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5 papers

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2025

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…