Preprints:

• Bolei Ma, Yong Cao, Indira Sen, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Frauke Kreuter, Barbara Plank, Daniel Hershcovich: Too Open for Opinion? Embracing Open-Endedness in Large Language Models for Social Simulation. Preprint.
• Bolei Ma, Yina Yao, Anna-Carolina Haensch: Capabilities and Evaluation Biases of Large Language Models in Classical Chinese Poetry Generation: A Case Study on Tang Poetry. Preprint.
• Wei Zhou, Bolei Ma, Annemarie Friedrich, Mohsen Mesgar: Table Question Answering in the Era of Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Tasks, Methods, and Evaluation. Preprint.
• Indira Sen, Bolei Ma, Georg Ahnert, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Tobias Holtdirk, Frauke Kreuter, Markus Strohmaier: Connecting Natural Language Processing and Survey Methodology: Potentials, Challenges, and Open Questions. Preprint.
• Leah von der Heyde, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Alexander Wenz, Bolei Ma: United in Diversity? Contextual Biases in LLM-Based Predictions of the 2024 European Parliament Elections. 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.

2026:

• Yu Lei, Xingyang Ge, Yi Zhang, Yiming Yang, Bolei Ma: Do Large Language Models Think Like the Brain? Sentence-Level Evidences from Layer-Wise Embeddings and fMRI. AAAI 2026.

2025:

• Ingo Ziegler, Bolei Ma, Bernd Bischl, Benjamin Schubert, Emilio Dorigatti: Enhancing Multi-Epitope Vaccine Effectiveness Through State-of-the-Art Proteasomal Cleavage Prediction with Deep Learning. BIBM 2025.
• Ercong Nie, Shuzhou Yuan, Bolei Ma, Helmut Schmid, Michael Färber, Frauke Kreuter, Hinrich Schütze: Decomposed Prompting: Unveiling Multilingual Linguistic Structure Knowledge in English-Centric Large Language Models. IJCNLP-AACL 2025 Findings.
• Chengyan Wu, Bolei Ma, Yihong Liu, Zheyu Zhang, Ningyuan Deng, Yanshu Li, Baolan Chen, Yi Zhang, Yun Xue, Barbara Plank: M-ABSA: A Multilingual Dataset for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. EMNLP 2025.
• Chengyan Wu, Yiqiang Cai, Yang Liu, Pengxu Zhu, Yun Xue, Ziwei Gong, Julia Hirschberg, Bolei Ma: Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations: A Survey of Methods, Trends, Challenges and Prospects. EMNLP 2025 Findings.
• Anna Fuchs, Elisa Noltenius, Caroline Weinzierl, Bolei Ma, Anna-Carolina Haensch: Measuring Sexism in US Elections: A Comparative Analysis of X Discourse from 2020 to 2024. EMNLP 2025 CODI.
• Stephanie Eckman, Bolei Ma, Christoph Kern, Rob Chew, Barbara Plank, Frauke Kreuter: Aligning NLP Models with Target Population Perspectives using PAIR: Population-Aligned Instance Replication. EMNLP 2025 NLPerspectives.
• 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. ACL 2025.
• 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. ACL 2025 - Oral.
• Chengyan Wu, Bolei Ma, Zheyu Zhang, Ningyuan Deng, Yanqing He, Yun Xue: Evaluating Zero-Shot Multilingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Large Language Models. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics.
• Shuzhou Yuan, Ercong Nie, Bolei Ma, Michael Färber: Why Lift so Heavy? Slimming Large Language Models by Cutting Off the Layers. IJCNN 2025.
• Bolei Ma, Cynthia A. Huang, Anna-Carolina Haensch: Can Large Language Models Advance Crosswalks? The Case of Danish Occupation Codes. NAACL 2025 SRW.

2024:

• 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.
• 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.
• Bolei Ma: Evaluating Lexical Aspect with Large Language Models. ACL 2025 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.
• 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 - Oral.

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.
• 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:

• Ingo Ziegler, Bolei Ma, Ercong Nie, Bernd Bischl, David Rügamer, Benjamin Schubert, and Emilio Dorigatti: What Cleaves? Is Proteasomal Cleavage Prediction Reaching a Ceiling? NeurIPS 2022 LMRL.