📰 *SEM 2025 — accepted papers

*SEM 2025 is the 2025 edition of the Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), held in Suzhou, China, November 2025 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 35 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Suzhou, China · 🗓 November 2025

Most cited papers

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

1. AdvERSEM: Adversarial Robustness Testing and Training of LLM-based Groundedness Evaluators via Semantic Structure Manipulation ↗Kaustubh Dhole, Ramraj Chandradevan, Eugene Agichtein2 citations
2. HSGM: Hierarchical Segment-Graph Memory for Scalable Long-Text Semantics ↗Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu2 citations
3. LLMs as annotators of argumentation ↗Anna Lindahl2 citations
4. Relation-Aware Prompting Makes Large Language Models Effective Zero-shot Relation Extractors ↗Mahdi Rahimi, Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru, Mihai Surdeanu2 citations
5. All Entities are Not Created Equal: Examining the Long Tail for Ultra-Fine Entity Typing ↗Advait Deshmukh, Ashwin Umadi, Dananjay Srinivas et al.1 citation
6. Injecting Frame Semantics into Large Language Models via Prompt-Based Fine-Tuning ↗Shahid Iqbal Rai, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili1 citation
7. Semantic Prosody in Machine Translation: the English-Chinese Case of Passive Structures ↗Xinyue Ma, Pol Pastells, Mariona Taulé Delor et al.1 citation

All accepted papers (35)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. AdvERSEM: Adversarial Robustness Testing and Training of LLM-based Groundedness Evaluators via Semantic Structure Manipulation ↗Kaustubh Dhole, Ramraj Chandradevan, Eugene Agichtein2 citations
2. HSGM: Hierarchical Segment-Graph Memory for Scalable Long-Text Semantics ↗Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu2 citations
3. LLMs as annotators of argumentation ↗Anna Lindahl2 citations
4. Relation-Aware Prompting Makes Large Language Models Effective Zero-shot Relation Extractors ↗Mahdi Rahimi, Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru, Mihai Surdeanu2 citations
5. All Entities are Not Created Equal: Examining the Long Tail for Ultra-Fine Entity Typing ↗Advait Deshmukh, Ashwin Umadi, Dananjay Srinivas et al.1 citation
6. Injecting Frame Semantics into Large Language Models via Prompt-Based Fine-Tuning ↗Shahid Iqbal Rai, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili1 citation
7. Semantic Prosody in Machine Translation: the English-Chinese Case of Passive Structures ↗Xinyue Ma, Pol Pastells, Mariona Taulé Delor et al.1 citation
8. AmbiStory: A Challenging Dataset of Lexically Ambiguous Short Stories ↗Janosch Gehring, Michael Roth
9. Bridging Information Gaps with Comprehensive Answers: Improving the Diversity and Informativeness of Follow-Up Questions ↗Zhe Liu, Taekyu Kang, Haoyu Wang et al.
10. ChengyuSTS: An Intrinsic Perspective on Mandarin Idiom Representation ↗Le Qiu, Emmanuele Chersoni, Aline Villavicencio
11. Connecting Concept Layers and Rationales to Enhance Language Model Interpretability ↗Thomas Bailleux, Tanmoy Mukherjee, Pierre Marquis et al.
12. Cross-Domain Persuasion Detection with Argumentative Features ↗Bagyasree Sudharsan, Maria Leonor Pacheco
13. Cross-Lingual Extractive Question Answering with Unanswerable Questions ↗Yuval Gorodissky, Elior Sulem, Dan Roth
14. DisCoCLIP: A Distributional Compositional Tensor Network Encoder for Vision-Language Understanding ↗Kin Ian Lo, Hala Hawashin, Mina Abbaszadeh et al.
15. Enhancing Readability-Controlled Text Modification with Readability Assessment and Target Span Prediction ↗Fengkai Liu, John S. Y. Lee
16. Evaluating Compositional Generalisation in VLMs and Diffusion Models ↗Beth Pearson, Bilal Boulbarss, Michael Wray et al.
17. Evaluating Textual and Visual Semantic Neighborhoods of Abstract and Concrete Concepts ↗Sven Naber, Diego Frassinelli, Sabine Schulte im Walde
18. Explanations explained. Influence of Free-text Explanations on LLMs and the Role of Implicit Knowledge ↗Andrea Zaninello, Roberto Dessi, Malvina Nissim et al.
19. From Complex Word Identification to Substitution: Instruction-Tuned Language Models for Lexical Simplification ↗Tonghui Han, Xinru Zhang, Yaxin Bi et al.
20. Generalizability of Media Frames: Corpus creation and analysis across countries ↗Agnese Daffara, Sourabh Dattawad, Sebastian Padó et al.
21. Hallucinated Span Detection with Multi-View Attention Features ↗Yuya Ogasa, Yuki Arase
22. How Do Large Language Models Evaluate Lexical Complexity? ↗Abdelhak Kelious, Mathieu Constant, Christophe Coeur
23. If We May De-Presuppose: Robustly Verifying Claims through Presupposition-Free Question Decomposition ↗Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Francis Ferraro
24. Knowledge Editing Induces Underconfidence in Language Models ↗Ryo Hasegawa, Yusuke Sakai, Hidetaka Kamigaito et al.
25. Latent Traits and Cross-Task Transfer: Deconstructing Dataset Interactions in LLM Fine-tuning ↗Shambhavi Krishna, Atharva Naik, Chaitali Agarwal et al.

See all 35 papers in SEM 2025 — accepted papers →

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (2)

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

1. When Does Meaning Backfire? Investigating the Role of AMRs in NLIJoint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Junghyun Min, Xiulin Yang, Shira Wein2025
2. Math Natural Language Inference: this should be easy!Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)Valeria de Paiva, Qiyue Gao, Hai Hu, et al.2025

🧭 Top topics

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

🧮Reasoning (2)🧾Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (2)🖥️Computer Science (2)

🧑‍🔬 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.

🎓Amherst CollegeAmherst Center · United States1 work here🎓Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityShanghai · China1 work here🎓Georgetown UniversityWashington · United States1 work here🎓University of California San DiegoSan Diego · United States1 work here🤝Topos InstituteBerkeley · United States1 work here🎓Indiana UniversityBloomington · United States1 work here🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States1 work here

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