Day 2: December 6, 2025

Day 2: December 6, 2025

 

9:30 Keynote Talk: Derek F. Wong (University of Macau)

Can a Language Model Be a Good Judge? Towards Reliable Evaluation and Better Reasoning.

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Oral Presentations

Session 4a: Semantics 

Sara Besharati. Exploring Synonymy Representation in Large Language Models: A Comparative Analysis with Referential and Use-Based Lexical Resources

Yebin Lee, Sanghoun Song and Arum Kang. Assessing GPT models’ Sensitivity to Epistemic Meanings in Korean Periphrastic Construction

Ganesh Katrapati and Manish Shrivastava. Non Idiomatic Conventionalised Expressions: A New Pain in the Neck?

Chan Young Jung. Same Spelling, Different Functions Mah: Evaluating Language Models' Understanding of Singlish Particles

Session 4b: Corpus Linguistics

Ka-Fai Yip, Yaxuan Ji, Dicky Ko, Thomas Ho and Benjamin K. Tsou. Converging and diverging variations in metaphorization of light verbs: A corpus study on four Chinese speech communities

Kazuho Kambara, Yuki Sugawara and Norihisa Takahashi. How “empirical” is corpus linguistics? A meta-analysis using formal concept analysis

Romeo Jr. Tejada, Jose Marie Ocdenaria and Kenneth Lisbo. Speaking to the Inner Child: A Discourse Analysis of Healing Narratives in Digital Therapeutic Culture

12:30 Lunch break

13:30 Poster Session 2

  • Junichiro Niimi. Reference Points in LLM Sentiment Analysis: The Role of Structured Context
  • Xueyi Wen, Hongzhi Xu and Lili Yang. An Investigation of Sentiment Polarity in Chinese VO Idioms Based on NLP Models
  • Daiki Shirafuji, Tatsuhiko Saito and Yasutomo Kimura. An Empirical Survey of Model Merging Algorithms for Social Bias Mitigation
  • Manh-Cuong Phan, Thi-Ngoc-Phuong Nguyen, Huu-Loi Le, Huy-The Vu, Hajime Hotta and Minh-Tien Nguyen. From Span Extraction to Classification: A Multi-step Framework for Cognitive Distortion Analysis
  • Jesse W. C. Yip and Michelle Man-Long Pang. Researching and Rethinking the Culture and Practice of Eldercare in Hong Kong: A Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis
  • Hoang Thanh Nguyen, Tung Le and Huy Tien Nguyen. HisGraphRAG: GraphRAG for Vietnamese Historical question answering
  • James Ald Teves, Ray Daniel Cal, Josh Magdiel Villaluz, Jean Malolos, Mico Magtira, Ramon Rodriguez, Mideth Abisado and Joseph Marvin Imperial. HiligayNER: A Baseline Named Entity Recognition Model for Hiligaynon
  • Kentaro Kojima, Yoshihide Kato and Shigeki Matsubara. Is CCGbank Semantically Valid? Insights from Negation Scope Analysis
  • Dongnyeong Heo, Daniela Noemi Rim and Heeyoul Choi. Diverse Target Representations for Language Models with Word Difference Representations

14:30 Oral Presentations

Session 5a: NLP Applications III

Keisuke Iwamoto and Kazutaka Shimada. Exaggeration Scoring of News Summaries through LLM-based Relative Judgments

Prathamesh Kokate, Mitali Sarnaik, Manavi Khopade and Raviraj Joshi. Improving the Efficiency of Long Document Classification using Sentence Ranking Approach

Steven Au, Cameron Dimacali, Ojasmitha Pedirappagari, Namyong Park, Franck Dernoncourt, Yu Wang, Nikos Kanakaris, Hanieh Deilamsalehy, Ryan A. Rossi and Nesreen K. Ahmed. Personalized Graph-Based Retrieval for Large Language Models

K. M Hewapathirana, Nisansa de Silva, Chathurike Dayal Athuraliya and Piumi Kandanaarachchi. Domain Adaptation for Multi-document Summarisation: A Case Study in the Medical Research Domain

Session 5b: Sentiment and Emotion Analysis

Xinyi Wang, Mingyu Wan and Chu-Ren Huang. Computational Linguistic Approach to Empathy and its Language Communication Pattern

Jieyu Chen, Yujia Tian, Jing Qi and Ran Tao. Effect of Emotional Congruency and Cognitive Load on Word Processing

Ryota Amano, Kazuya Mera, Yoshiaki Kurosawa and Toshiyuki Takezawa. Controlling Emotion Intensity and Blending in Text via Task Vector Composition for Dialog System Personalization

Katarzyna Szczepaniak and Piotr Andruszkiewicz. MoE4EDiReF: Mixture of Experts for Emotion Discovery and Reasoning its Flip in Conversation

15:50 Coffee Break

16:20 Oral Presentations

Session 6a: Multimodality

Shuhei Yamashita, Daiki Shirafuji and Tatsuhiko Saito. Bridging the Modality Gap by Similarity Standardization with Pseudo-Positive Samples

Zhenming Li and Kazutaka Shimada. Semantic Meaning or Script Shape? A Comparative Study of Cross-Lingual Transfer in mBERT and PIXEL

Session 6b: NLP for Low-resource Languages

Abhay Shanbhag, Suramya Jadhav, Amogh Thakurdesai, Ridhima Sinare, Raviraj Joshi and Ananya Joshi. MahaParaphrase: A Marathi Paraphrase Detection Corpus and BERT-based Models

Pankaj Choudhury, Chaitanya Kirti, Dhrubajyoti Pathak and Sukumar Nandi. AsRED: Development and Evaluation of an Assamese Reduplication Dataset

Sharvi Endait, Ruturaj Ghatage, Aditya Kulkarni, Rajlaxmi Patil and Raviraj Joshi. IndicSQuAD: A Comprehensive Multilingual Question Answering Dataset for Indic Languages

17:20 Oral Presentations

Session 6a: NLP for Low-resource Languages II

Aswinkumar I, Sangeetha Sivanesan and S Jaya Nirmala. Ancient Tamil Palm Leaf Character Recognition using Transformers

Nidhi Kowtal and Raviraj Joshi. L3Cube-MahaEmotions: A Marathi Emotion Recognition Dataset with Synthetic Annotations using CoTR prompting and Large Language Models

Session 6b: NLP Applications IV

John Blake, Kazuma Tamura and Krzysztof Kredens. Dual-mode N-gram Similarity Detection for Forensic Authorship Analysis

Thanh-Nhi Nguyen and Trong-Hop Do. A Social Listening System for Beauty Products Using Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Dawid Smalcuga and Piotr Andruszkiewicz. How Is Context Important in Named Entity Recognition? A Comparison of Non-contextual and Contextual Word Embeddings

19:00 Social Dinner