6 papers
Making a Name for Myself: On Academic Naming Policies and their Impact
A Pranav, Vagrant Gautam, Martin Mundt +6
In academic publishing, names connect scholars to their work. When scholars change their names, including for marriage, academic recognition, or gender transition, they may lose cr…
Ouvia: A User-centered Framework for Measuring Usability of Speech Translation in Real-World Communication Scenarios
Giuseppe Attanasio, Beatrice Savoldi, Daniel Chechelnitsky +4
Speech translation (ST) is increasingly adopted in user applications, yet its evaluation largely focuses on decontextualized testbeds and holistic quality, rather than end users' c…
Empire Amplifier: Uncovering and Contesting the Prioritization of Colonial Content on Platforms Through Community-Informed Algorithmic Auditing
Nel Escher, Bakyt Yrysov, Ashley McDermott +3
Though online platforms claim to amplify Indigenous voices, Indigenous communities are worried that these systems are instead eroding their language and culture. We conduct a commu…
Locating Translation as a Craft in the Age of AI Translation
Daniel Chechelnitsky, Sireesh Gururaja, Seyi Olojo +4
Rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) and similar automated approaches for translation tasks is increasingly affecting the landscape of translation technologies. As con…
Not Like Us, Hunty: Measuring Perceptions and Behavioral Effects of Minoritized Anthropomorphic Cues in LLMs
Jeffrey Basoah, Daniel Chechelnitsky, Tao Long +5
As large language models (LLMs) increasingly adapt and personalize to diverse sets of users, there is an increased risk of systems appropriating sociolects, i.e., language styles o…
Rejected Dialects: Biases Against African American Language in Reward Models
Joel Mire, Zubin Trivadi Aysola, Daniel Chechelnitsky +3
Preference alignment via reward models helps build safe, helpful, and reliable large language models (LLMs). However, subjectivity in preference judgments and the lack of represent…