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A Material Lens on Coloniality in NLP
William Held, Camille Harris, Michael Best +1
Coloniality, the continuation of colonial harms beyond "official" colonization, has pervasive effects across society and scientific fields. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is no…
Task-Agnostic Low-Rank Adapters for Unseen English Dialects
Zedian Xiao, William Held, Yanchen Liu +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on corpora disproportionally weighted in favor of Standard American English. As a result, speakers of other dialects experience significant…
Modeling Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Inference with Codenames Duet
Omar Shaikh, Caleb Ziems, William Held +3
Pragmatic reference enables efficient interpersonal communication. Prior work uses simple reference games to test models of pragmatic reasoning, often with unidentified speakers an…
TADA: Task-Agnostic Dialect Adapters for English
Will Held, Caleb Ziems, Diyi Yang
Large Language Models, the dominant starting point for Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, fail at a higher rate for speakers of English dialects other than Standard Am…
DADA: Dialect Adaptation via Dynamic Aggregation of Linguistic Rules
Yanchen Liu, William Held, Diyi Yang
Existing large language models (LLMs) that mainly focus on Standard American English (SAE) often lead to significantly worse performance when being applied to other English dialect…
Can Large Language Models Transform Computational Social Science?
Caleb Ziems, William Held, Omar Shaikh +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of successfully performing many language processing tasks zero-shot (without training data). If zero-shot LLMs can also reliably classify a…