Computational Linguistics Journal

Our Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Wei Lu, presents a new vision for the journal in the editorial 'Opening a New Chapter for Computational Linguistics', marking a forward-looking transition as the journal enters its second half-century. Read: direct.mit.edu/coli/article/5…

Do LLMs have personalities? This paper introduces LMLPA, a framework for assessing linguistic personalities of LLMs using adapted Big Five inventories + AI raters, validated for reliability and consistency. 📄 Read in Computational Linguistics: direct.mit.edu/coli/article/5…

Evaluating NLG remains challenging — even with LLMs. This survey reviews LLM-based evaluation methods: prompting, fine-tuning, and human–LLM collaboration, and outlines key open problems. 📄 Read in Computational Linguistics: direct.mit.edu/coli/article/5…

LLMs can generate fluent text — but can they twist your tongue? TwisterLister generates phoneme-aware tongue twisters, with a 17k-example dataset and phonologically constrained decoding. 📄 Read the paper in Computational Linguistics: direct.mit.edu/coli/article/5…

Can LLMs learn possible human languages but struggle with impossible ones? Kallini et al. claimed evidence, but Hunter argues their key experiment conflates factors — the core question remains open. 📄 Read the article in Computational Linguistics: direct.mit.edu/coli/article/5…

Even state-of-the-art MT systems struggle with ambiguous words — especially rare senses. DiBiMT is a new fully human-curated benchmark across 8 language pairs to study disambiguation bias in MT. 📄 Read the paper in Computational Linguistics: direct.mit.edu/coli/article/5…

Congratulations to this year's deserving winner, whose dedication has significantly shaped our field! Their service is an inspiration to us all. ✨ #ACL2025NLP #DistinguishedServiceAward #CompLing #Community

📚The dissertation will be published in the CL journal. 💬Catch the talk right after the award presentation! #NLProc Congratulations to all these outstanding dissertations in NLP and CL — the future of #NLProc is in excellent hands! 🙌 @CompLingJournal

📚Tom Sherborne: Modeling Cross-lingual Transfer for Semantic Parsing Sherborne’s dissertation developsmethods for cross-lingual transfer into low-resource languages, demonstrating their effectiveness in the context of semantic parsing for integration with database APIs.

📚Ashish Sharma: Human-AI Collaboration to Support Mental Health and Well-Being Sharma’s dissertation pushes the boundaries of human-AI collaboration along with research in empathy detection and generation, advancing the application of NLP to mental health

📚 Manling Li: Event-Centric Multimodal Knowledge Acquisition Li’s dissertation offers a comprehensive framework for multimodal event extraction and reasoning, advancing important tasks such as video question answering and future event prediction

ACL inaugurates the ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award! Instrumental for launching this inaugural prize is the Computational Linguistics Journal @CompLingJournal, with support of the ACL Exec. #ACL #CLJournal #ACL2025NLP  @CompLingJournal

🏆 Who will take home the very first award? The inaugural ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award will be revealed Monday, July 28 (Day 1, 4pm) at #ACL2025. Chaired by Kathy McKeown. Any predictions? 🤔🔥

10. Socially Aware Language Technologies: Perspectives and Practices (Last Words) By: Diyi Yang, Dirk Hovy, David Jurgens, Barbara Plank direct.mit.edu/coli/article/5…

9. LLM-based NLG Evaluation: Current Status and Challenges (Survey) By: Mingqi Gao, Xinyu Hu, Xunjian Yin, Jie Ruan, Xiao Pu, Xiaojun Wan direct.mit.edu/coli/article/5…

Volume 51, Issue 2 📣 Access it at direct.mit.edu/coli/issue/51/2 The articles included in this issue are listed in the comments below. 🧵