All times: CST (China Standard Time) UTC/GMT +8 hours
09:00 - 09:10 Opening Remarks
09:10 - 10:00 Invited Talk:
Nancy F. Chen: From Speech to Sense: The Art of Listening in Artificial Intelligence
10:00 - 10:15 Shared Task Overview: CRAC 2024 Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution
10:15 - 10:30 Shared Task Overview: Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT) Shared Task
DisCuT and DiscReT: MELODI at DISRPT 2025 Multilingual discourse segmentation, connective tagging and relation classification
Robin Pujol, Firmin Rousseau, Philippe Muller and Chloé Braud
CLaC at DISRPT 2025: Hierarchical Adapters for Cross-Framework & Multi-lingual Discourse Relation Classification
Nawar Turk, Daniele Comitogianni and Leila Kosseim
DeDisCo at the DISRPT 2025 Shared Task: A System for Discourse Relation Classification
Zhuoxuan Ju, Jingni Wu, Abhishek Purushothama and Amir Zeldes
HITS at DISRPT 2025: Discourse Segmentation, Connective Detection, and Relation Classification
Souvik Banerjee, YI FAN and Michael Strube
SeCoRel: Multilingual Discourse Analysis in DISRPT 2025
Sobha Lalitha Devi, Pattabhi RK Rao and Vijay Sundar Ram
Few-Shot Coreference Resolution with Semantic Difficulty Metrics and In-Context Learning
Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Dang Van Thin
Fine-Tuned Llama for Multilingual Text-to-Text Coreference Resolution
Jakub Hejman, Ondrej Prazak and Miloslav Konopík
Few-Shot Multilingual Coreference Resolution Using Long-Context Large Language Models
Moiz Sajid, Muhammad Fraz, Seemab Latif and Zuhair Zafar
CorPipe at CRAC 2025: Evaluating Multilingual Encoders for Multilingual Coreference Resolution
Milan Straka
Code-switching in Context: Investigating the Role of Discourse Topic in Bilingual Speech Production
Debasmita Bhattacharya, Anxin Yi, Siying Ding and Julia Hirschberg
Discourse Relation Recognition with Language Models Under Different Data Availability
Shuhaib Mehri, Chuyuan Li and Giuseppe Carenini
Where Frameworks Disagree: A Study of Discourse Segmentation
Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Anna Latusek, Karolina Saputa, Alina Wróblewska, Daniel Ziembicki, Bartosz Żuk, Martyna Lewandowska, Adam Okrasiński, Paulina Rosalska, Anna Śliwicka, Aleksandra Tomaszewska and Sebastian Żurowski
Information-Theoretic and Prompt-Based Evaluation of Discourse Connective Edits in Instructional Text Revisions
Berfin Aktas and Michael Roth
Joint Modeling of Entities and Discourse Relations for Coherence Assessment
Wei Liu and Michael Strube
Towards Adding Arabic to CorefUD
Dima Taji and Daniel Zeman
Exploring Coreference Resolution in Glosses of German Sign Language
Yuzheng Bao and Haixia Chai
13:30 - 14:20 Invited Talk:
Tanya Goyal: Climbing the Right Hill: On Benchmarking Progress in Long-Form Text Processing
Long Context Benchmark for the Russian Language
Igor Churin, Murat Apishev, Maria Tikhonova, Denis Shevelev, Aydar S. Bulatov, Yuri Kuratov, Sergei A. Averkiev and Alena Fenogenova
Enhancing the Automatic Classification of Metadiscourse in Low-Proficiency Learners' Spoken and Written English Texts Using XLNet
Wenwen Guan, Marijn Alta and Jelke Bloem
Stance Detection on Nigerian 2023 Election Tweets Using BERT: A Low-Resource Transformer-Based Approach
Mahmoud Said Ahmad and Habeebah A. Kakudi
"Otherwise" in Context: Exploring Discourse Functions with Language Models
Guifu Liu, Bonnie Webber and Hannah Rohde
On the Role of Context for Discourse Relation Classification in Scientific Writing
Stephen Wan, Wei Liu and Michael Strube
Automated Conspiracy Narrative Detection Across Social Media Platforms
Calvin Yixiang Cheng and Mohsen Mosleh
Zero-Shot Belief: A Hard Problem for LLMs
John Murzaku and Owen Rambow
Probing the Limits of Multilingual Language Understanding: Nepali Proverbs as LLM Benchmark for AI Wisdom
Surendrabikram Thapa, Kritesh Rauniyar, Hariram Veeramani, Surabhi Adhikari, Imran Razzak and Usman Naseem
Measuring Sexism in US Elections: A Comparative Analysis of X Discourse from 2020 to 2024
Anna Fuchs, Elisa Noltenius, Caroline Weinzierl, Bolei Ma and Anna-Carolina Haensch
EmbiText: Embracing Ambiguity by Annotation, Recognition and Generation of Pronominal Reference with Event-Entity Ambiguity
Amna Sheikh and Christian Hardmeier
Human and LLM-based Assessment of Teaching Acts in Expert-led Explanatory Dialogues
Aliki Anagnostopoulou, Nils Feldhus, Yi-Sheng Hsu, Milad Alshomary, Henning Wachsmuth and Daniel Sonntag
Multi-token Mask-filling and Implicit Discourse Relations
Meinan Liu, Yunfang Dong, Xixian Liao and Bonnie Webber
Consistent Discourse-level Temporal Relation Extraction Using Large Language Models
Yi Fan and Michael Strube
Coreference in simplified German: Linguistic features and challenges of automatic annotation
Sarah Jablotschkin, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Heike Zinsmeister
Mention detection with LLMs in pair-programming dialogue
Cecilia Domingo, Paul Piwek, Svetlana Stoyanchev and Michel Wermelinger
The Elephant in the Coreference Room: Resolving Coreference in Full-Length French Fiction Works
Antoine Bourgois and Thierry Poibeau
Referential ambiguity and clarification requests: comparing human and LLM behaviour
Chris Madge, Matthew Purver and Massimo Poesio
Revisiting the Givenness Hierarchy. A Corpus-Based Evaluation
Milan Straka
16:00 - 16:15 Unpacking Ambiguity: The Interaction of Polysemous Discourse Markers and Non-DM Signals
Jingni Wu and Amir Zeldes
16:15 - 16:30 Impact of ASR Transcriptions on French Spoken Coreference Resolution
Kirill Milintsevich
16:30 - 16:45 GLaRef@CRAC2025: Should we transform coreference resolution into a text generation task?
Olga Seminck, Antoine Bourgois, Yoann Dupont, Mathieu Dehouck and Marine Delaborde
16:45 - 17:00 Entity Tracking in Small Language Models: An Attention-Based Study of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
Sungho Jeon and Michael Strube
17:00 - 17:15 Corpus-Oriented Stance Target Extraction
Benjamin David Steel and Derek Ruths
17:15 - 17:30 Bridging Discourse Treebanks with a Unified Rhetorical Structure Parser
Elena Chistova