Austria

Open-access corpora are essential for advancing natural language processing (NLP) and computational social science (CSS). However,
large-scale resources for German remain limited, restricting research on linguistic trends and societal issues such as gender bias. We
present taz2024full, the largest publicly available corpus of German newspaper articles to date, comprising over 1.8 million texts from
taz, spanning 1980 to 2024.

As a demonstration of the corpus’s utility for bias and discrimination research, we analyse gender representation across four decades of
reporting. We find a consistent overrepresentation of men, but also a gradual shift toward more balanced coverage in recent years. Using
a scalable, structured analysis pipeline, we provide a foundation for studying actor mentions, sentiment, and linguistic framing in German
journalistic texts.

The corpus supports a wide range of applications, from diachronic language analysis to critical media studies, and is freely available to
foster inclusive and reproducible research in German-language NLP.

ACL 2025

taz2024full: Analysing German Newspapers for Gender Bias and Discrimination across Decades

newspaper corpus

gender

german

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This paper presents the Long Context and Form Output (LCFO) benchmark, a novel evaluation framework for assessing gradual summarization and summary expansion capabilities across diverse domains. LCFO consists of long input documents (5k words average length), each of which comes with three summaries of different lengths (20%, 10%, and 5% of the input text), as well as approximately 15 questions and answers (QA) related to the input content. Notably, LCFO also provides alignments between specific QA pairs and corresponding summaries in 7 domains.

The primary motivation behind providing summaries of different lengths is to establish a controllable framework for generating long texts from shorter inputs, i.e. summary expansion. %, enabling a more nuanced evaluation of summary expansion capabilities. To establish an evaluation metric framework for summarization and summary expansion, we provide human evaluation scores for human-generated outputs, as well as results from various state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs).

GPT-4o-mini achieves best human scores among automatic systems in both summarization and summary expansion tasks (+10% and +20%, respectively). It even surpasses human output quality in the case of short summaries (+7%). Overall automatic metrics achieve low correlations with human evaluation scores (~ 0.4) but moderate correlation on specific evaluation aspects such as fluency and attribution (~ 0.6).

LCFO: Long Context and Long Form Output Dataset and Benchmarking

We introduce the first highly multilingual speech and American Sign Language (ASL) comprehension dataset by extending BELEBELE. Our dataset covers 74 spoken languages at the intersection of BELEBELE and FLEURS, and one sign language (ASL). We evaluate 2M-BELEBELE dataset for both 5-shot and zero-shot settings and across languages, the speech comprehension accuracy is ≈ 10% average lower compared to reading comprehension.

2M-BELEBELE: Highly Multilingual Speech and American Sign Language Comprehension Dataset Download PDF

Variation in language is ubiquitous and often systematically linked to regional, social, and contextual factors. Tokenizers split texts into smaller units and might behave differently for less common linguistic forms. This might affect downstream LLM performance differently on two types of tasks: Tasks where the model should be robust to language variation (e.g., for semantic tasks like NLI, labels do not depend on whether a text uses British or American spelling) and tasks where the model should be sensitive to language variation (e.g., for form-based tasks like authorship verification, labels depend on whether a text uses British or American spelling). We pre-train BERT base models for the popular Byte-Pair Encoding algorithm to investigate how key algorithmic design choices impact downstream models' performances: fitting corpus, pre-tokenizer and vocabulary size. We find that the best tokenizer varies on the two task types---with the pre-tokenizer having the biggest impact on performance. Further, we introduce a new approach to estimate tokenizer impact on downstream LLM performance, showing significant improvement over techniques like Rényi efficiency. We encourage more work on language variation and its relation to tokenizers and thus LLM performance.

Tokenization is Sensitive to Language Variation

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results across a broad array of tasks, yet their capacity for complex, domain-specific mathematical reasoning—particularly in wireless communications—remains underexplored. In this work, we introduce WirelessMathBench, a novel benchmark specifically designed to evaluate LLMs on mathematical modeling challenges to wireless communications engineering. Our benchmark consists of 587 meticulously curated questions sourced from 40 state-of-the-art research papers, encompassing a diverse spectrum of tasks ranging from basic multiple-choice questions to complex equation completion tasks, including both partial and full completions, all of which rigorously adhere to physical and dimensional constraints. Through extensive experimentation with leading LLMs, we observe that while many models excel in basic recall tasks, their performance degrades significantly when reconstructing partially or fully obscured equations, exposing fundamental limitations in current LLMs. Even DeepSeek-R1, the best performer on our benchmark, achieves an average accuracy of only 38.05%, with a mere 7.83% success rate in full equation completion. By publicly releasing WirelessMathBench along with the evaluation toolkit, we aim to advance the development of more robust, domain-aware LLMs for wireless system analysis and broader engineering applications.

WirelessMathBench: A Mathematical Modeling Benchmark for LLMs in Wireless Communications

Multi-Objective Alignment (MOA) aims to align LLMs' responses with multiple human preference objectives, with Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) emerging as a prominent approach. However, we find that DPO-based MOA approaches suffer from widespread preference conflicts in the data, where different objectives favor different responses. This results in conflicting optimization directions, hindering the optimization on the Pareto Front. To address this, we propose to construct Pareto-optimal responses to resolve preference conflicts. To efficiently obtain and utilize such responses, we propose a self-improving DPO framework that enables LLMs to self-generate and select Pareto-optimal responses for self-supervised preference alignment. Extensive experiments on two datasets demonstrate the superior Pareto Front achieved by our framework compared to various baselines\footnote{Code is available at \url{http://anonymous.4open.science/r/SIPO-3FE6}.

Self-Improvement Towards Pareto Optimality: Mitigating Preference Conflicts in Multi-Objective Alignment

Web browsers are a portal to the internet, where much of human activity is undertaken. Thus, there has been significant research work in AI agents that interact with the internet through web browsing. However, there is also another interface designed specifically for machine interaction with online content: application programming interfaces (APIs). In this paper we ask - *what if we were to take tasks traditionally tackled by Browsing Agents, and give AI agents access to APIs*? To do so, we propose two varieties of agents: (1) an API-calling agent that attempts to perform online tasks through APIs only, similar to traditional coding agents, and (2) a Hybrid Agent that can interact with online data through both web browsing and APIs. In experiments on WebArena, a widely-used and realistic benchmark for web navigation tasks, we find that API-Based Agents outperform web Browsing Agents. Hybrid Agents out-perform both others nearly uniformly across tasks, resulting in a more than 20.0% absolute improvement over web browsing alone, achieving a success rate of 35.8%, the SOTA performance among task-agnostic agents. These results strongly suggest that when APIs are available, they present an attractive alternative to relying on web browsing alone.

Beyond Browsing: API-Based Web Agents

Visuals are valuable tools in teaching math word problems (MWPs), helping young learners interpret textual descriptions into mathematical expressions before solving them. However, creating such visuals is labor-intensive and we lack automated methods. In this paper, we present Math2Visual, an automatic framework for generating pedagogically meaningful visuals from MWP text descriptions. Math2Visual leverages a pre-defined visual language and a structured design space for visuals, informed by math teachers, to effectively capture the essential mathematical relationships within MWPs. Using Math2Visual, we construct an annotated dataset of 1,903 visuals and evaluate Text-to-Image (TTI) models in generating visuals that align with our design. We further fine-tune various TTI models with our dataset, demonstrating improvements in educational visual generation. Our work establishes a new benchmark for automated pedagogical meaningful visual generation and offers insights into the challenge of generating multimodal educational content.

Math2Visual: A Framework for Generating Pedagogically Meaningful Visuals for Teaching Math Word Problems

Large language models (LLMs) enabled dialogue systems have become one of the central modes in human-machine interaction, which bring about vast amounts of conversation logs and increasing demand for dialogue generation. The dialogue's life-cycle spans from Prelude through Interlocution to Epilogue, encompassing rich dialogue elements. Despite large volumes of dialogue-related studies, there is a lack of systematic investigation into the dialogue stages to frame benchmark construction that covers comprehensive dialogue elements. This hinders the precise modeling, generation and assessment of LLMs-based dialogue systems. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we introduce a new research task—Dialogue Element MOdeling, including Element Awareness and Dialogue Agent Interaction and propose a novel benchmark, DEMO, designed for a comprehensive dialogue modeling and assessment. On this basis, we further build the DEMO agent with the adept ability to model dialogue elements via imitation learning. Extensive experiments on DEMO indicate that current representative LLMs still have considerable potential for enhancement, and our DEMO agent performs well in both dialogue element modeling and out-of-domain tasks.

DEMO: Reframing Dialogue Interaction with Fine-grained Element Modeling

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely applied in decision making, but their deployment is threatened by jailbreak attacks, where adversarial users manipulate model behavior to bypass safety measures. Existing defense mechanisms, such as safety fine-tuning and model editing, either require extensive parameter modifications or lack precision, leading to performance degradation on general tasks, which is unsuitable to post-deployment safety alignment. To address these challenges, we propose DELMAN (**D**ynamic **E**diting for **L**L**M**s J**A**ilbreak Defe**N**se), a novel approach leveraging direct model editing for precise, dynamic protection against jailbreak attacks. DELMAN directly updates a minimal set of relevant parameters to neutralize harmful behaviors while preserving the model's utility. To avoid triggering a safe response in benign context, we incorporate KL-divergence regularization to ensure the updated model remains consistent with the original model when processing benign queries. Experimental results demonstrate that DELMAN outperforms baseline methods in mitigating jailbreak attacks while preserving the model’s utility, and adapts seamlessly to new attack instances, providing a practical and efficient solution for post-deployment model protection.

DELMAN: Dynamic Defense Against Large Language Model Jailbreaking with Model Editing

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capability in solving mathematical problems. However, existing approaches primarily focus on improving the quality of correct training data, e.g., distilling high-quality correct solutions from advanced models, neglecting the value contained in error data, potentially hindering the model’s reflective ability. Though some studies attempted to leverage error data, they often involve complex mechanisms, such as Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to explore error nodes.In this work, we propose to enhance LLM’s reasoning ability by Learning from Errors for MatheMatical Advancement (LEMMA). LEMMA constructs data consists of an incorrect solution with an erroneous step and a reflection connection to a correct solution for fine-tuning. Specifically, we systematically analyze the model-generated error types and introduce an _error-type grounded mistake augmentation_ method to collect diverse and representative errors. Correct solutions are either from fixing the errors or generating a fresh start. By fine-tuning on the constructed dataset, the model is able to _self-correct errors autonomously_ within the generation process _without relying on external critique models_. Experimental results demonstrate that LEMMA achieves significant performance improvements over other strong models with less than 90k data.

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