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most citedBMIKE-53: Investigating Cross-Lingual Knowledge Editing with In-Context Learning

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12 papers

cs.CL2025

Hateful Person or Hateful Model? Investigating the Role of Personas in Hate Speech Detection by Large Language Models

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Mario Tawfelis +3

Hate speech detection is a socially sensitive and inherently subjective task, with judgments often varying based on personal traits. While prior work has examined how socio-demogra…

cs.CL2025

LLM in the Loop: Creating the ParaDeHate Dataset for Hate Speech Detoxification

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Lukas Kouba +4

Detoxification, the task of rewriting harmful language into non-toxic text, has become increasingly important amid the growing prevalence of toxic content online. However, high-qua…

cs.CL2025

XToM: Exploring the Multilingual Theory of Mind for Large Language Models

Chunkit Chan, Yauwai Yim, Hongchuan Zeng +14

Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to infer mental states in others, is pivotal for human social cognition. Existing evaluations of ToM in LLMs are largely limited to English, negle…

cs.CL2025

Mechanistic Understanding and Mitigation of Language Confusion in English-Centric Large Language Models

Ercong Nie, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze

Language confusion -- where large language models (LLMs) generate unintended languages against the user's need -- remains a critical challenge, especially for English-centric model…

cs.CL2025

XCOMPS: A Multilingual Benchmark of Conceptual Minimal Pairs

Linyang He, Ercong Nie, Sukru Samet Dindar +10

We introduce XCOMPS in this work, a multilingual conceptual minimal pair dataset covering 17 languages. Using this dataset, we evaluate LLMs' multilingual conceptual understanding…

cs.CL2025

Language Model Re-rankers are Fooled by Lexical Similarities

Lovisa Hagström, Ercong Nie, Ruben Halifa +3

Language model (LM) re-rankers are used to refine retrieval results for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). They are more expensive than lexical matching methods like BM25 but as…

cs.CL2024

Large Language Models as Neurolinguistic Subjects: Discrepancy between Performance and Competence

Linyang He, Ercong Nie, Helmut Schmid +3

This study investigates the linguistic understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs) regarding signifier (form) and signified (meaning) by distinguishing two LLM assessment paradig…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

BMIKE-53: Investigating Cross-Lingual Knowledge Editing with In-Context Learning

Ercong Nie, Bo Shao, Zifeng Ding +3

This paper introduces BMIKE-53, a comprehensive benchmark for cross-lingual in-context knowledge editing (IKE) across 53 languages, unifying three knowledge editing (KE) datasets:…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Decomposed Prompting: Probing Multilingual Linguistic Structure Knowledge in Large Language Models

Ercong Nie, Shuzhou Yuan, Bolei Ma +4

Probing the multilingual knowledge of linguistic structure in LLMs, often characterized as sequence labeling, faces challenges with maintaining output templates in current text-to-…

cs.CL2024

GNNavi: Navigating the Information Flow in Large Language Models by Graph Neural Network

Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Michael Färber +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit strong In-Context Learning (ICL) capabilities when prompts with demonstrations are used. However, fine-tuning still remains crucial to further…

cs.CL2024

ToPro: Token-Level Prompt Decomposition for Cross-Lingual Sequence Labeling Tasks

Bolei Ma, Ercong Nie, Shuzhou Yuan +4

Prompt-based methods have been successfully applied to multilingual pretrained language models for zero-shot cross-lingual understanding. However, most previous studies primarily f…

cs.CL2023

Unleashing the Multilingual Encoder Potential: Boosting Zero-Shot Performance via Probability Calibration

Ercong Nie, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze

Pretrained multilingual encoder models can directly perform zero-shot multilingual tasks or linguistic probing by reformulating the input examples into cloze-style prompts. This is…