content type eventpublished July 24, 2025
Apple is presenting new research at the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), which takes place in person from July 27 to August 1, in Vienna, Austria. ACL is a conference in the field of computational linguistics, covering a broad spectrum of diverse research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language. Below is the schedule of Apple-sponsored workshops and events at ACL 2025.
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Schedule
Stop by the Apple booth (Booth 6D in Hall 5X, Austria Center) in Vienna during exhibition hours. All times listed in CEST (Vienna time):
- Monday, July 28: 9:00 - 19:30
- Tuesday, July 29: 9:00 - 17:30
- Wednesday, July 30: 9:00 - 11:00
Schedule
Monday, July 28
- POSTER
- Hypernetworks for Personalizing ASR to Atypical Speech
- 11:00 - 12:30, Poster Session 1, Hall 4/5
- Max Müller-Eberstein (IT University of Copenhagen), Dianna Yee, Karren Yang, Gautam Varma Mantena, Colin Lea
- ORAL
- TiC-LM: A Web-Scale Benchmark for Time-Continual LLM Pretraining
- 14:00 - 15:30, Theme track: Generalisation of NLP models, Room 1.15-16
- Jeffrey Li (University of Washington), Mohammadreza Armandpour, Iman Mirzadeh, Sachin Mehta [Meta (work done while at Apple)], Vaishaal Shankar [Anthropic (work done while at Apple)], Raviteja Vemulapalli, Samy Bengio, Oncel Tuzel, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Hadi Pour Ansari, Fartash Faghri
- POSTER
- Analyzing the Effect of Linguistic Similarity on Cross-Lingual Transfer: Tasks and Input Representations Matter
- 18:00 - 19:30, Findings Posters - In-Person 1, Hall 4/5
- Verena Blaschke (LMU Munich), Masha Fedzechkina, Maartje ter Hoeve
- POSTER
- Eliciting In-context Retrieval and Reasoning for Long-Context Language Models
- 18:00 - 19:30, Findings Posters - In-Person 1, Hall 4/5
- Yifu Qiu, Varun Embar, Yizhe Zhang, Navdeep Jaitly, Shay Cohen (University of Edinburgh), Benjamin Han
- POSTER
- mRAKL: Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Graph Construction for Low-Resourced Languages
- 18:00 - 19:30, Findings Posters - Virtual, Gather
- Hellina Hailu Nigatu (UC Berkeley), Min Li, Maartje ter Hoeve, Saloni Potdar, Sara E. Chasins (UC Berkeley)
- POSTER
- Training Bilingual LMs with Data Constraints in the Targeted Language
- 18:00 - 19:30, Findings Posters - In-Person 1, Hall 4/5
- Skyler Seto, Maartje ter Hoeve, Richard He Bai, Natalie Schluter, David Grangier
Tuesday, July 29
- POSTER
- Beyond Text Compression: Evaluating Tokenizers Across Scales
- 10:30 - 12:00, Poster Session 2, Hall 4/5
- Jonas F. Lotz (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), António Vilarinho Lopes, Stephan Peitz, Hendra Setiawan, Leonardo Emili
- POSTER
- Can External Validation Tools Improve Annotation Quality for LLM-as-a-Judge?
- 10:30 - 12:00, Poster Session 2, Hall 4/5
- Arduin Findeis (Cambridge University), Floris Weers, Guoli Yin, Ke Ye, Ruoming Pang, Tom Gunter
- ORAL
- Do Large Language Models have an English Accent? Evaluating and Improving the Naturalness of Multilingual LLMs
- 14:00 - 15:30, Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP, Room 1.15-16
- Yanzhu Guo (Ecole Polytechnique), Simone Conia (Sapienza University of Rome), Zelin Zhou, Min Li, Saloni Potdar, Henry Xiao
- POSTER
- GRAMMA-MT: Improving Machine Translation with Grammar-Informed In-Context Learning
- 16:00 - 17:30, Poster Session 3, Hall 4/5
- Rita Ramos, Maartje ter Hoeve, Eva Chimoto, Natalie Schluter
Wednesday, July 30
- POSTER
- ASPERA: Assessing LLMs' Planning and Execution of Complex User Requests Ability
- 11:00 - 12:30, Poster Session 4, Hall 4/5
- Alex Coca (Cambridge University), Mark Gaynor, Zhenxing Zhang, Pete Boothroyd, Jianpeng Cheng, Andy Tseng, Héctor Martinez Alonso, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Anders Johannsen
- POSTER
- Revisiting Uncertainty Quantification Evaluation in Language Models: Spurious Interactions with Response Length Bias Results
- 11:00 - 12:30, Poster Session 4, Hall 4/5
- Andrea Santilli (Sapienza University of Rome), Adam Golinski, Michael Kirchhof, Federico Danieli, Arno Blaas, Miao Xiong (National University of Singapore), Luca Zappella, Sinead Williamson
- POSTER
- Steering into New Embedding Spaces: Analyzing Cross-Lingual Alignment Induced by Model Interventions in Multilingual Language Models
- 11:00 - 12:30, Poster Session 4, Hall 4/5
- Anirudh Sundar (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sinead Williamson, Katherine Metcalf, Barry-John Theobald, Skyler Seto, Masha Fedzechkina
- POSTER
- Improve Vision Language Model Chain-of-thought Reasoning
- 11:00 - 12:30, Virtual Presentation 4, Zoom
- Ruohong Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University), Bowen Zhang, Yanghao Li, Haotian Zhang, Zhiqing Sun (Carnegie Mellon University), Zhe Gan, Yinfei Yang, Ruoming Pang, Yiming Yang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Thursday, July 31
- WORKSHOP
- Findings of the IWSLT 2025 Evaluation Campaign
- 9:00 - 17:30, 22nd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, Hall N2
- Antonios Anastasopoulos (GMU), Luisa Bentivogli (FBK), Mauro Cettolo (FBK), Raj Dabre (IIT Madras), Marcello Federico (AWS), Marco Gaido (FBK), Chandresh Kumar Maurya (IIT Indore), John P. McCrae (U. Galway), Yasmin Moslem (Bering Lab), Kenton Murray (JHU), Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST), Matteo Negri (FBK), Jan Niehues (KIT), Atul Kr. Ojha (U. Galway), Sara Papi (FBK), Ashwin Sankar (IIT Madras), Beatrice Savoldi (FBK), Nivedita Sethiya (IIT Indore), Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker (Zoom), Brian Thompson (independent researcher), Marco Turchi (FBK), Alex Waibel (CMU), Vilém Zouhar (ETH)
- WORKSHOP
- Name Translation for Machine Translation
- TBD - TBD, SemEval Workshop, Hall M2
- Simone Conia, Min Li, Saloni Potdar, Roberto Navigli
Friday, August 1
- WORKSHOP
- On the Way to LLM Personalization: Learning to Memorize User Conversations
- TBD - TBD, Workshop on Large Language Model Memorization (L2M2) 2025, Room 1.31-32
- Lucie Charlotte Magister (University of Cambridge), Katherine Metcalf, Yizhe Zhang, Maartje ter Hoeve
- WORKSHOP
- Name Translation for Machine Translation
- TBD - TBD, SemEval Workshop, Hall M2
- Simone Conia, Min Li, Saloni Potdar, Roberto Navigli
Accepted Papers
AuthorsVerena Blaschke†‡§, Masha Fedzechkina, Maartje ter Hoeve
AuthorsAlexandru Coca*, Mark Gaynor, Zhenxing Zhang, Jianpeng Cheng*‡, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Pete Boothroyd, Héctor Martinez Alonso, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Anders Johannsen
AuthorsJonas F. Lotz†‡, António Vilarinho Lopes, Stephan Peitz, Hendra Setiawan, Leonardo Emili
AuthorsArduin Findeis*†, Floris Weers, Guoli Yin, Ke Ye, Ruoming Pang, Tom Gunter
AuthorsYanzhu Guo†‡§, Simone Conia¶, Zelin Zhou, Min Li, Saloni Potdar, Henry Xiao
Eliciting In-context Retrieval and Reasoning for Long-Context Language Models
Yifu Qiu, Varun Embar, Yizhe Zhang, Navdeep Jaitly, Shay Cohen (University of Edinburgh), Benjamin Han
Findings of the IWSLT 2025 Evaluation Campaign
Antonios Anastasopoulos (GMU), Luisa Bentivogli (FBK), Mauro Cettolo (FBK), Raj Dabre (IIT Madras), Marcello Federico (AWS), Marco Gaido (FBK), Chandresh Kumar Maurya (IIT Indore), John P. McCrae (U. Galway), Yasmin Moslem (Bering Lab), Kenton Murray (JHU), Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST), Matteo Negri (FBK), Jan Niehues (KIT), Atul Kr. Ojha (U. Galway), Sara Papi (FBK), Ashwin Sankar (IIT Madras), Beatrice Savoldi (FBK), Nivedita Sethiya (IIT Indore), Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker (Zoom), Brian Thompson (independent researcher), Marco Turchi (FBK), Alex Waibel (CMU), Vilém Zouhar (ETH)
GRAMMA-MT: Improving Machine Translation with Grammar-Informed In-Context Learning
Rita Ramos, Maartje ter Hoeve, Eva Chimoto, Natalie Schluter
AuthorsMax Müller-Eberstein*, Dianna Yee*, Karren Yang, Gautam Varma Mantena, Colin Lea
AuthorsRuohong Zhang†, Bowen Zhang, Yanghao Li, Haotian Zhang, Zhiqing Sun‡, Zhe Gan, Yinfei Yang, Ruoming Pang, Yiming Yang‡
AuthorsHellina Hailu Nigatu†, Min Li, Maartje ter Hoeve, Saloni Potdar, Sarah E. Chasins†
Name Translation for Machine Translation
Simone Conia, Min Li, Saloni Potdar, Roberto Navigli
AuthorsLucie Charlotte Magister*†, Katherine Metcalf, Yizhe Zhang, Maartje ter Hoeve
AuthorsAndrea Santilli†**, Adam Golinski, Michael Kirchhof, Federico Danieli, Arno Blaas, Miao Xiong‡**, Luca Zappella, Sinead Williamson
AuthorsAnirudh Sundar†‡§, Sinead Williamson, Katherine Metcalf, Barry Theobald, Skyler Seto, Masha Fedzechkina‡
AuthorsJeffrey Li*†§, Mohammadreza Armandpour†, Iman Mirzadeh, Sachin Mehta°, Vaishaal Shankar°, Raviteja Vemulapalli, Samy Bengio, Oncel Tuzel, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Hadi Pouransari, Fartash Faghri‡
Training Bilingual LMs with Data Constraints in the Targeted Language
Skyler Seto, Maartje ter Hoeve, Richard He Bai, Natalie Schluter, David Grangier
Acknowledgements
Natalie Schluter and Alex Papangelis are Senior Area Chairs for ACL 2025.
Byeongjoo Ahn, Maureen de Seyssel, Saloni Potdar and Chao Jiang are Area Chairs for ACL 2025.
Parnia Bahar, Qingqing Cao, Emily Cheng, Fartash Faghri, Yimai Fang, Kundan Krishna, Min Li, Xintong Li, Katherine Metcalf, Stephan Peitz, Harsh Sharma, Robin Schmidt, Barry Theobald, and Raviteja Vemulapalli are Reviewers for ACL 2025.
Matthias Sperber is a Workshop co-organizer for IWSLT.
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