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Words Like Knives: Backstory-Personalized Modeling and Detection of Violent Communication
Jocelyn Shen, Akhila Yerukola, Xuhui Zhou +3
Conversational breakdowns in close relationships are deeply shaped by personal histories and emotional context, yet most NLP research treats conflict detection as a general task, o…
Out of Style: RAG's Fragility to Linguistic Variation
Tianyu Cao, Neel Bhandari, Akhila Yerukola +2
Despite the impressive performance of Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) systems across various NLP benchmarks, their robustness in handling real-world user-LLM interaction queri…
PolyGuard: A Multilingual Safety Moderation Tool for 17 Languages
Priyanshu Kumar, Devansh Jain, Akhila Yerukola +4
Truly multilingual safety moderation efforts for Large Language Models (LLMs) have been hindered by a narrow focus on a small set of languages (e.g., English, Chinese) as well as a…
Mind the Gesture: Evaluating AI Sensitivity to Culturally Offensive Non-Verbal Gestures
Akhila Yerukola, Saadia Gabriel, Nanyun Peng +1
Gestures are an integral part of non-verbal communication, with meanings that vary across cultures, and misinterpretations that can have serious social and diplomatic consequences.…
Ambig-SWE: Interactive Agents to Overcome Underspecificity in Software Engineering
Sanidhya Vijayvargiya, Xuhui Zhou, Akhila Yerukola +2
AI agents are increasingly being deployed to automate tasks, often based on underspecified user instructions. Making unwarranted assumptions to compensate for the missing informati…