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GENDIS: Gender-Related Discourse and Stance in Multilingual YouTube Comments from India, Kenya, and Nigeria
Luise Koch, Manuel Tonneau, Niyati Malhotra +5
Research on gender-related online content is often operationalized through harm-centered tasks that collapse non-harmful gender-related and unrelated content, while existing datase…
"We Are Tired of Explaining": Communication Practice and AI Roleplay Training for Community Health Workers in Rural India
Neil K. R. Sehgal, Sunny Rai, Sai Preethi Matam +4
Community health workers (CHWs) in the Global South increasingly encounter AI-powered tools, yet the counseling work central to their role remains largely unsupported. We study com…
LLMs Mirror Country-Specific Gender Patterns If Asked, but Skew Male When Generating Media in Local Languages
Sharif Kazemi, Tanya Popli, Neil K. R. Sehgal +7
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate media, but whether their content perpetuates gender stereotypes is unknown: standard benchmarks rely on selection-bas…
Beyond Right and Wrong: Evaluating Second-order Social Reasoning in Large Language Models
Sunny Rai, Jinyi Kuang, Reyhan Jamalova +7
Previous AI alignment efforts have focused primarily on first-order social norms -- teaching models what is socially acceptable or unacceptable (e.g., `do not steal'). However, soc…
Conceptors for Semantic Steering
Ilias Triantafyllopoulos, Young-Min Cho, Ren Tao +6
Activation-based steering provides control of LLM behavior at inference time, but the dominant paradigm reduces each concept to a single direction whose geometry is left largely un…
Culturally-Aware Conversations: A Framework & Benchmark for LLMs
Shreya Havaldar, Sunny Rai, Young-Min Cho +1
Existing benchmarks that measure cultural adaptation in LLMs are misaligned with the actual challenges these models face when interacting with users from diverse cultural backgroun…
Large Language Model Chatbot Conversations vs Public Health Materials and Parental HPV Vaccination Intentions: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Neil K. R. Sehgal, Sunny Rai, Manuel Tonneau +6
Health care systems are increasingly considering large language model (LLM)-based chatbots for vaccine communication, but evidence that they improve durable, behaviorally relevant…
Multiscale Encoder and Omni-Dimensional Dynamic Convolution Enrichment in nnU-Net for Brain Tumor Segmentation
Sahaj K. Mistry, Sourav Saini, Aashray Gupta +5
Brain tumor segmentation plays a crucial role in computer-aided diagnosis. This study introduces a novel segmentation algorithm utilizing a modified nnU-Net architecture. Within th…
Building Knowledge-Guided Lexica to Model Cultural Variation
Shreya Havaldar, Salvatore Giorgi, Sunny Rai +4
Cultural variation exists between nations (e.g., the United States vs. China), but also within regions (e.g., California vs. Texas, Los Angeles vs. San Francisco). Measuring this r…
Cross-Cultural Differences in Mental Health Expressions on Social Media
Sunny Rai, Khushi Shelat, Devansh R Jain +6
Culture moderates the way individuals perceive and express mental distress. Current understandings of mental health expressions on social media, however, are predominantly derived…
Social Norms in Cinema: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Shame, Pride and Prejudice
Sunny Rai, Khushang Jilesh Zaveri, Shreya Havaldar +3
Shame and pride are social emotions expressed across cultures to motivate and regulate people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In this paper, we introduce the first cross-cultu…
An Integrative Survey on Mental Health Conversational Agents to Bridge Computer Science and Medical Perspectives
Young Min Cho, Sunny Rai, Lyle Ungar +2
Mental health conversational agents (a.k.a. chatbots) are widely studied for their potential to offer accessible support to those experiencing mental health challenges. Previous su…