Deep Research via Reinforcement Learning in Real-world EnvironmentsYuxiang Zheng, Dayuan Fu, Xiangkun Hu, et al.2025 · 108 citations
4. TokenSkip: Controllable Chain-of-Thought Compression in LLMsHeming Xia, Chak Tou Leong, Wenjie Wang, et al.2025 · 105 citations
5. CODI: Compressing Chain-of-Thought into Continuous Space via Self-DistillationZhenyi Shen, Hanqi Yan, Linhai Zhang, et al.2025 · 76 citations
6. MMLU-ProX: A Multilingual Benchmark for Advanced Large Language Model EvaluationWeihao Xuan, Rui Yang, Heli Qi, et al.2025 · 74 citations
7. OG-RAG: Ontology-grounded retrieval-augmented generation for large language modelsKartik Sharma, Peeyush Kumar, Yunqing Li2025 · 37 citations
8. How Is LLM Reasoning Distracted by Irrelevant Context? An Analysis Using a Controlled BenchmarkMinglai Yang, Ethan Huang, Liang Zhang, et al.2025 · 24 citations
9. Benchmarking LLMs for Translating Classical Chinese Poetry: Evaluating Adequacy, Fluency, and EleganceAndong Chen, Lianzhang Lou, Kehai Chen, et al.2025 · 18 citations
10. Do Large Language Models Understand Word Senses?Domenico Meconi, Simone Stirpe, Federico Martelli2025 · 18 citations
11. TurBLiMP: A Turkish Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal PairsEzgi Başar, Francesca Padovani, Jaap Jumelet, et al.2025 · 14 citations
12. Causal Interventions Reveal Shared Structure Across English Filler–Gap ConstructionsSasha Boguraev, Christopher Potts, Kyle Mahowald2025 · 13 citations
13. SSA-COMET: Do LLMs Outperform Learned Metrics in Evaluating MT for Under-Resourced African Languages?Senyu Li, Jiayi Wang, Felermino D. M. A. Ali, et al.2025 · 13 citations
14. Memorization or Reasoning? Exploring the Idiom Understanding of LLMsJisu Kim, Youngwoo Shin, Uiji Hwang, et al.2025 · 11 citations
15. Pragmatic Inference Chain (PIC) Improving LLMs' Reasoning of Authentic Implicit Toxic LanguageXi Chen, Shuo Wang2025 · 9 citations
16. Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language ModelsFrancesca Padovani, Jaap Jumelet, Yevgen Matusevych, et al.2025 · 9 citations
17. Comparing human and LLM politeness strategies in free productionHaoran Zhao, Robert D. Hawkins2025 · 6 citations
18. Mechanisms vs. Outcomes: Probing for Syntax Fails to Explain Performance on Targeted Syntactic EvaluationsAnanth Agarwal, Jasper Jian, Christopher D Manning, et al.2025 · 4 citations
19. Lemmatization as a Classification Task: Results from Arabic across Multiple GenresMostafa Saeed, Nizar Habash2025 · 2 citations

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

🧠Language models & pretraining (10)🧮Reasoning (7)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (5)English (3)📐Syntax & grammar formalisms (2)🔀Word sense disambiguation (1)🔁Machine translation (1)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)🌱Low-resource languages (1)🧩Morphology (1)🕸️Knowledge graphs & ontologies (1)Semitic languages (1)🔍Information retrieval & search (1)🧒Psycholinguistics & language acquisition (1)🔬Interpretability (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (19)🖥️Computer Science (17)🧠Neuroscience (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States4 works here🎓University of GroningenGroningen · Netherlands2 works here🎓Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore2 works here🎓University of WashingtonSeattle · United States2 works here🎓University College DublinDublin · Ireland1 work here🎓Northwestern UniversityEvanston · United States1 work here🎓University of GenevaGeneva · Switzerland1 work here🎓New York University Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates1 work here🏢MicrosoftRedmond · United States1 work here🏢GoogleMountain View · United States1 work here🎓Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta · United States1 work here🎓University of ArizonaTucson · United States1 work here

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