NLG in the Lowlands 2025

09:30–10:00
Arrival & Welcome

10:00–10:05
Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University)
Opening Words

10:05–10:30
Grzegorz Chrupala (Tilburg University)
Promises and pitfalls of a unified NLP

10:30–10:55
Iacer Calixto (Amsterdam UMC)
Evaluating LLMs in healthcare: uncertainty quantification and probing for clinical understanding

10:55–11:20
Albert Gatt (Utrecht University)
Read before burning: How Multimodal LLMs Ground Temporal Relations in Visual Sequences

11:20–11:40
Coffee Break

11:40–12:05
Sien Moens (KU Leuven)
Drawing with Words: The Power of Natural Language in Visual Generation

11:05–12:30
Nele Albers (Tilburg University)
Using LLMs to bootstrap reinforcement learning: A case study in digital health 

12:30–13:30
Lunch Break

13:30–14:15
Poster Session 1
See “Posters” section below.

14:15–14:40:
Sadegh Jafari (Ghent University)
Multimodal Empathetic Conversational Agents

14:40–15:05
Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam)
On the dangers of overlooked referential ambiguity in VQA

15:05–15:15
Coffee Break

15:15–16:00
Poster Session 2
See “Posters” section below.

16:00–16:25
Jelle Zuidema (University of Amsterdam)
Actionable interpretability: how can we open the blackbox of generative AI systems, and what can we do with what we learn?

16:25–16:45
Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg University)
Discussion

17:00–
Dinner

Note: We are organizing a group dinner at Gourmet Market in the evening, though please note that the dinner will be self-paid. Lunch and coffee will be provided during the event by the organisation.

Poster Session 1 (13:30–14:15):

• Manar Ali (Bielefeld University)
  Are Multimodal Large Language Models Pragmatically Competent Listeners in Simple Reference Resolution Tasks?
  
  

• Agnes Axelsson (TU Delft)
  Nonverbal Alignment in Human-Robot Interaction
  
  

• Erkan Basar (Radboud University)
  To What Extent Can LLMs Generate Motivational Interviewing Reflections?
  
  

• Enrico Liscio (TU Delft)
  News is More than a Collection of Facts: Moral Frame Preserving News Summarization
  
  

• Hosein Mohebbi (Tilburg University)
  Disentangling Textual and Acoustic Features of Self-supervised Speech Representations
  
  

• Daniel Scalena (University of Groningen)
  LM steering helps us improve them
  
  

• Aditya K Surikuchi (University of Amsterdam)
  Language Generation from Visual Sequences
  
  

• Ece Takmaz & Filippo Merlo (Utrecht University)
  Multimodal context in multilingual referential communication
  
  

Poster Session 2 (15:15–16:00):

• Anna Bavaresco (University of Amsterdam)
  Experiential Semantic Information and Brain Alignment: Are Multimodal Models Better than Language Models?
  
  

• Simeon Junker (Bielefeld University)
  SceneGram: Conceptualizing and Describing Tangrams in Scene Context
  
  

• Srinivas Ramesh Kamath (Trivago N.V.)
  Generating Hotel Highlights from Unstructured Text Using LLMs
  
  

• Marieke Meeske (Tilburg University)
  The Role of Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Food Security Policymaking
  
  

• Mohammed Al Owayyed (TU Delft)
  Integrating LLMs into a BDI-based simulation for training counsellors at children's helplines
  
  

• Marika Sarzotti (University of Trento)
  Application of Incremental Algorithm with Saliency Weights in Image Reference Games
  
  

• Maria Trusca (KU Leuven)
  Handwritten Text Recognition for Historical Latin Manuscripts
  
  

• Leonidas Zotos (University of Groningen)
  AI Methods May Actually Be Better Than Professors at Estimating Question Difficulty
  
  

NLG in Lowlands 2025 is organized by Erkan Basar, Emiel Krahmer, and Emiel van Miltenburg.

Please contact Erkan (mail), if you have any questions or would like to make changes in your registration.