Day 3: December 7, 2025

Day 3: December 7, 2025

9:30 Keynote Talk: Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania)

Spontaneous Speech: Challenges and Opportunities for Speech Technology and for Models of Perception and Production. 

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Oral Presentations

Session 7a: Syntax

Masanori Oya, Yuka Kaise and Yuto Tsuchiya. The propositional idea densities of different languages in multi-lingual parallel corpus

Menghan Jiang and Chu-Ren Huang. The Evolutionary Mechanisms of Transitivization in Mandarin VO Compounds: A Corpus-Driven Study of Competing Alternations

Nayoung Kwon and Seongmin Mun. Evaluating Syntactic Generalization in Transformer-Based Models Using Korean Honorific Agreement

Hiroki Unno, Tomohiro Ohno, Koichiro Ito and Shigeki Matsubara. Dependency-Aware Word Prediction Integrated with Incremental Parsing

Session 7b: Semantics II

Minh-Phuong Nguyen, Tien Dang and Naoya Inoue. Non-Interactive Symbolic-Aided Chain-of-Thought for Logical Reasoning

Kohei Oda, Hiroya Takamura, Kiyoaki Shirai and Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn. Improving Interpretability of Lexical Semantic Change with Neurobiological Features

Feifei Sun, Ziyi Tong, Teeradaj Racharak and Minh Le Nguyen. Time Tells: Temporal Event Ordering in Frontier LLMs — Performance, Limitations, and Human Comparison

Yi Yao and Qiu Zhuang. Do Multimodal Large Language Models Have “Good Taste”? An Evaluation of MLLMs via the Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test

12:30 Lunch Break

13:40 Oral Presentations

Session 8a: Machine Translation

Wenhui Shi and Ziman Han. RMCP: Enhancing LLM-based Translation via Prompting with Retrieved Monolingual Corpora

Bao Pham-Thai, Vy Do Le Khanh and Huy Quoc To. BV-FRD: A Multimodal Vietnamese-English Food Review Video Description Generation

Jin Yim. Preserving Ambiguity: Prompt Sensitivity in Gender-Neutral Literary Translation by GPT Models

Trong Huy Nguyen, Thanh Huong Le and Que Nhu Tran. Towards Improving Low-Resource Machine Translation with Lightweight Training and Synthetic Data: Case Study of Vietnamese – Khmer

R S Mughil Srinivasan, Kesavan T, Abhijith Balan, Abhinav P M, Parameswari Krishnamurthy and Oswald C. VIDAI: VIDukathAI Interpretation Through Analysis of In-context Reasoning in Tamil using LLMs

Session 8b: Corpus Linguistics II

Hang Zhu, Rowan Hall Maudslay, Kanako Komiya, Sachi Kato and Masayuki Asahara. Large-Scale Japanese Metaphor Corpus Construction: Expanding BCCWJ-Metaphor with Automated Annotation

Xin Luo, Wing Hei Lok and Yu-Yin Hsu. ‘But this one was so . . . male.’ A Corpus-Based and LLM-Augmented Analysis of Language and Gender Bias in Barbie

Yifan Li, Yanlin Li and Kathleen Ahrens. A corpus-assisted metaphor analysis in portraying businesswomen: Diachronic changes in Hong Kong English news

Nevidu Jayatilleke and Nisansa de Silva. SiDiaC: Sinhala Diachronic Corpus

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Keynote Talk: Shalom Lappin (University of Gothenburg)

Exploring Architectures for Neuro-Symbolic Models in AI.

17:00 Closing Session