3 papers
cs.CL2026
Toward Cultural Alignment: Human-Centered Evaluation of Multimodal AI Stories Across Five African Communities
Millicent Ochieng, Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Elizabeth A. Ankrah +8
In this paper, we examine how well AI-generated multimodal stories align with the lived practices, relationships, language, values, and visual expectations of the communities they…
cs.CV2026
Harm is not Universal: Community-Specific Toxicity Detection is Urgently Needed
Xinnuo Xu, Anja Thieme, Daniela Massiceti +6
State-of-the-art toxicity detectors for text-to-image generation adopt a one-size-fits-all approach: a single universal model applying fixed safety guidelines to all users. Our emp…
cs.CL2025
Reasoning Beyond Labels: Measuring LLM Sentiment in Low-Resource, Culturally Nuanced Contexts
Millicent Ochieng, Anja Thieme, Ignatius Ezeani +5
Sentiment analysis in low-resource, culturally nuanced contexts challenges conventional NLP approaches that assume fixed labels and universal affective expressions. We present a di…