Preliminary Time Schedule

The final time schedule with exact time slots for keynotes, poster sessions and oral sessions will be available in August.

Sessions

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Applications

• Generating Search-Engine-Optimized Headlines for Sports News
  Frank Zalkow, Benedikt Schäfer, Thomas Moissl, Jonas Bücherl, Kerstin Markl, Sebastian Bothe, Francois Duchateau, Julia Dollase, Patric Kabus, Daniel Steinigen, Oliver Schmitt, Fabian Küch
• Anon2025: A German Historical Newspaper Dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking
  Sophie Schneider, Ulrike Förstel, Kai Labusch, Jörg Lehmann, Clemens Neudecker
• Adaption and Evaluation of Generative Large Language Models for German Medical Information Extraction
  Sören Spiegel, Seid Muhie Yimam, Philipp Breitfeld, Frank Ückert

Discourse and Semantics

• Function Words as Stable Features for German Opinion Articles Classification
  Amelie Schmidt-Colberg, Simon Burkard, Anne Grohnert, Michael John
• Efficient and Effective Coreference Resolution for German
  Fynn Petersen-Frey, Hans Ole Hatzel, Chris Biemann
• LLM-based Classification of Grounding Acts in German
  Milena Belosevic, Hendrik Buschmeier

Hate Speech

• Conditioning Large Language Models on Legal Systems? Detecting Punishable Hate Speech
  Florian Ludwig, Frederike Zufall, Torsten Zesch
• FASCIST-O-METER: Classifier for Neo-fascist Discourse Online
  Rudy Alexandro Garrido Veliz, Martin Semmann, Chris Biemann, Seid Muhie Yimam
• HICC: A Dataset for German Hate Speech in Conversational Context
  Lars Schmid, Pius von Däniken, Patrick Giedemann, Don Tuggener, Judith Bühler, Maria Kamenowski, Katja Girschick, Dirk Baier, Mark Cieliebak

Methods

• LRMs are not thinking straight: Unreliability of thinking trajectories
  Jhouben Cuesta-Ramirez, Samuel Beaussant, Mehdi Mounsif
• Learn to pick the winner: Black-box ensembling for textual and visual question answering
  Yuxi Xia, Klim Zaporojets, Benjamin Roth
• Surprisal in Action: A Comparative Study of LDA and LSA for Keyword Extraction
  J. Nathanael Philipp, Max Kölbl, Michael Richter

New Resources

• SocCor: A Multimodal-based Multilingual Soccer Corpus for Text Data Analytics
  Paul Löhr, Jannik Strötgen
• Predicting Functional Content Zones in German Source-Dependent Argumentative Essays: Experiments on a Novel Dataset
  Xiaoyu Bai, Manfred Stede
• A Survey of Idiom Datasets for Psycholinguistic and Computational Research
  Michael Flor, Xinyi Liu, Anna Feldman

Translation and Multilinguality

• Evaluating the Feasibility of Using ChatGPT for Cross-cultural Survey Translation
  Danielly Sorato, Diana Zavala-Rojas
• Information Divergence in Translation and Interpreting: Findings from Same-Source Texts
  Maria Kunilovskaya, Sharid Loáiciga, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski
• SEAS: Sentence Extraction and Alignment from Subtitles
  Josh Stephenson, Libby Barak

Poster 1

• German Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis in the Wild: B2B Dataset Creation and Cross-Domain Evaluation
  Jakob Fehle, Niklas Donhauser, Udo Kruschwitz, Nils Constantin Hellwig, Christian Wolff
• Vague, Incomplete, Subjective, and Uncertain Information in Art Provenance
  Fabio Mariani
• Automatic Creation of Marginalia
  Aaron Lang, Robin Jegan, Andreas Henrich
• Localization of English Affective Narrative Generation to German
  Johannes Schäfer, Sabine Weber, Roman Klinger
• MultimodalPreProCessor: New Horizons for Distributed Microservice-Oriented Processing of Corpora using UIMA
  Daniel Bundan, Giuseppe Abrami, Alexander Mehler
• Systematic Review of Linguistic Characteristics in Profiling and Automated Detection of Autistic Speech
  Charlotte Bellinghausen, Andreas Riedel
• More than the Sum of Their Words: Generating and Contrasting Large Linguistic Networks
  Hanna Schmück
• Towards a Cross-Dialectal Dictionary for Low German (Low Saxon)
  Christian Chiarcos, Janine Siewert, Tabea Gröger, Christian Fäth
• Rapid Text Segmentation: Crowd-sourcing Lay Intuition about Text Structure in the Browser
  Florian Frenken
• Applying an Information-theoretic Approach for Automatic Identification of German Multi-word Expressions
  Sergei Bagdasarov, Elke Teich

Poster 2

• Hit or Be Hit: Tests of (Pre)Compositional Abilities in Vision and Language Models
  Mădălina Zgreabăn, Albert Gatt, Pablo Mosteiro
• When AI Gets It Wrong: Exploring the Educational Value of Flawed Transcriptions in Language Pedagogy
  Anna Malin Gerke
• Hybrid Feature-Embedding Models for Robust AI Text Detection
  Kasper Thomas Gartside Knudsen, Christian Hardmeier
• Advancing German Language Modelling - Transparent Models and Comprehensive Benchmarks
  Jan Pfister, Julia Wunderle, Anton Ehrmanntraut, Fotis Jannidis, Andreas Hotho
• Using LLMs for experimental stimulus pretests in linguistics. Evidence from semantic associations between words and social gender
  Christian Lang, Franziska Kretzschmar, Sandra Hansen
• Developmentally plausible pretraining, now also auf Deutsch: a BabyLM Dataset for German
  Bastian Bunzeck, Daniel Duran, Sina Zarrieß
• PETapter: Leveraging PET-style classification heads for modular few-shot parameter-efficient fine-tuning
  Jonas Rieger, Mattes Ruckdeschel, Gregor Wiedemann
• Large Language Model Data Generation for Enhanced Intent Recognition in German Speech
  Theresa Pekarek Rosin, Burak Can Kaplan, Stefan Wermter
• Mapping the Intertextual Networks of the Tang Liu Dian through Representation Learning and Large Language Models
  Yihan Sheng
• Detecting Sexism and Its Severity in German Online Comments: Modeling Annotation Subjectivity with BERT and mBERT
  Melanie Woodrow, Margot Mieskes