Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025)

Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor 2025-11 Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China text conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 sem-2025-1 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.0 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.0/ ChengyuSTS: An Intrinsic Perspective on Mandarin Idiom Representation Le Qiu author Emmanuele Chersoni author Aline Villavicencio author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 qiu-etal-2025-chengyusts 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.1 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.1/ 2025-11 1 12 Bridging Information Gaps with Comprehensive Answers: Improving the Diversity and Informativeness of Follow-Up Questions Zhe Liu author Taekyu Kang author Haoyu Wang author Seyed Hossein Alavi author Vered Shwartz author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 liu-etal-2025-bridging 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.2 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.2/ 2025-11 13 30 Injecting Frame Semantics into Large Language Models via Prompt-Based Fine-Tuning Shahid Iqbal Rai author Danilo Croce author Roberto Basili author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 rai-etal-2025-injecting 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.3 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.3/ 2025-11 31 47 From Complex Word Identification to Substitution: Instruction-Tuned Language Models for Lexical Simplification Tonghui Han author Xinru Zhang author Yaxin Bi author Maurice D Mulvenna author Dongqiang Yang author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 han-etal-2025-complex 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.4 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.4/ 2025-11 48 58 Semantic Prosody in Machine Translation: the English-Chinese Case of Passive Structures Xinyue Ma author Pol Pastells author Mariona Taulé Delor author Mireia Farrús author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 ma-etal-2025-semantic 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.5 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.5/ 2025-11 59 69 Semantic Differentiation in Speech Emotion Recognition: Insights from Descriptive and Expressive Speech Roles Rongchen Guo author Vincent Francoeur author Isar Nejadgholi author Sylvain Gagnon author Miodrag Bolic author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 guo-etal-2025-semantic 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.6 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.6/ 2025-11 70 82 Generalizability of Media Frames: Corpus creation and analysis across countries Agnese Daffara author Sourabh Dattawad author Sebastian Padó author Tanise Ceron author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 daffara-etal-2025-generalizability 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.7 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.7/ 2025-11 83 99 Cross-Lingual Extractive Question Answering with Unanswerable Questions Yuval Gorodissky author Elior Sulem author Dan Roth author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 gorodissky-etal-2025-cross 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.8 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.8/ 2025-11 100 121 Evaluating Compositional Generalisation in VLMs and Diffusion Models Beth Pearson author Bilal Boulbarss author Michael Wray author Martha Lewis author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 pearson-etal-2025-evaluating 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.9 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.9/ 2025-11 122 133 On the Distinctive Co-occurrence Characteristics of Antonymy Zhihan Cao author Hiroaki Yamada author Takenobu Tokunaga author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 cao-etal-2025-distinctive 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.10 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.10/ 2025-11 134 141 Evaluating Textual and Visual Semantic Neighborhoods of Abstract and Concrete Concepts Sven Naber author Diego Frassinelli author Sabine Schulte im Walde author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 naber-etal-2025-evaluating 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.11 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.11/ 2025-11 142 151 AmbiStory: A Challenging Dataset of Lexically Ambiguous Short Stories Janosch Gehring author Michael Roth author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 gehring-roth-2025-ambistory 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.12 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.12/ 2025-11 152 171 WiC Evaluation in Galician and Spanish: Effects of Dataset Quality and Composition Marta Vázquez Abuín author Marcos Garcia author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 abuin-garcia-2025-wic 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.13 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.13/ 2025-11 172 178 Math Natural Language Inference: this should be easy! Valeria de Paiva author Qiyue Gao author Hai Hu author Pavel Kovalev author Yikang Liu author Lawrence S Moss author Zhiheng Qian author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 de-paiva-etal-2025-math 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.14 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.14/ 2025-11 179 188 All Entities are Not Created Equal: Examining the Long Tail for Ultra-Fine Entity Typing Advait Deshmukh author Ashwin Umadi author Dananjay Srinivas author Maria Leonor Pacheco author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 deshmukh-etal-2025-entities 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.15 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.15/ 2025-11 189 201 When Does Meaning Backfire? Investigating the Role of AMRs in NLI Junghyun Min author Xiulin Yang author Shira Wein author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 min-etal-2025-meaning 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.16 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.16/ 2025-11 202 211 Explanations explained. 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https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.20/ 2025-11 253 266 Modeling Language Learning in Corrective Feedback Interactions Juan Luis Castro-Garcia author Parisa Kordjamshidi author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 castro-garcia-kordjamshidi-2025-modeling 10.18653/v1/2025.starsem-1.21 https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.21/ 2025-11 267 279 Relation-Aware Prompting Makes Large Language Models Effective Zero-shot Relation Extractors Mahdi Rahimi author Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru author Mihai Surdeanu author 2025-11 text Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) Lea Frermann editor Mark Stevenson editor Association for Computational Linguistics Suzhou, China conference publication 979-8-89176-340-1 rahimi-etal-2025-relation 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