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Two publications accepted at IJCNLP-AACL

The following publications were accepted at the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL):

Leon Hammerla, Alexander Mehler and Giuseppe Abrami. 2025. Standardizing Heterogeneous Corpora with DUUR: A Dual Data- and Process-Oriented Approach to Enhancing NLP Pipeline Integration. Proceedings of 2025 International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL-Findings). accepted.
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{Hammerla:et:al:2025a,
  author    = {Hammerla, Leon and Mehler, Alexander and Abrami, Giuseppe},
  title     = {Standardizing Heterogeneous Corpora with DUUR: A Dual Data- and
               Process-Oriented Approach to Enhancing NLP Pipeline Integration},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 2025 International Joint Conference on Natural
               Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association
               for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL-Findings)},
  year      = {2025},
  note      = {accepted},
  keywords  = {neglab}
}
Leon Hammerla, Andy Lücking, Carolin Reinert and Alexander Mehler. 2025. D-Neg: Syntax-Aware Graph Reasoning for Negation Detection. Proceedings of 2025 International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL-Findings). accepted.
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{Hammerla:et:al:2025b,
  author    = {Hammerla, Leon and Lücking, Andy and Reinert, Carolin and Mehler, Alexander},
  title     = {D-Neg: Syntax-Aware Graph Reasoning for Negation Detection},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 2025 International Joint Conference on Natural
               Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association
               for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL-Findings)},
  year      = {2025},
  note      = {accepted},
  keywords  = {neglab}
}

New EMNLP 2025 publication accepted

The publication MedLinkDE — MedDRA Entity Linking for German with Guided Chain of Thought Reasoning was accepted at the EMNLP 2025.

Roman Christof, Farnaz Zeidi, Manuela Messelhäußer, Dirk Mentzer, Renate Koenig, Liam Childs and Alexander Mehler. 2025. MedLinkDE – MedDRA Entity Linking for German with Guided Chain of Thought Reasoning. Proceedings of 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). accepted.
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{Christof:et:al:2025,
  author    = {Christof, Roman and Zeidi, Farnaz and Messelhäußer, Manuela and Mentzer, Dirk
               and Koenig, Renate and Childs, Liam and Mehler, Alexander},
  title     = {{MedLinkDE -- MedDRA Entity Linking for German with Guided Chain
               of Thought Reasoning}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
               Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  year      = {2025},
  note      = {accepted}
}

New SemDial publication

TTLab publishes its VR-based human–human directions dialogue corpus mediated by avatars.

Andy Lücking, Felix Voll, Daniel Rott, Alexander Henlein and Alexander Mehler. 2025. Head and Hand Movements During Turn Transitions: Data-Based Multimodal Analysis Using the Frankfurt VR Gesture–Speech Alignment Corpus (FraGA). Proceedings of the 29th Workshop on The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue – Full Papers, 146–156.
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{Luecking:Voll:Rott:Henlein:Mehler:2025-fraga,
  title     = {Head and Hand Movements During Turn Transitions: Data-Based Multimodal
               Analysis Using the {Frankfurt VR Gesture--Speech Alignment Corpus}
               ({FraGA})},
  author    = {Lücking, Andy and Voll, Felix and Rott, Daniel and Henlein, Alexander
               and Mehler, Alexander},
  year      = {2025},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th Workshop on The Semantics and Pragmatics
               of Dialogue -- Full Papers},
  series    = {SemDial'25 -- Bialogue},
  publisher = {SEMDIAL},
  url       = {http://semdial.org/anthology/Z25-Luecking_semdial_3316.pdf},
  pages     = {146--156},
  keywords  = {gemdis}
}