3 papers
cs.CL2026
BavGround: A Benchmark for Regional Cultural Grounding and Dialect Competence in Bavarian
Jophin John, Michael Hoffmann, Jan Fillies +2
Cultural evaluation of large language models (LLMs) often focuses on high-resource standard languages, leaving regional culture and dialect communities underrepresented. We introdu…
cs.HC2025
Designing and Evaluating Malinowski's Lens: An AI-Native Educational Game for Ethnographic Learning
Michael Hoffmann, Jophin John, Jan Fillies +1
This study introduces 'Malinowski's Lens', the first AI-native educational game for anthropology that transforms Bronislaw Malinowski's 'Argonauts of the Western Pacific' (1922) in…
cs.CL2025
Llama-GENBA-10B: A Trilingual Large Language Model for German, English and Bavarian
Michael Hoffmann, Jophin John, Stefan Schweter +5
We present Llama-GENBA-10B, a trilingual foundation model addressing English-centric bias in large language models. Built on Llama 3.1-8B and scaled to 10B parameters, Llama-GENBA-…