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Barbara Plank

LMU Munich, Germany

48 papers at tracked venues · 23 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×19EMNLP ×17EACL ×4NAACL ×3AAAI ×1ICLR ×1ICML ×1InterSpeech ×1NeurIPS ×1

Frequent coauthors

Beiduo Chen
×7
Siyao Peng
×7
Philipp Mondorf
×7
Robert Litschko
×6
Bolei Ma
×6
Frauke Kreuter
×6
Xinpeng Wang
×6
Diego Frassinelli
×5
Anna Korhonen
×5
Michael A. Hedderich
×5
Anna-Carolina Haensch
×4
Pingjun Hong
×3

Papers

  1. Agree, Disagree, Explain: Decomposing Human Label Variation in NLI through the Lens of Explanations
    ACL 2026 ·
    Pingjun Hong
    ,
    Beiduo Chen
    ,
    Siyao Peng
    ,
    Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
    ,
    Benjamin Roth
    , Barbara Plank
  2. Controlling Reading Ease with Gaze-Guided Text Generation
    EACL 2026 ·
    Andreas Säuberli
    ,
    Darja Jepifanova
    ,
    Diego Frassinelli
    , Barbara Plank
  3. Decoupling the Effect of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: A Human Label Variation Perspective
    ACL 2026 ·
    Beiduo Chen
    ,
    Tiancheng Hu
    ,
    Caiqi Zhang
    ,
    Robert Litschko
    ,
    Anna Korhonen
    , Barbara Plank
  4. EVADE: LLM-Based Explanation Generation and Validation for Error Detection in NLI
    ACL 2026 ·
    Longfei Zuo
    , Barbara Plank,
    Siyao Peng
  5. If Probable, Then Acceptable? Understanding Conditional Acceptability Judgments in Large Language Models
    EACL 2026 ·
    Jasmin Orth
    ,
    Philipp Mondorf
    , Barbara Plank
  6. Linear Script Representations in Speech Foundation Models Enable Zero-Shot Transliteration
    ACL 2026 ·
    Ryan Soh-Eun Shim
    ,
    Kwanghee Choi
    ,
    Kalvin Chang
    ,
    Ming-Hao Hsu
    ,
    Florian Eichin
    ,
    Zhizheng Wu
    ,
    Alane Suhr
    ,
    Michael A. Hedderich
    ,
    David Harwath
    ,
    David R. Mortensen
    , Barbara Plank
  7. Position: From Noise to Signal to Selbstzweck - Reframing Human Label Variation in the Era of Post-training in NLP
    ACL 2026 ·
    Shanshan Xu
    ,
    T. Y. S. S. Santosh
    , Barbara Plank
  8. Standard-to-Dialect Transfer Trends Differ across Text and Speech: A Case Study on Intent and Topic Classification in German Dialects
    ACL 2026 ·
    Verena Blaschke
    ,
    Miriam Winkler
    , Barbara Plank
  9. Survey Response Generation: Generating Closed-Ended Survey Responses In-Silico with Large Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Georg Ahnert
    ,
    Anna-Carolina Haensch
    , Barbara Plank,
    Markus Strohmaier
  10. Too Open for Opinion? Embracing Open-Endedness in Large Language Models for Social Simulation
    EACL 2026 ·
    Bolei Ma
    ,
    Yong Cao
    ,
    Indira Sen
    ,
    Anna-Carolina Haensch
    ,
    Frauke Kreuter
    , Barbara Plank,
    Daniel Hershcovich
  11. When Meanings Meet: Investigating the Emergence and Quality of Shared Concept Spaces during Multilingual Language Model Training
    EACL 2026 ·
    Felicia Körner
    ,
    Max Müller-Eberstein
    ,
    Anna Korhonen
    , Barbara Plank
  12. ltzGLUE: Luxembourgish General Language Understanding Evaluation
    ACL 2026 ·
    Alistair Plum
    ,
    Felicia Körner
    ,
    Anne-Marie Lutgen
    ,
    Laura Bernardy
    ,
    Fred Philippy
    ,
    Emilia Milano
    ,
    Nils Rehlinger
    ,
    Cedric Lothritz
    ,
    Tharindu Ranasinghe
    , Barbara Plank,
    Christoph Purschke
  13. A Multi-Dialectal Dataset for German Dialect ASR and Dialect-to-Standard Speech Translation
    InterSpeech 2025 ·
    Verena Blaschke
    ,
    Miriam Winkler
    ,
    Constantin Förster
    ,
    Gabriele Wenger-Glemser
    , Barbara Plank
  14. A Rose by Any Other Name: LLM-Generated Explanations Are Good Proxies for Human Explanations to Collect Label Distributions on NLI
    ACL 2025 ·
    Beiduo Chen
    ,
    Siyao Peng
    ,
    Anna Korhonen
    , Barbara Plank
  15. Algorithmic Fidelity of Large Language Models in Generating Synthetic German Public Opinions: A Case Study
    ACL 2025 ·
    Bolei Ma
    ,
    Berk Yoztyurk
    ,
    Anna-Carolina Haensch
    ,
    Xinpeng Wang
    ,
    Markus Herklotz
    ,
    Frauke Kreuter
    , Barbara Plank,
    Matthias Aßenmacher
  16. Circuit Compositions: Exploring Modular Structures in Transformer-Based Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Philipp Mondorf
    ,
    Sondre Wold
    , Barbara Plank
  17. Crossing Domains without Labels: Distant Supervision for Term Extraction
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Elena Senger
    ,
    Yuri Campbell
    ,
    Rob van der Goot
    , Barbara Plank
  18. Dialetto, ma Quanto Dialetto? Transcribing and Evaluating Dialects on a Continuum
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Ryan Soh-Eun Shim
    , Barbara Plank
  19. Disentangling Subjectivity and Uncertainty for Hate Speech Annotation and Modeling using Gaze
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Özge Alaçam
    ,
    Sanne Hoeken
    ,
    Andreas Säuberli
    ,
    Hannes Gröner
    ,
    Diego Frassinelli
    ,
    Sina Zarrieß
    , Barbara Plank
  20. Evaluating Large Language Models for Cross-Lingual Retrieval
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Longfei Zuo
    ,
    Pingjun Hong
    ,
    Oliver Kraus
    , Barbara Plank,
    Robert Litschko
  21. LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks
    ACL 2025 ·
    Anna Bavaresco
    ,
    Raffaella Bernardi
    ,
    Leonardo Bertolazzi
    ,
    Desmond Elliott
    ,
    Raquel Fernández
    ,
    Albert Gatt
    ,
    Esam Ghaleb
    ,
    Mario Giulianelli
    ,
    Michael Hanna
    ,
    Alexander Koller
    ,
    André F. T. Martins
    ,
    Philipp Mondorf
    ,
    Vera Neplenbroek
    ,
    Sandro Pezzelle
    , Barbara Plank,
    David Schlangen
    ,
    Alessandro Suglia
    ,
    Aditya K. Surikuchi
    ,
    Ece Takmaz
    ,
    Alberto Testoni
  22. LiTEx: A Linguistic Taxonomy of Explanations for Understanding Within-Label Variation in Natural Language Inference
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Pingjun Hong
    ,
    Beiduo Chen
    ,
    Siyao Peng
    ,
    Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
    , Barbara Plank
  23. Lost in Inference: Rediscovering the Role of Natural Language Inference for Large Language Models
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Lovish Madaan
    ,
    David Esiobu
    ,
    Pontus Stenetorp
    , Barbara Plank,
    Dieuwke Hupkes
  24. M-ABSA: A Multilingual Dataset for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    ChengYan Wu
    ,
    Bolei Ma
    ,
    Yihong Liu
    ,
    Zheyu Zhang
    ,
    Ningyuan Deng
    ,
    Yanshu Li
    ,
    Baolan Chen
    ,
    Yi Zhang
    ,
    Yun Xue
    , Barbara Plank
  25. MAKIEval: A Multilingual Automatic WiKidata-based Framework for Cultural Awareness Evaluation for LLMs
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Raoyuan Zhao
    ,
    Beiduo Chen
    , Barbara Plank,
    Michael A. Hedderich
  26. Make Every Letter Count: Building Dialect Variation Dictionaries from Monolingual Corpora
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Robert Litschko
    ,
    Verena Blaschke
    ,
    Diana Burkhardt
    , Barbara Plank,
    Diego Frassinelli
  27. Mind the Uncertainty in Human Disagreement: Evaluating Discrepancies Between Model Predictions and Human Responses in VQA
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Jian Lan
    ,
    Diego Frassinelli
    , Barbara Plank
  28. Pragmatics in the Era of Large Language Models: A Survey on Datasets, Evaluation, Opportunities and Challenges
    ACL 2025 ·
    Bolei Ma
    ,
    Yuting Li
    ,
    Wei Zhou
    ,
    Ziwei Gong
    ,
    Yang Janet Liu
    ,
    Katja Jasinskaja
    ,
    Annemarie Friedrich
    ,
    Julia Hirschberg
    ,
    Frauke Kreuter
    , Barbara Plank
  29. Probing LLMs for Multilingual Discourse Generalization Through a Unified Label Set
    ACL 2025 ·
    Florian Eichin
    ,
    Yang Janet Liu
    , Barbara Plank,
    Michael A. Hedderich
  30. RAcQUEt: Unveiling the Dangers of Overlooked Referential Ambiguity in Visual LLMs
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Alberto Testoni
    , Barbara Plank,
    Raquel Fernández
  31. Reason to Rote: Rethinking Memorization in Reasoning
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yupei Du
    ,
    Philipp Mondorf
    ,
    Silvia Casola
    ,
    Yuekun Yao
    ,
    Robert Litschko
    , Barbara Plank
  32. Refusal Direction is Universal Across Safety-Aligned Languages
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Xinpeng Wang
    ,
    Mingyang Wang
    ,
    Yihong Liu
    ,
    Hinrich Schütze
    , Barbara Plank
  33. Surgical, Cheap, and Flexible: Mitigating False Refusal in Language Models via Single Vector Ablation
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Xinpeng Wang
    ,
    Chengzhi Hu
    ,
    Paul Röttger
    , Barbara Plank
  34. The Validation Gap: A Mechanistic Analysis of How Language Models Compute Arithmetic but Fail to Validate It
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Leonardo Bertolazzi
    ,
    Philipp Mondorf
    , Barbara Plank,
    Raffaella Bernardi
  35. Threading the Needle: Reweaving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning to Explain Human Label Variation
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Beiduo Chen
    ,
    Yang Janet Liu
    ,
    Anna Korhonen
    , Barbara Plank
  36. Tracing Multilingual Factual Knowledge Acquisition in Pretraining
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yihong Liu
    ,
    Mingyang Wang
    ,
    Amir Hossein Kargaran
    ,
    Felicia Körner
    ,
    Ercong Nie
    , Barbara Plank,
    François Yvon
    ,
    Hinrich Schütze
  37. What Media Frames Reveal About Stance: A Dataset and Study about Memes in Climate Change Discourse
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Shijia Zhou
    ,
    Siyao Peng
    ,
    Simon Luebke
    ,
    Jörg Haßler
    ,
    Mario Haim
    ,
    Saif M. Mohammad
    , Barbara Plank
  38. What's the Difference? Supporting Users in Identifying the Effects of Prompt and Model Changes Through Token Patterns
    ACL 2025 ·
    Michael A. Hedderich
    ,
    Anyi Wang
    ,
    Raoyuan Zhao
    ,
    Florian Eichin
    ,
    Jonas Fischer
    , Barbara Plank
  39. "My Answer is C": First-Token Probabilities Do Not Match Text Answers in Instruction-Tuned Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Xinpeng Wang
    ,
    Bolei Ma
    ,
    Chengzhi Hu
    ,
    Leon Weber-Genzel
    ,
    Paul Röttger
    ,
    Frauke Kreuter
    ,
    Dirk Hovy
    , Barbara Plank
  40. "Seeing the Big through the Small": Can LLMs Approximate Human Judgment Distributions on NLI from a Few Explanations?
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Beiduo Chen
    ,
    Xinpeng Wang
    ,
    Siyao Peng
    ,
    Robert Litschko
    ,
    Anna Korhonen
    , Barbara Plank
  41. Comparing Inferential Strategies of Humans and Large Language Models in Deductive Reasoning
    ACL 2024 ·
    Philipp Mondorf
    , Barbara Plank
  42. Liar, Liar, Logical Mire: A Benchmark for Suppositional Reasoning in Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Philipp Mondorf
    , Barbara Plank
  43. Position: Insights from Survey Methodology can Improve Training Data
    ICML 2024 ·
    Stephanie Eckman
    , Barbara Plank,
    Frauke Kreuter
  44. The Potential and Challenges of Evaluating Attitudes, Opinions, and Values in Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Bolei Ma
    ,
    Xinpeng Wang
    ,
    Tiancheng Hu
    ,
    Anna-Carolina Haensch
    ,
    Michael A. Hedderich
    , Barbara Plank,
    Frauke Kreuter
  45. Through the Lens of Split Vote: Exploring Disagreement, Difficulty and Calibration in Legal Case Outcome Classification
    ACL 2024 ·
    Shanshan Xu
    ,
    T. Y. S. S. Santosh
    ,
    Oana Ichim
    , Barbara Plank,
    Matthias Grabmair
  46. To Know or Not To Know? Analyzing Self-Consistency of Large Language Models under Ambiguity
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Anastasiia Sedova
    ,
    Robert Litschko
    ,
    Diego Frassinelli
    ,
    Benjamin Roth
    , Barbara Plank
  47. Universal NER: A Gold-Standard Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Benchmark
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Stephen Mayhew
    ,
    Terra Blevins
    ,
    Shuheng Liu
    ,
    Marek Suppa
    ,
    Hila Gonen
    ,
    Joseph Marvin Imperial
    ,
    Börje Karlsson
    ,
    Peiqin Lin
    ,
    Nikola Ljubesic
    ,
    Lester James V. Miranda
    , Barbara Plank,
    Arij Riabi
    ,
    Yuval Pinter
  48. VariErr NLI: Separating Annotation Error from Human Label Variation
    ACL 2024 ·
    Leon Weber-Genzel
    ,
    Siyao Peng
    ,
    Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
    , Barbara Plank