SODA Lab @ ACL 2025: NLP in Social Science and Humanity Studies

SODA Lab at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Members of the SODA Lab attended the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Vienna, Austria (July 27 to August 1st, 2025), presenting on topics ranging from public opinions, linguistics to gender biases in the current era of large language models.

Bolei presented following two papers in the main conference:

• Bolei Ma, Berk Yoztyurk, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Xinpeng Wang, Markus Herklotz, Frauke Kreuter, Barbara Plank, and Matthias Aßenmacher. 2025. Algorithmic Fidelity of Large Language Models in Generating Synthetic German Public Opinions: A Case Study. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1785–1809, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Bolei Ma, Yuting Li, Wei Zhou, Ziwei Gong, Yang Janet Liu, Katja Jasinskaja, Annemarie Friedrich, Julia Hirschberg, Frauke Kreuter, and Barbara Plank. 2025. Pragmatics in the Era of Large Language Models: A Survey on Datasets, Evaluation, Opportunities and Challenges. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 8679–8696, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Olga presented the following work at the Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP:

• Olga Kononykhina, Anna-Carolina Haensch, and Frauke Kreuter. 2025. Mind the Gap: Gender-based Differences in Occupational Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP), pages 83–91, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.