4 papers
CultureConverse: A Multilingual Multi-turn Simulation Harness for Culturally Grounded Assistance in East and Southeast Asia
Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Weihua Zheng, Thong T. Doan +30
Current cultural evaluations for large language models (LLMs) often reduce culture to single-turn factual recall via MCQs, failing to capture a common use case: users seeking pract…
Utilizing Dynamic Time Warping for Pandemic Surveillance: Understanding the Relationship between Google Trends Network Metrics and COVID-19 Incidences
Michael T. Lopez, Cheska Elise Hung, Maria Regina Justina E. Estuar
The premise of network statistics derived from Google Trends data to foresee COVID-19 disease progression is gaining momentum in infodemiology. This approach was applied in Metro M…
Network Density Analysis of Health Seeking Behavior in Metro Manila: A Retrospective Analysis on COVID-19 Google Trends Data
Michael T. Lopez, Cheska Elise Hung, Maria Regina Justina E. Estuar
This study examined the temporal aspect of COVID-19-related health-seeking behavior in Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines through a network density analysis of Goog…
A Spatial Agent-Based Model for Preemptive Evacuation Decisions During Typhoon
Rey C. Rodrigueza, Maria Regina Justina E. Estuar
Natural disasters continue to cause tremendous damage to human lives and properties. The Philippines, due to its geographic location, is considered a natural disaster-prone country…