2 papers
cs.CL2025
Hire Your Anthropologist! Rethinking Culture Benchmarks Through an Anthropological Lens
Mai AlKhamissi, Yunze Xiao, Badr AlKhamissi +1
Cultural evaluation of large language models has become increasingly important, yet current benchmarks often reduce culture to static facts or homogeneous values. This view conflic…
cs.CL2025
Beyond Understanding: Evaluating the Pragmatic Gap in LLMs' Cultural Processing of Figurative Language
Mena Attia, Aashiq Muhamed, Mai Alkhamissi +2
We present a comprehensive evaluation of the ability of large language models (LLMs) to process culturally grounded language, specifically to understand and pragmatically use figur…