10 papers
SurakshaEval: An Indic Safety Benchmark for Multilingual LLMs
Debopriyo Banerjee, Kapil Rajesh Kavitha, Angana Borah +11
Existing safety evaluation datasets for large language models (LLMs) predominantly focus on English and Western contexts, often overlooking the linguistic diversity and culturally…
Whose Norms? Disentangling Cultural and Personal Alignment in Large Language Models
Angana Borah, Isabelle Augenstein, Rada Mihalcea
Large language models are increasingly used for social decision-making situations that require balancing cultural norms with personal preferences. For example, a user preferring ho…
The Age of Curiosity Meets the Age of AI: Benchmarking Child Safety in Large Language Models
Samee Arif, Angana Borah, Rada Mihalcea
Children increasingly have access to Large Language Models (LLMs), which may expose them to responses that are developmentally inappropriate or require age-sensitive safety, guidan…
Belief-Sim: Towards Belief-Driven Simulation of Demographic Misinformation Susceptibility
Angana Borah, Zohaib Khan, Rada Mihalcea +1
Misinformation is a growing societal threat, and susceptibility to misinformative claims varies across demographic groups due to differences in underlying beliefs. As Large Languag…
NLP for Social Good: A Survey and Outlook of Challenges, Opportunities, and Responsible Deployment
Antonia Karamolegkou, Angana Borah, Eunjung Cho +30
Natural language processing (NLP) now shapes many aspects of our world, yet its potential for positive social impact is underexplored. This paper surveys work in ``NLP for Social G…
Physiologically Active Vegetation Reverses Its Cooling Effect in Humid Urban Climates
Angana Borah, Adrija Datta, Ashish S. Kumar +2
Efforts to green cities for cooling are succeeding unevenly because the same vegetation that cools surfaces can also intensify how hot the air feels. Previous studies have identifi…