2026

AraMIP: Extending MIPVU Towards Metaphor Identification in Arabic

Mandar Marathe, Manar Ali, Sara Nabhani, Raia Abu Ahmad, Ibrahim Baroud, Omar Momen

Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference @EMNLP 2026 (to appear)

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AraMIP: Extending MIPVU Towards Metaphor Identification in Arabic

Mandar Marathe, Manar Ali, Sara Nabhani, Raia Abu Ahmad, Ibrahim Baroud, Omar Momen

Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference @EMNLP 2026 (to appear)

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Probing the Communicative Efficiency of LLMs via Content Selection in Visually Uncommon Reference Games

Simeon Junker, Manar Ali, Kristina Kobrock, Larissa Koch, Marika Sarzotti, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrieß

Proceedings of INLG 2026 (to appear)

Probing the Communicative Efficiency of LLMs via Content Selection in Visually Uncommon Reference Games

Simeon Junker, Manar Ali, Kristina Kobrock, Larissa Koch, Marika Sarzotti, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrieß

Proceedings of INLG 2026 (to appear)

Reference Games as a Testbed for the Alignment of Model Uncertainty and Clarification Requests

Manar Ali, Judith Sieker, Sina Zarrieß, Hendrik Buschmeier

Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM) @ACL 2026

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Reference Games as a Testbed for the Alignment of Model Uncertainty and Clarification Requests

Manar Ali, Judith Sieker, Sina Zarrieß, Hendrik Buschmeier

Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM) @ACL 2026

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2025

Dialogue Is Not Enough to Make a Communicative BabyLM (But Neither Is Developmentally Inspired Reinforcement Learning)

Francesca Padovani*, Bastian Bunzeck*, Manar Ali, Omar Momen, Arianna Bisazza, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrieß (* equal contribution)

Proceedings of the First BabyLM Workshop @EMNLP 2025

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Dialogue Is Not Enough to Make a Communicative BabyLM (But Neither Is Developmentally Inspired Reinforcement Learning)

Francesca Padovani*, Bastian Bunzeck*, Manar Ali, Omar Momen, Arianna Bisazza, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrieß (* equal contribution)

Proceedings of the First BabyLM Workshop @EMNLP 2025

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Towards Neuro-Symbolic Approaches for Referring Expression Generation

Manar Ali*, Marika Sarzotti*, Simeon Junker, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrieß (* equal contribution)

Proceedings of the 2025 CLASP Conference on Language models And RePresentations (LARP)

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Towards Neuro-Symbolic Approaches for Referring Expression Generation

Manar Ali*, Marika Sarzotti*, Simeon Junker, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrieß (* equal contribution)

Proceedings of the 2025 CLASP Conference on Language models And RePresentations (LARP)

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Are Multimodal Large Language Models Pragmatically Competent Listeners in Simple Reference Resolution Tasks?

Simeon Junker, Manar Ali, Larissa Koch, Sina Zarrieß, Hendrik Buschmeier

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025

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Are Multimodal Large Language Models Pragmatically Competent Listeners in Simple Reference Resolution Tasks?

Simeon Junker, Manar Ali, Larissa Koch, Sina Zarrieß, Hendrik Buschmeier

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025

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