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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Comparative Performance Evaluation: From Rules to Language Models
associated with the International Conference RANLP 2025

Chairs
Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo
Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares
Ruslan Mitkov
Rafael Muñoz Guillena
Raúl García Cerdá

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PROGRAM

 CoVeGAT: A Hybrid LLM & Graph‑Attention Pipeline for Accurate Citation‑Aligned Claim Verification
Max Bader, Akshatha Arunkumar, Ohan Ahmad, Maruf Hassen, Charles Duong, Vasu Sharma, Sean O’Brien and Kevin Zhu
 A Comparative Study of Vision Transformers and Multimodal Language Models for Violence Detection in Videos
Tomas Ditchfield-Ogle and Ruslan Mitkov
16:30–17:00Detection of AI-generated Content in Scientific Abstracts
Ernesto Luis Estevanell-Valladares, Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo and Ruslan Mitkov
11:00–11:30A Comparative Study of Hyperbole Detection Methods: From Rule-Based Approaches through Deep Learning Models to Large Language Models
Silvia Gargova, Nevena Grigorova and Ruslan Mitkov
11:30–12:00Evaluating the Performance of Transformers in Translating Low-Resource Languages through Akkadian
Daniel A. Jones and Ruslan Mitkov
 United We Fine-Tune: Structurally Complementary Datasets for Hope Speech Detection
Priya Dharshini Krishnaraj, Tulio Ferreira Leite da Silva, Gonzalo Freijedo Aduna, Samuel Chen, Farah Benamara and Alda Mari
 Does Anaphora Resolution Improve LLM Fine-Tuning for Summarisation?
Yi Chun Lo and Ruslan Mitkov
 Transformers and Large Language Models for Hope Speech Detection A Multilingual Approach
Diana Patricia Madera-Espíndola, Zoe Caballero-Domínguez, Valeria J. Ramírez-Macías, Sabur Butt and Hector G. Ceballos
12:00–12:30Beyond BLEU: Ethical Risks of Misleading Evaluation in Domain-Specific QA with LLMs
Ayoub Nainia, Régine Vignes-Lebbe, Hajar Mousannif and Jihad Zahir
 From Zero to Hero: Building Serbian NER from Rules to LLMs
Milica Ikonić Nešić, Sasa Petalinkar, Ranka Stanković and Ruslan Mitkov
 Enhancing the Performance of Spoiler Review Detection by a LLM with Hints
Genta Nishi and Einoshin Suzuki
 Evaluating Structured Decoding for Text-to-Table Generation: Evidence from Three Datasets
Julian Oestreich and Lydia Müller
17:00–17:30Evaluating the LLM and NMT Models in Translating Low-Resourced Languages
Julita JP Pucinskaite and Ruslan Mitkov
15:00–15:30KGEIR: Knowledge Graph-Enhanced Iterative Reasoning for Multi-Hop Question Answering
Tianda Sun and Dimitar Kazakov
17:30–18:00From Handcrafted Features to LLMs: A Comparative Study in Native Language Identification
Aliyah C. Vanterpool and Katsiaryna Aharodnik
15:30–16:00Systematic Evaluation of Rule-Based Analytics for LLM-Driven Graph Data Modelling
Fabio Antonio Yanez, Andrés Montoyo, Armando Suárez, Alejandro Piad-Morffis and Yudivián Almeida Cruz
 Improved Contrastive Learning over Commonsense Knowledge Graphs for Unsupervised Reasoning
Rongwen Zhao and Jeffrey Flanigan
 TextBandit: Evaluating Probabilistic Reasoning in LLMs Through Language-Only Decision Tasks
Arjun Damerla, Jimin Lim, Yanxi Jiang, Nam Nguyen Hoai Le and Nikil Selladurai