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“Tug-of-war between idioms' figurative and literal interpretations in LLMs” by
Soyoung Oh, Xinting Huang, Mathis Pink, Michael Hahn, Vera Demberg
OpenReview
Promoting openness in scientific communication and the peer-review process
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January 14, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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"When Flores Bloomz Wrong: An Analysis of Cross-Lingual Contamination in Machine Translation Evaluation" by
David Tan, Pinzhen Chen, Josef van Genabith, Koel Dutta Chowdhury
January 14, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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“Assessing Web Search Credibility and Response Groundedness in Chat Assistants” by
Ivan Vykopal, Matúš Pikuliak, Simon Ostermann, Marián Šimko
Assessing Web Search Credibility and Response Groundedness in Chat Assistants
Chat assistants increasingly integrate web search functionality, enabling them to retrieve and cite external sources. While this promises more reliable answers, it also raises the risk of amplifying m...
arxiv.org
January 14, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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“Modeling Turn-Taking with Semantically Informed Gestures” by
Varsha Suresh, M. Hamza Mughal, Christian Theobalt, Vera Demberg
OpenReview
Promoting openness in scientific communication and the peer-review process
openreview.net
January 14, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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“Assessing Web Search Credibility and Response Groundedness in Chat Assistants” by
Ivan Vykopal, Matúš Pikuliak, Simon Ostermann, Marián Šimko
Assessing Web Search Credibility and Response Groundedness in Chat Assistants
Chat assistants increasingly integrate web search functionality, enabling them to retrieve and cite external sources. While this promises more reliable answers, it also raises the risk of amplifying m...
arxiv.org
January 14, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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“Tug-of-war between idioms' figurative and literal interpretations in LLMs” by
Soyoung Oh, Xinting Huang, Mathis Pink, Michael Hahn, Vera Demberg
OpenReview
Promoting openness in scientific communication and the peer-review process
openreview.net
January 14, 2026 at 2:20 PM
lst.uni-saarland.de
"When Flores Bloomz Wrong: An Analysis of Cross-Lingual Contamination in Machine Translation Evaluation" by
David Tan, Pinzhen Chen, Josef van Genabith, Koel Dutta Chowdhury
January 14, 2026 at 2:20 PM
lst.uni-saarland.de
“Modeling Turn-Taking with Semantically Informed Gestures” by
Varsha Suresh, M. Hamza Mughal, Christian Theobalt, Vera Demberg
OpenReview
Promoting openness in scientific communication and the peer-review process
openreview.net
January 14, 2026 at 2:20 PM
lst.uni-saarland.de
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology report on it.
www.mpg.de
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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"TenseLoC: Tense Localization and Control in a Multilingual LLM" by Ariun-Erdene Tumurchuluun, Yusser Al Ghussin, David Mareček, Josef Van Genabith, Koel Dutta Chowdhury
TenseLoC: Tense Localization and Control in a Multilingual LLM
Ariun-Erdene Tumurchuluun, Yusser Al Ghussin, David Mareček, Josef Van Genabith, Koel Dutta Chowdhury. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2025). 2025.
aclanthology.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Cross-Prompt Encoder for Low-Performing Languages

Beso Mikaberidze, Teimuraz Saghinadze, Simon Ostermann, Philipp Muller

International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025 (Findings)
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Multilingual Political Views of Large Language Models: Identification and Steering

Daniil Gurgurov, Katharina Trinley, Ivan Vykopal, Josef van Genabith, Simon Ostermann, Roberto Zamparelli
(Findings)
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Modular Arithmetic: Language Models Solve Math Digit by Digit

Tanja Baeumel, Daniil Gurgurov, Yusser al Ghussin, Josef van Genabith, Simon Ostermann

International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025 (Findings)
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Surprisal Dynamics for the Detection of Multi-Word Expressions in English

Diego Alves, Sergei Bagdasarov, Elke Teich

International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025 (Findings)
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM