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most citedDealing with Disagreements: Looking Beyond the Majority Vote in Subjective Annotations

3 citations · 8 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CL2026

Cultural Authenticity: Comparing LLM Cultural Representations to Native Human Expectations

Erin MacMurray van Liemt, Aida Davani, Sinchana Kumbale +2

Cultural representation in Large Language Model (LLM) outputs has primarily been evaluated through the proxies of cultural diversity and factual accuracy. However, a crucial gap re…

cs.AI2026

A Unified Framework to Quantify Cultural Intelligence of AI

Sunipa Dev, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Rutledge Chin Feman +16

As generative AI technologies are increasingly being launched across the globe, assessing their competence to operate in different cultural contexts is exigently becoming a priorit…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Humanlike AI Design Increases Anthropomorphism but Yields Divergent Outcomes on Engagement and Trust Globally

Robin Schimmelpfennig, Mark Díaz, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran +1

Over a billion users globally interact with AI systems engineered to mimic human traits. This development raises concerns that anthropomorphism, the attribution of human characteri…

cs.HC2025

"Just a strange pic": Evaluating 'safety' in GenAI Image safety annotation tasks from diverse annotators' perspectives

Ding Wang, Mark Díaz, Charvi Rastogi +10

Understanding what constitutes safety in AI-generated content is complex. While developers often rely on predefined taxonomies, real-world safety judgments also involve personal, s…

cs.LG2025

Whose View of Safety? A Deep DIVE Dataset for Pluralistic Alignment of Text-to-Image Models

Charvi Rastogi, Tian Huey Teh, Pushkar Mishra +10

Current text-to-image (T2I) models often fail to account for diverse human experiences, leading to misaligned systems. We advocate for pluralistic alignment, where an AI understand…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Risks of Cultural Erasure in Large Language Models

Rida Qadri, Aida M. Davani, Kevin Robinson +1

Large language models are increasingly being integrated into applications that shape the production and discovery of societal knowledge such as search, online education, and travel…

cs.CY2025

A Comprehensive Framework to Operationalize Social Stereotypes for Responsible AI Evaluations

Aida Davani, Sunipa Dev, Héctor Pérez-Urbina +1

Societal stereotypes are at the center of a myriad of responsible AI interventions targeted at reducing the generation and propagation of potentially harmful outcomes. While these…

cs.AI2024

Insights on Disagreement Patterns in Multimodal Safety Perception across Diverse Rater Groups

Charvi Rastogi, Tian Huey Teh, Pushkar Mishra +10

AI systems crucially rely on human ratings, but these ratings are often aggregated, obscuring the inherent diversity of perspectives in real-world phenomenon. This is particularly…

cs.CL2024

D3CODE: Disentangling Disagreements in Data across Cultures on Offensiveness Detection and Evaluation

Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Mark Díaz, Dylan Baker +1

While human annotations play a crucial role in language technologies, annotator subjectivity has long been overlooked in data collection. Recent studies that have critically examin…

cs.CL2024

GeniL: A Multilingual Dataset on Generalizing Language

Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Sagar Gubbi, Sunipa Dev +2

Generative language models are transforming our digital ecosystem, but they often inherit societal biases, for instance stereotypes associating certain attributes with specific ide…

cs.CY2023★ 1 cited

Disentangling Perceptions of Offensiveness: Cultural and Moral Correlates

Aida Davani, Mark Díaz, Dylan Baker +1

Perception of offensiveness is inherently subjective, shaped by the lived experiences and socio-cultural values of the perceivers. Recent years have seen substantial efforts to bui…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

SeeGULL: A Stereotype Benchmark with Broad Geo-Cultural Coverage Leveraging Generative Models

Akshita Jha, Aida Davani, Chandan K. Reddy +3

Stereotype benchmark datasets are crucial to detect and mitigate social stereotypes about groups of people in NLP models. However, existing datasets are limited in size and coverag…

cs.CL2022

The Moral Foundations Reddit Corpus

Jackson Trager, Alireza S. Ziabari, Elnaz Rahmati +15

Moral framing and sentiment can affect a variety of online and offline behaviors, including donation, environmental action, political engagement, and protest. Various computational…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Dealing with Disagreements: Looking Beyond the Majority Vote in Subjective Annotations

Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Mark Díaz, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran

Majority voting and averaging are common approaches employed to resolve annotator disagreements and derive single ground truth labels from multiple annotations. However, annotators…

cs.CL2021

On Releasing Annotator-Level Labels and Information in Datasets

Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Mark Díaz

A common practice in building NLP datasets, especially using crowd-sourced annotations, involves obtaining multiple annotator judgements on the same data instances, which are then…