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In recent years, research on sign languages has attracted increasing attention in the NLP community and requires more effort from a linguistic perspective. In this paper, we explore coreference resolution in German Sign Language (GSL) primarily through gloss-based analysis. Specifically, in GSL glosses, we conduct a linguistic analysis of coreference, add coreference annotations based on one video, and evaluate the ability of two large language models to resolve coreference. We gain valuable insights into coreference resolution in GSL, which pave the way for future research.

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Exploring Coreference Resolution in Glosses of German Sign Language

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EMNLP 2025 will be held in Suzhou, China from November 5th to November 9th, 2025.

This study introduces a new ASR-transcribed coreference corpus for French and explores the transferability of coreference resolution models from human-transcribed to ASR-transcribed data. Given the challenges posed by differences in text characteristics and errors introduced by ASR systems, we evaluate model performance using newly constructed parallel human-ASR silver training and gold validation datasets. Our findings show a decline in performance on ASR data for models trained on manual transcriptions. However, combining silver ASR data with gold manual data enhances model robustness. Through detailed error analysis, we observe that models emphasizing recall are more resilient to ASR-induced errors compared to those focusing on precision. The resulting ASR corpus, along with all related materials, is freely available under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license at: https://github.com/ina-foss/french-asr-coreference.

Impact of ASR Transcriptions on French Spoken Coreference Resolution

The paper presents an overview of the fourth edition of the Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution, organized as part of the CODI-CRAC 2025 workshop. As in the previous editions, participants were challenged to develop systems that identify mentions and cluster them according to identity coreference. A key innovation of this year's task was the introduction of a dedicated Large Language Model (LLM) track, featuring a simplified plaintext format designed to be more suitable for LLMs than the original CoNLL-U representation. The task also expanded its coverage with three new datasets in two additional languages, using version 1.3 of CorefUD -- a harmonized multilingual collection of 22 datasets in 17 languages. In total, nine systems participated, including four LLM-based approaches (two fine-tuned and two using few-shot adaptation). While traditional systems still kept the lead, LLMs showed clear potential, suggesting they may soon challenge established approaches in future editions.

Findings of the Fourth Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution: Can LLMs Dethrone Traditional Approaches?

Culturally grounded commonsense reasoning is underexplored in low-resource languages due to scarce data and costly native annotation. We test whether large language models (LLMs) can generate culturally nuanced narratives for such settings. Focusing on Javanese and Sundanese, we compare three data creation strategies: (1) LLM-assisted stories prompted with cultural cues, (2) machine translation from Indonesian benchmarks, and (3) native-written stories. Human evaluation finds LLM stories match natives on cultural fidelity but lag in coherence and correctness. We fine-tune models on each dataset and evaluate on a human-authored test set for classification and generation. LLM-generated data yields higher downstream performance than machine-translated and Indonesian human-authored training data. We release a high-quality benchmark of culturally grounded commonsense stories in Javanese and Sundanese to support future work.

Culturally-Nuanced Story Generation for Reasoning in Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Javanese and Sundanese

We present an uncertainty‐based approach to Partial Diacritization (PD) for Arabic text. We evaluate three uncertainty metrics for this task: Softmax Response, BALD via MC-dropout, and Mahalanobis Distance. We further introduce a lightweight Confident Error Regularizer to improve model calibration. Our preliminary exploration illustrates possible ways to use uncertainty estimation for selectively retaining or discarding diacritics in Arabic text with an analysis of performance in terms of correlation with diacritic error rates. For instance, the model can be used to detect words with high diacritic error rates which tend to have higher uncertainty scores at inference time. On the Tashkeela dataset, the method maintains low Diacritic Error Rate while reducing the amount of visible diacritics on the text by up to 50% with thresholding-based retention.

Uncertainty-driven Partial Diacritization for Arabic Text

Autoregressive language models achieve strong performance across a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, yet their uncertainty estimates remain poorly understood, particularly during training. Prior work has primarily evaluated calibration and out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness at the final checkpoint, overlooking the dynamics that unfold earlier. We introduce a phase-based framework for tracking uncertainty metrics—including expected calibration error (ECE) and Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence—across distinct stages of training. Using GPT-2 models trained across multiple random seeds, we find that uncertainty dynamics follow a consistent set of phases: models begin conservative and relatively well calibrated, but later phases introduce a paradoxical decoupling where confidence increases even as calibration worsens, especially under distribution shift. This paradox implies that the final checkpoint is not always the most reliable for deployment and motivates phase-aware strategies such as dynamic checkpoint selection or targeted calibration. Our findings highlight that uncertainty should be understood as a training-dependent property rather than a static one, opening new directions for scaling this framework to larger models, tasks, and distribution shift scenarios.

Phases of Uncertainty: Confidence–Calibration Dynamics in Language Model Training

How do Large Language Models understand moral dimensions compared to humans?

This first comprehensive large-scale Bayesian evaluation of leading language models provides the answer. In contrast to prior approaches based on deterministic ground truth (obtained via majority or inclusion consensus), we obtain the labels by modelling annotators' disagreement to capture both aleatoric uncertainty (inherent human disagreement) and epistemic uncertainty (model domain sensitivity).

We evaluated Claude Sonnet 4, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama 4 Maverick across 250K+ annotations from nearly 700 annotators in 100K+ texts spanning social networks, news, and discussion forums. Our GPU-optimized Bayesian framework processed 1M+ model queries, revealing that AI models generally rank among the top 25\% of annotators in terms of balanced accuracy, substantially better than average humans.

Importantly, we find that AI produces far fewer false negatives than humans, highlighting their sensitive moral detection capabilities.

Beyond Human Judgment: A Bayesian Evaluation of LLMs' Moral Values Understanding

Uncertainty awareness is essential for large language models (LLMs), particularly in safety-critical domains such as medicine where erroneous or hallucinatory outputs can cause harm. Yet most evaluations remain centered on accuracy, offering limited insight into model confidence and its relation to abstention. In this work, we present preliminary experiments that combine conformal prediction with abstention-augmented and perturbed variants of medical QA datasets. Our early results suggest a positive link between uncertainty estimates and abstention decisions, with this effect amplified under higher difficulty and adversarial perturbations. These findings highlight abstention as a practical handle for probing model reliability in medical QA.

Do Large Language Models Know When Not to Answer in Medical QA?

Understanding uncertainty in large language models remains a fundamental challenge, particularly in creative tasks where multiple valid outputs exist. We present a geometric framework using credal sets—convex hulls of probability distributions—to quantify and decompose uncertainty in neural text generation, calibrated against human creative variation. Analyzing 500 creative writing prompts from the \dataset{} dataset with 10 unique human continuations each, we evaluate four language models across five decoding strategies, generating 100,000 stories. Our credal set analysis reveals substantial gaps in capturing human creative variation, with the best model-human calibration reaching only 0.434 (Gemma-2B with temperature 0.7). We decompose total uncertainty into \textit{epistemic} and \textit{aleatoric} components, finding that the choice of decoding strategy contributes 39.4\% to 72.0\% of total epistemic uncertainty. Model scale shows weak correlation with calibration quality and no significant difference exists between base and instruction-tuned models in calibration quality. Our geometric framework provides actionable insights for improving generation systems for human-AI creative alignment. We release our complete experimental framework at \url{https://github.com/EstebanGarces/uncertainHuman}.

The Geometry of Creative Variability: How Credal Sets Expose Calibration Gaps in Language Models

Reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for ensuring trustworthy downstream use of large language models, especially when they are deployed in decision-support and other knowledge-intensive applications. Model certainty can be estimated from token logits, with derived probability and entropy values offering insight into performance on the prompt task. However, this approach may be inadequate for probabilistic scenarios, where the probabilities of token outputs are expected to align with the theoretical probabilities of the possible outcomes. We investigate the relationship between token certainty and alignment with theoretical probability distributions in well-defined probabilistic scenarios. Using GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-Chat, we evaluate model responses to ten prompts involving probability (e.g., roll a six-sided die), both with and without explicit probability cues in the prompt (e.g., roll a fair six-sided die). We measure two dimensions: (1) response validity with respect to scenario constraints, and (2) alignment between token-level output probabilities and theoretical probabilities. Our results indicate that, while both models achieve perfect in-domain response accuracy across all prompt scenarios, their token-level probability and entropy values consistently diverge from the corresponding theoretical distributions.

Certain but not Probable? Differentiating Certainty from Probability in LLM Token Outputs for Probabilistic Scenarios

Model-internal uncertainty metrics like perplexity potentially offer low-cost signals for Machine Translation Quality Estimation (TQE). This paper analyses perplexity in the No Language Left Behind (NLLB) multilingual model. We quantify a significant model-human perplexity gap, where the model is consistently more confident in its own, often literal, machine-generated translation than in diverse, high-quality human versions. We then demonstrate that the utility of perplexity as a TQE signal is highly context-dependent, being strongest for low-resource pairs. Finally, we present an illustrative case study where a flawed translation is refined by providing potentially useful information in a targeted prompt, simulating a knowledge-based repair. We show that as the translation's quality and naturalness improve (a +0.15 COMET score increase), its perplexity also increases, challenging the simple assumption that lower perplexity indicates higher quality and motivating a more nuanced view of uncertainty as signalling a text's departure from rigid translationese.

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