Model Comparison for Kazakh Semantic Reuse Detection Across Pairwise, News, and Long-Document Evaluation Bakhyt Bakiyev, Shuo Wang and Mubashir Ali
Do Physiological Signals Improve Both Generalization and Personal Perception of Sexism in Memes? Iván Arcos and Paolo Rosso
Privacy-Preserving NLP for a Low-Resource Language: Benchmarking LLM-Based PII Anonymization in Slovene Nenad Jakovchevski and Matej Martinc
KangarooBench: A Native German Benchmark for Evaluating the Modality Gap in Visual Mathematics Dennis Hug, René Wolf and Philippe Thomas
Evaluating Pre-Training Objectives for TITE Ferdinand Schlatt, Rayk Kretzschmar and Matthias Hagen
Category-Conditioned Persona Retrieval for Multi-Session Dialogue: A Method and a Gold-Annotation-Compatible Retrieval Metric Konstantin Zaitsev
Query Understanding with Large Language Models Eric Oliver Schmidt, Matthias Hagen and Maik Fröbe
Scope Matters: A Hallucination-Aware Evaluation of Retrieval Strategies for Multilingual RAG Gadha Saji Menon, Swathi Jayakumar, Varalekshmy M Mohan, Sachin Kurup, Veena G and Vani Kanjirangat
Named Entity Masking for De-Biasing Text Classification: Experiments with German Datasets Daphne Kiok, Khushi Pitroda, Aenne Knierim and Thomas Mandl
A Controlled Study of Evidence Quality in LLM-Based Numerical Claim Verification Quy Thanh Le, Ismail Badache and Maamar El Amine Hamri
Are Lexical Bindings Important for SPLADE? Ferdinand Schlatt, Sebastian Harm and Matthias Hagen
Short Papers
Contrastive Learning for Authorship Verification Peter Kirby
A corpus for evaluating neutrality in political biographies on Wikipedia: NeutralWikiPol-fr Victor Planche
Past, Present, and Future Track
Generative AI-based Uncertainty-aware IR Evaluation with Distributional Evaluation Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Guglielmo Faggioli, Stefano Marchesin and Simone Merlo
Best of Labs 2025
Lexical Simplification for Scientific Texts: Revisiting SARI in the Era of Modern LLMs Nico Hofmann, Julian Dauenhauer, Nils Ole Dietzler, Idehen Daniel Idahor and Christin Katharina Kreutz
Trusting Gut Instincts: A Fine-Grained Error Analysis of Transformer-Based Structured Data Extraction from Gut-Brain Axis Publications Lasse Ryge Andersen, Mikkel Hagerup Dolmer, Marius Ihlen Gardshodn, Juan Manuel Rodriguez and Daniele Dell’Aglio
Scientific Claim–Source Retrieval Revisited: A Comparative Study of Style Transfer and Re-Ranking Tobias Schreieder, Harsh Khandelwal, Yu-Ling Zhong and Michael Färber
DS@GT ARC at LongEval: Evaluating Temporal Performance in Web Search Systems and Topics with Two-Stage Retrieval Anthony Miyaguchi, Imran Afrulbasha and Aleksandar Pramov
DS@GT ARC at Touché: Large Language Models for Retrieval-Augmented Debate Anthony Miyaguchi and Conor Johnston
Pun Intended: Multi-Agent Translation of Wordplay with Contrastive Learning and Phonetic-Semantic Embeddings Russell Taylor, Benajmin Herbert and Michael Sana