5 papers
CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data
Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Laurie Burchell, Catherine Arnett +94
Language identification (LID) is a fundamental step in curating multilingual corpora. However, LID models still perform poorly for many languages, especially on the noisy and heter…
Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures
Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Sadallah +377
To date, there exist almost no culturally-specific evaluation benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) that cover a large number of languages and cultures. In this paper, we pre…
Anthropogenic Regional Adaptation in Multimodal Vision-Language Model
Samuel Cahyawijaya, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Tack Hwa Wong +45
While the field of vision-language (VL) has achieved remarkable success in integrating visual and textual information across multiple languages and domains, there is still no dedic…
Who Gets Left Behind? Auditing Disability Inclusivity in Large Language Models
Deepika Dash, Yeshil Bangera, Mithil Bangera +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for accessibility guidance, yet many disability groups remain underserved by their advice. To address this gap, we present taxono…
Crowdsource, Crawl, or Generate? Creating SEA-VL, a Multicultural Vision-Language Dataset for Southeast Asia
Samuel Cahyawijaya, Holy Lovenia, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz +89
Southeast Asia (SEA) is a region of extraordinary linguistic and cultural diversity, yet it remains significantly underrepresented in vision-language (VL) research. This often resu…