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Figurative and Cultural Knowledge in LLMs: Investigating Cross-Domain Transfer through Fine-Tuning
Mena Attia, Mona Diab, Thamar Solorio
Figurative language is deeply culturally embedded; fluent use requires not just linguistic competence but cultural immersion. We ask whether LLMs can learn this link: does fine-tun…
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…
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…