2025:
- Bolei Ma, Yuting Li, Wei Zhou, Ziwei Gong, Yang Janet Liu, Katja Jasinskaja, Annemarie Friedrich, Julia Hirschberg, Frauke Kreuter, Barbara Plank: Pragmatics in the Era of Large Language Models: A Survey on Datasets, Evaluation, Opportunities and Challenges. Preprint.
- Chengyan Wu, Bolei Ma, Yihong Liu, Zheyu Zhang, Ningyuan Deng, Yanshu Li, Baolan Chen, Yi Zhang, Barbara Plank, Yun Xue: M-ABSA: A Multilingual Dataset for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. Preprint.
- Chengyan Wu, Bolei Ma, Ningyuan Deng, Yanqing He, Yun Xue: Multi-Scale and Multi-Objective Optimization for Cross-Lingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. Preprint.
- Stephanie Eckman, Bolei Ma, Christoph Kern, Rob Chew, Barbara Plank, Frauke Kreuter: Correcting Annotator Bias in Training Data: Population-Aligned Instance Replication (PAIR). Preprint.
2024:
- Bolei Ma, Berk Yoztyurk, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Xinpeng Wang, Markus Herklotz, Frauke Kreuter, Barbara Plank, Matthias Assenmacher: Algorithmic Fidelity of Large Language Models in Generating Synthetic German Public Opinions: A Case Study. Preprint.
- Chengyan Wu, Bolei Ma, Zheyu Zhang, Ningyuan Deng, Yanqing He, Yun Xue: Evaluating Zero-Shot Multilingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Large Language Models. Preprint.
- Bolei Ma, Xinpeng Wang, Tiancheng Hu, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Michael A Hedderich, Barbara Plank, Frauke Kreuter: The Potential and Challenges of Evaluating Attitudes, Opinions, and Values in Large Language Models. EMNLP 2024 Findings.
- Xinpeng Wang, Chengzhi Hu, Bolei Ma, Paul Röttger, Barbara Plank: Look at the Text: Instruction-Tuned Language Models are More Robust Multiple Choice Selectors than You Think. COLM 2024.
- Bolei Ma: Evaluating Lexical Aspect with Large Language Models. ACL 2024 CMCL.
- Andreas Dimmelmeier, Hendrik Christian Doll, Malte Schierholz, Emily Kormanyos, Maurice Fehr, Bolei Ma, Jacob Beck, Alexander Fraser, Frauke Kreuter: Informing Climate Risk Analysis Using Textual Information - A Research Agenda. ACL 2024 ClimateNLP.
- Xinpeng Wang, Bolei Ma, Chengzhi Hu, Leon Weber-Genzel, Paul Röttger, Frauke Kreuter, Dirk Hovy, Barbara Plank: "My Answer is C": First-Token Probabilities Do Not Match Text Answers in Instruction-Tuned Language Models. ACL 2024 Findings.
- Jacob Beck, Stephanie Eckman, Bolei Ma, Rob Chew, and Frauke Kreuter: Order Effects in Annotation Tasks: Further Evidence of Annotation Sensitivity. EACL 2024 UncertaiNLP.
- Bolei Ma, Ercong Nie, Shuzhou Yuan, Helmut Schmid, Michael Färber, Frauke Kreuter, and Hinrich Schütze: ToPro: Token-Level Prompt Decomposition for Cross-Lingual Sequence Labeling Tasks. EACL 2024.
- Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Bolei Ma, Michael Färber: Why Lift so Heavy? Slimming Large Language Models by Cutting Off the Layers. Preprint.
- Ercong Nie, Shuzhou Yuan, Bolei Ma, Helmut Schmid, Michael Färber, Frauke Kreuter, and Hinrich Schütze: Decomposed Prompting: Unveiling Multilingual Linguistic Structure Knowledge in English-Centric Large Language Models. Preprint.
2023:
- Christoph Kern, Stephanie Eckman, Jacob Beck, Rob Chew, Bolei Ma, and Frauke Kreuter: Annotation Sensitivity: Training Data Collection Methods Affect Model Performance. EMNLP 2023 Findings.
- Zheyu Zhang, Han Yang, Bolei Ma, David Rügamer, and Ercong Nie: Baby’s CoThought: Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhanced Reasoning in Compact Models. CoNLL 2023 BabyLM Challenge.
- Ingo Ziegler, Bolei Ma, Bernd Bischl, Emilio Dorigatti, and Benjamin Schubert: Proteasomal Cleavage Prediction: State-Of-The-Art and Future Directions. bioRxiv.
- Bolei Ma, Ercong Nie, Helmut Schmid, and Hinrich Schütze: Is Prompt-Based Finetuning Always Better Than Vanilla Finetuning? Insights from Cross-Lingual Language Understanding. KONVENS 2023.
2022: