5 papers
Steerable Cultural Preference Optimization of Reward Models
Minsik Oh, Advit Deepak, Sophie Wu +2
It is essential for large language model (LLM) technology to serve many different cultural sub-communities in a manner that is acceptable to each community. However, research on LL…
Reflections and New Directions for Human-Centered Large Language Models
Caleb Ziems, Dora Zhao, Rose E. Wang +55
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly shaping the private and professional lives of users, with numerous applications in business, education, finance, healthcare, law, and…
Lessons Without Borders? Evaluating Cultural Alignment of LLMs Using Multilingual Story Moral Generation
Sophie Wu, Andrew Piper
Stories are key to transmitting values across cultures, but their interpretation varies across linguistic and cultural contexts. Thus, we introduce multilingual story moral generat…
The Language of Interoception: Examining Embodiment and Emotion Through a Corpus of Body Part Mentions
Sophie Wu, Jan Philip Wahle, Saif M. Mohammad
This paper is the first investigation of the connection between emotion, embodiment, and everyday language in a large sample of natural language data. We created corpora of body pa…
BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin +45
People worldwide use language in subtle and complex ways to express emotions. Although emotion recognition--an umbrella term for several NLP tasks--impacts various applications wit…