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Thanks again all for a wonderful #EMNLP2025! For future reference, you can now find all accepted papers, award winners, and outstanding reviewers, area chairs, and senior area chairs on the conference website: 2025.emnlp.org/program/awar...

📢 Statement from ACL and EACL 2026 Organizers

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Thank you all for your exceptional service!

Outstanding Reviewers (3/3):

Shaolin Zhu
Shuai Zhao
Suyash Damle
Tanmay Parekh
Tiankai Yang
Tong Ding
Wei Yao
Xiulin Yang
Xiwen Liang
Yaswanth Narsupalli
Yeyun Gong
Youna Kim
Yuxuan Chen
Yves Scherrer
Zhenzhou Ji
Zhicheng Yang

Outstanding Reviewers (2/3):

Jonathan P. Chang
Justin Vasselli
Kavin R. V., Kerem Zaman
Kevin Duh
Liu Chengwu
Long H. B. Nguyen
Mahan Malihi
Mengru Wang
Mun Yong Yi
Munmun De Choudhury
Nishant Balepur
Pretam Ray
Qing Zong
Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu
Ruida Wang
Sahal Shaji Mullappilly

and Outstanding Reviewers (1/3):

Alon EirewAndrey Sakhovskiy
Arkadiusz Janz
Chun-Ying Huang
Daixuan Cheng
Di Wang
Dominic Petrak
Esra Dönmez
George Zerveas
Giacomo Frisoni
Huachuan Qiu
Huimu Wang
Jiaqi Chen
Jiawei Ma
Jiayi Wang
Jiho Jin
Jingcheng Niu
Joel Ruben Antony Moniz

Outstanding Area Chairs:

Alla Rozovskaya
Gaël Guibon
Gerasimos Spanakis
Jianhui Pang
JinYeong Bak
Jivnesh Sandhan
Lei Li
Lucy Li
Mark G. Lee
Matthieu Labeau
Shruti Rijhwani
Vered Shwartz
Vivek Gupta
Wei Zhao
Xindi Wang

Finally, #EMNLP2025 recognizes the following Outstanding Senior Area Chairs:

Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh
Cassandra L. Jacobs
Debora Nozza
Luciana Benotti
Miryam de Lhoneux
Richard Sproat
Sachin Kumar
Usman Naseem
Wenpeng Yin

FoREST: Frame of Reference Evaluation in Spatial Reasoning Tasks Tanawan Premsri, Parisa Kordjamshidi Layer-wise Minimal Pair Probing Reveals Contextual Grammatical-Conceptual Hierarchy in Speech Representations Linyang He, Qiaolin Wang, Xilin Jiang, Nima Mesgarani Mind the Blind Spots: A Focus-Level Evaluation Framework for LLM Reviews Hyungyu Shin, Jingyu Tang, Yoonjoo Lee, Nayoung Kim, Hyunseung Lim, Ji Yong Cho, Hwajung Hong, Moontae Lee, Juho Kim

Senior Area Chair Highlights (9/9)

NormGenesis: Multicultural Dialogue Generation via Exemplar-Guided Social Norm Modeling and Violation Recovery Minki Hong, Jangho Choi, Jihie Kim LiTEx: A Linguistic Taxonomy of Explanations for Understanding Within-Label Variation in Natural Language Inference Pingjun Hong, Beiduo Chen, Siyao Peng, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Barbara Plank Liaozhai through the Looking-Glass: On Paratextual Explicitation of Culture-Bound Terms in Machine Translation Sherrie Shen, Weixuan Wang, Alexandra Birch Aligning Text/Speech Representations from Multimodal Models with MEG Brain Activity During Listening Padakanti Srijith, Khushbu Pahwa, Radhika Mamidi, Bapi Raju Surampudi, Manish Gupta, Subba R Oota

Senior Area Chair Highlights (8/9)

Cardiverse: Harnessing LLMs for Novel Card Game Prototyping Danrui Li, Sen Zhang, Samuel S. Sohn, Kaidong Hu, Muhammad Usman, Mubbasir Kapadia Estimating LLM Consistency: A User Baseline vs Surrogate Metrics Xiaoyuan Wu, Weiran Lin, Omer Akgul, Lujo Bauer Beyond WER: Probing Whisper's Sub‑token Decoder Across Diverse Language Resource Levels Siyu Liang, Nicolas Ballier, Gina-Anne Levow, Richard Wright RALS: Resources and Baselines for Romanian Automatic Lexical Simplification Fabian Anghel, Cristea Petru-Theodor, Claudiu Creanga, Sergiu Nisioi

Senior Area Chair Highlights (7/9)

Tokenization and Representation Biases in Multilingual Models on Dialectal NLP Tasks Vani Kanjirangat, Tanja Samardzic, Ljiljana Dolamic, Fabio Rinaldi ReasonMed: A 370K Multi-Agent Generated Dataset for Advancing Medical Reasoning Yu Sun, Xingyu Qian, Weiwen Xu, Hao Zhang, Chenghao Xiao, Long Li, Deli Zhao, Wenbing Huang, Tingyang Xu, Qifeng Bai, Yu Rong Detecting Legal Citations in United Kingdom Court Judgments Holli Sargeant, Andreas Östling, Måns Magnusson MAviS: A Multimodal Conversational Assistant For Avian Species Yevheniia Kryklyvets, Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Jinxing Zhou, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman Khan, Hisham Cholakkal

Senior Area Chair Highlights (6/9)

AMACE: Automatic Multi-Agent Chart Evolution for Iteratively Tailored Chart Generation Hyuk Namgoong, Jeesu Jung, Hyeonseok Kang, Yohan Lee, Sangkeun Jung HMoE: Heterogeneous Mixture of Experts for Language Modeling An Wang, Xingwu Sun, Ruobing Xie, Shuaipeng Li, Jiaqi Zhu, Zhen Yang, Pinxue Zhao, Weidong Han, Zhanhui Kang, Di Wang, Naoaki Okazaki, Cheng-zhong Xu Lemmatization of Polish Multi-word Expressions Magdalena Król, Aleksander Smywiński-Pohl, Zbigniew Kaleta, Paweł Lewkowicz Discriminating Form and Meaning in Multilingual Models with Minimal-Pair ABX Tasks Maureen de Seyssel, Jie Chi, Skyler Seto, Maartje Ter Hoeve, Masha Fedzechkina, Natalie Schluter

Senior Area Chair Highlights (5/9)

ReSo: A Reward-driven Self-organizing LLM-based Multi-Agent System for Reasoning Tasks Heng Zhou, Hejia Geng, Xiangyuan Xue, Li Kang, Yiran Qin, Zhiyong Wang, Zhenfei Yin, LEI BAI Prototypical Human-AI Collaboration Behaviors from LLM-Assisted Writing in the Wild Sheshera Mysore, Debarati Das, Hancheng Cao, Bahareh Sarrafzadeh Comparing human and LLM politeness strategies in free production Haoran Zhao, Robert D. Hawkins Who Holds the Pen? Caricature and Perspective in LLM Retellings of History Lubna Zahan Lamia, Mabsur Fatin Bin Hossain, Md Mosaddek Khan

Senior Area Chair Highlights (4/9)

PSET: a Phonetics-Semantics Evaluation Testbed Gianluca Sperduti, Dong Nguyen GATEAU: Selecting Influential Samples for Long Context Alignment Shuzheng Si, Haozhe Zhao, Gang Chen, Yunshui Li, Kangyang Luo, Chuancheng Lv, Kaikai An, Fanchao Qi, Baobao Chang, Maosong Sun AbsVis -- Benchmarking How Humans and Vision-Language Models "See" Abstract Concepts in Images Tarun Tater, Diego Frassinelli, Sabine Schulte im Walde Analyzing Uncertainty of LLM-as-a-Judge: Interval Evaluations with Conformal Prediction Huanxin Sheng, Xinyi Liu, Hangfeng He, Jieyu Zhao, Jian Kang

Senior Area Chair Highlights (3/9)

Calibrating Verbal Uncertainty as a Linear Feature to Reduce Hallucinations Ziwei Ji, Lei Yu, Yeskendir Koishekenov, Yejin Bang, Anthony Hartshorn, Alan Schelten, Cheng Zhang, Pascale Fung, Nicola Cancedda Quantifying Language Disparities in Multilingual Large Language Models Songbo Hu, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen Collab-Overcooked: Benchmarking and Evaluating Large Language Models as Collaborative Agents Haochen Sun, Shuwen Zhang, Lujie Niu, Lei Ren, Hao Xu, Hao Fu, Fangkun Zhao, Caixia Yuan, Xiaojie Wang Think in Safety: Unveiling and Mitigating Safety Alignment Collapse in Multimodal Large Reasoning Model Xinyue Lou, You Li, Jinan Xu, Xiangyu Shi, Chi Chen, Kaiyu Huang

Senior Area Chair Highlights (2/9)

PAFT: Prompt-Agnostic Fine-Tuning Chenxing Wei, Yao Shu, Mingwen Ou, Ying He, Fei Yu Constructions are Revealed in Word Distributions Joshua Rozner, Leonie Weissweiler, Kyle Mahowald, Cory Shain To Mask or to Mirror: Human-AI Alignment in Collective Reasoning Crystal Qian, Aaron T Parisi, Clémentine Bouleau, Vivian Tsai, Maël Lebreton, Lucas Dixon Whisper-UT: A Unified Translation Framework for Speech and Text Cihan Xiao, Matthew Wiesner, Debashish Chakraborty, Reno Kriz, Keith Cunningham, Kenton Murray, Kevin Duh, Luis Tavarez-Arce, Paul McNamee, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Finishing up with Senior Area Chair Highlights (1/9)

Randomly Removing 50% of Dimensions in Text Embeddings has Minimal Impact on Retrieval and Classification Tasks Sotaro Takeshita, Yurina Takeshita, Daniel Ruffinelli, Simone Paolo Ponzetto. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025.

and the People's Choice Award:

"Randomly Removing 50% of Dimensions in Text Embeddings has Minimal Impact on Retrieval and Classification Tasks"
by Sotaro Takeshita, Yurina Takeshita, Daniel Ruffinelli, and Simone Paolo Ponzetto
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

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Autoformalization in the Wild: Assessing LLMs on Real-World Mathematical Definitions Lan Zhang, Marco Valentino, Andre Freitas. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025.

Continuing with the Best Resource Paper:

"Autoformalization in the Wild: Assessing LLMs on Real-World Mathematical Definitions"
by Lan Zhang, Marco Valentino, and Andre Freitas
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

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Incredibly honored to serve as #EMNLP 2026 Program Chair along with @sunipadev.bsky.social and Hung-yi Lee, and General Chair @andre-t-martins.bsky.social. Looking forward to Budapest!!

(With thanks to Lisa Chuyuan Li who took this photo in Suzhou!)

An image of a conference presentation slide showing that EMNLP 2026 will be held October 24-29th in Budapest, with an audience below

🌉 #EMNLP2026 will be October 24-29th in Budapest! 🌉

Thanks all for a great conference, and see you at the next one!

Beyond Dynamic Quantization: An Efficient Static Hierarchical Mix-precision Framework for Near-Lossless LLM Compression Yi Zhang, Kai Zhang, Zheyang Li, Wenming Tan, Ye Ren, Jilin Hu. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track. 2025.

Best Industry Track Paper Award:

"Beyond Dynamic Quantization: An Efficient Static Hierarchical Mix-precision Framework for Near-Lossless LLM Compression"
by Yi Zhang, Kai Zhang, Zheyang Li, Wenming Tan, Ye Ren, and Jilin Hu
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-i...

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AccessEval: Benchmarking Disability Bias in Large Language Models Srikant Panda, Amit Agarwal, Hitesh Laxmichand Patel. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025.

Social Impact Award:

"AccessEval: Benchmarking Disability Bias in Large Language Models"
by Srikant Panda, Amit Agarwal, and Hitesh Laxmichand Patel
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

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InterIDEAS: Philosophical Intertextuality via LLMs Yue Yang, Yinzhi Xu, Chenghao Huang, JohnMichael Jurgensen, Han Hu, Hao Wang. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025.

Best Special Theme Paper:

"InterIDEAS: Philosophical Intertextuality via LLMs"
by Yue Yang, Yinzhi Xu, Chenghao Huang, JohnMichael Jurgensen, Han Hu, and Hao Wang
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

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Causal Interventions Reveal Shared Structure Across English Filler–Gap Constructions Sasha Boguraev, Christopher Potts, Kyle Mahowald. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025.

Outstanding paper (7/7):

"Causal Interventions Reveal Shared Structure Across English Filler–Gap Constructions"
by Sasha Boguraev, Christopher Potts, and Kyle Mahowald
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

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MiCRo: Mixture Modeling and Context-aware Routing for Personalized Preference Learning Jingyan Shen, Jiarui Yao, Rui Yang, Yifan Sun, Feng Luo, Rui Pan, Tong Zhang, Han Zhao. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025.

Outstanding paper (6/7):

"MiCRo: Mixture Modeling and Context-aware Routing for Personalized Preference Learning"
by Jingyan Shen, Jiarui Yao, Rui Yang, Yifan Sun, Feng Luo, Rui Pan, Tong Zhang, and Han Zhao
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

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Measuring Chain of Thought Faithfulness by Unlearning Reasoning Steps Martin Tutek, Fateme Hashemi Chaleshtori, Ana Marasovic, Yonatan Belinkov. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025.

Outstanding paper (5/7):

"Measuring Chain of Thought Faithfulness by Unlearning Reasoning Steps"
by Martin Tutek, Fateme Hashemi Chaleshtori, Ana Marasovic, and Yonatan Belinkov
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

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