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# *SEM 2025 — accepted papers

*SEM 2025 is the 2025 edition of the Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), held in Suzhou, China, November 2025 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 35 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Suzhou, [China](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/china/) · 🗓 November 2025

[**35** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2025/#works) · [**0** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2025/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[AdvERSEM: Adversarial Robustness Testing and Training of LLM-based Groundedness Evaluators via Semantic Structure Manipulation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.32/)**Kaustubh Dhole, Ramraj Chandradevan, Eugene Agichtein*2 citations*
2. **[HSGM: Hierarchical Segment-Graph Memory for Scalable Long-Text Semantics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.26/)**Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu*2 citations*
3. **[LLMs as annotators of argumentation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.19/)**Anna Lindahl*2 citations*
4. **[Relation-Aware Prompting Makes Large Language Models Effective Zero-shot Relation Extractors ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.22/)**Mahdi Rahimi, Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru, Mihai Surdeanu*2 citations*
5. **[All Entities are Not Created Equal: Examining the Long Tail for Ultra-Fine Entity Typing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.15/)**Advait Deshmukh, Ashwin Umadi, Dananjay Srinivas et al.*1 citation*
6. **[Injecting Frame Semantics into Large Language Models via Prompt-Based Fine-Tuning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.3/)**Shahid Iqbal Rai, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili*1 citation*
7. **[Semantic Prosody in Machine Translation: the English-Chinese Case of Passive Structures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.5/)**Xinyue Ma, Pol Pastells, Mariona Taulé Delor et al.*1 citation*

## All accepted papers (35)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[AdvERSEM: Adversarial Robustness Testing and Training of LLM-based Groundedness Evaluators via Semantic Structure Manipulation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.32/)**Kaustubh Dhole, Ramraj Chandradevan, Eugene Agichtein*2 citations*
2. **[HSGM: Hierarchical Segment-Graph Memory for Scalable Long-Text Semantics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.26/)**Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu*2 citations*
3. **[LLMs as annotators of argumentation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.19/)**Anna Lindahl*2 citations*
4. **[Relation-Aware Prompting Makes Large Language Models Effective Zero-shot Relation Extractors ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.22/)**Mahdi Rahimi, Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru, Mihai Surdeanu*2 citations*
5. **[All Entities are Not Created Equal: Examining the Long Tail for Ultra-Fine Entity Typing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.15/)**Advait Deshmukh, Ashwin Umadi, Dananjay Srinivas et al.*1 citation*
6. **[Injecting Frame Semantics into Large Language Models via Prompt-Based Fine-Tuning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.3/)**Shahid Iqbal Rai, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili*1 citation*
7. **[Semantic Prosody in Machine Translation: the English-Chinese Case of Passive Structures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.5/)**Xinyue Ma, Pol Pastells, Mariona Taulé Delor et al.*1 citation*
8. **[AmbiStory: A Challenging Dataset of Lexically Ambiguous Short Stories ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.12/)**Janosch Gehring, Michael Roth
9. **[Bridging Information Gaps with Comprehensive Answers: Improving the Diversity and Informativeness of Follow-Up Questions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.2/)**Zhe Liu, Taekyu Kang, Haoyu Wang et al.
10. **[ChengyuSTS: An Intrinsic Perspective on Mandarin Idiom Representation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.1/)**Le Qiu, Emmanuele Chersoni, Aline Villavicencio
11. **[Connecting Concept Layers and Rationales to Enhance Language Model Interpretability ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.33/)**Thomas Bailleux, Tanmoy Mukherjee, Pierre Marquis et al.
12. **[Cross-Domain Persuasion Detection with Argumentative Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.30/)**Bagyasree Sudharsan, Maria Leonor Pacheco
13. **[Cross-Lingual Extractive Question Answering with Unanswerable Questions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.8/)**Yuval Gorodissky, Elior Sulem, Dan Roth
14. **[DisCoCLIP: A Distributional Compositional Tensor Network Encoder for Vision-Language Understanding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.25/)**Kin Ian Lo, Hala Hawashin, Mina Abbaszadeh et al.
15. **[Enhancing Readability-Controlled Text Modification with Readability Assessment and Target Span Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.23/)**Fengkai Liu, John S. Y. Lee
16. **[Evaluating Compositional Generalisation in VLMs and Diffusion Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.9/)**Beth Pearson, Bilal Boulbarss, Michael Wray et al.
17. **[Evaluating Textual and Visual Semantic Neighborhoods of Abstract and Concrete Concepts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.11/)**Sven Naber, Diego Frassinelli, Sabine Schulte im Walde
18. **[Explanations explained. Influence of Free-text Explanations on LLMs and the Role of Implicit Knowledge ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.17/)**Andrea Zaninello, Roberto Dessi, Malvina Nissim et al.
19. **[From Complex Word Identification to Substitution: Instruction-Tuned Language Models for Lexical Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.4/)**Tonghui Han, Xinru Zhang, Yaxin Bi et al.
20. **[Generalizability of Media Frames: Corpus creation and analysis across countries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.7/)**Agnese Daffara, Sourabh Dattawad, Sebastian Padó et al.
21. **[Hallucinated Span Detection with Multi-View Attention Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.31/)**Yuya Ogasa, Yuki Arase
22. **[How Do Large Language Models Evaluate Lexical Complexity? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.28/)**Abdelhak Kelious, Mathieu Constant, Christophe Coeur
23. **[If We May De-Presuppose: Robustly Verifying Claims through Presupposition-Free Question Decomposition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.20/)**Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Francis Ferraro
24. **[Knowledge Editing Induces Underconfidence in Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.27/)**Ryo Hasegawa, Yusuke Sakai, Hidetaka Kamigaito et al.
25. **[Latent Traits and Cross-Task Transfer: Deconstructing Dataset Interactions in LLM Fine-tuning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.18/)**Shambhavi Krishna, Atharva Naik, Chaitali Agarwal et al.

[See all 35 papers in SEM 2025 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2025/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (2)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[When Does Meaning Backfire? Investigating the Role of AMRs in NLI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/min-2025-when-does-meaning-backfire-investigating/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Junghyun Min, Xiulin Yang, Shira Wein*2025*
2. **[Math Natural Language Inference: this should be easy!](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/paiva-2025-math-natural-language-inference-this/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Valeria de Paiva, Qiyue Gao, Hai Hu, et al.*2025*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Reasoning (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Hai Hu**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hai-hu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Junghyun Min**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junghyun-min/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lawrence S. Moss**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lawrence-s-moss/) · [🧑‍🔬**Shira Wein**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shira-wein/) · [🧑‍🔬**Valeria de Paiva**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valeria-de-paiva/) · [🧑‍🔬**Xiulin Yang**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiulin-yang/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**Amherst College** Amherst Center · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/amherst-college/) · [🎓**Shanghai Jiao Tong University** Shanghai · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-jiao-tong-university/) · [🎓**Georgetown University** Washington · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgetown-university/) · [🎓**University of California San Diego** San Diego · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-diego/) · [🤝**Topos Institute** Berkeley · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/topos-institute/) · [🎓**Indiana University** Bloomington · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indiana-university/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/)

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