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Think Before You Link: Rarity, Reasoning, and Retrieval in Multilingual Entity Linking
Parinthapat Pengpun, Simran Khanuja, Graham Neubig
Multimodal entity linking grounds entity mentions in text and images to knowledge-base entries. These systems degrade on rare entities, but prior work measures rarity primarily thr…
NormViz: A Benchmark and Framework for Grounding Multimodal Reasoning in Global Cultures
Akhila Yerukola, Fabrice Y Harel-Canada, Simran Khanuja +5
AI systems are used worldwide, but they struggle to serve the needs of culturally diverse populations. Prior work on cultural understanding evaluates AI systems on text-only settin…
Steering LLMs for Culturally Localized Generation
Simran Khanuja, Hongbin Liu, Shujian Zhang +4
LLMs are deployed globally, yet produce responses biased towards cultures with abundant training data. Existing cultural localization approaches such as prompting or post-training…
Linguistically Informed Evaluation of Multilingual ASR for African Languages
Fei-Yueh Chen, Lateef Adeleke, C. M. Downey
Word Error Rate (WER) mischaracterizes ASR models' performance for African languages by combining phonological, tone, and other linguistic errors into a single lexical error. By co…
MERLIN: A Testbed for Multilingual Multimodal Entity Recognition and Linking
Sathyanarayanan Ramamoorthy, Vishwa Shah, Simran Khanuja +5
This paper introduces MERLIN, a novel testbed system for the task of Multilingual Multimodal Entity Linking. The created dataset includes BBC news article titles, paired with corre…
Grounding Multilingual Multimodal LLMs With Cultural Knowledge
Jean de Dieu Nyandwi, Yueqi Song, Simran Khanuja +1
Multimodal Large Language Models excel in high-resource settings, but often misinterpret long-tail cultural entities and underperform in low-resource languages. To address this gap…