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most citedA methodology to characterize bias and harmful stereotypes in natural language processing in Latin America

3 citations · 5 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CY2026

Implicit Bias in LLMs for Transgender Populations

Micaela Hirsch, Marina Elichiry, Blas Radi +6

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to exhibit biases against LGBTQ+ populations. While safety training may lessen explicit expressions of bias, previous work has shown th…

cs.CY2025

Adaptive Data Collection for Latin-American Community-sourced Evaluation of Stereotypes (LACES)

Guido Ivetta, Pietro Palombini, Sofía Martinelli +5

The evaluation of societal biases in NLP models is critically hindered by a geo-cultural gap, This leaves regions such as Latin America severely underserved, making it impossible t…

cs.HC2025

Towards culturally-appropriate conversational AI for health in the majority world: An exploratory study with citizens and professionals in Latin America

Dorian Peters, Fernanda Espinoza, Marco da Re +3

There is justifiable interest in leveraging conversational AI (CAI) for health across the majority world, but to be effective, CAI must respond appropriately within culturally and…

cs.CL2025

Low-resource domain adaptation while minimizing energy and hardware resource consumption

Hernán Maina, Nicolás Wolovick, Luciana Benotti

Training Large Language Models (LLMs) is costly in terms of energy, hardware, and annotated data, often resulting in a positionality rooted in predominant cultures and values (Sant…

cs.CL2025

ROSA: Addressing text understanding challenges in photographs via ROtated SAmpling

Hernán Maina, Guido Ivetta, Mateo Lione Stuto +3

Visually impaired people could benefit from Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems to interpret text in their surroundings. However, current models often struggle with recognizing…

cs.CL2024

Selectively Answering Visual Questions

Julian Martin Eisenschlos, Hernán Maina, Guido Ivetta +1

Recently, large multi-modal models (LMMs) have emerged with the capacity to perform vision tasks such as captioning and visual question answering (VQA) with unprecedented accuracy.…

cs.CV2024

CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark

David Romero, Chenyang Lyu, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo +73

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an important task in multimodal AI, and it is often used to test the ability of vision-language models to understand and reason on knowledge pres…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

A methodology to characterize bias and harmful stereotypes in natural language processing in Latin America

Laura Alonso Alemany, Luciana Benotti, Hernán Maina +10

Automated decision-making systems, especially those based on natural language processing, are pervasive in our lives. They are not only behind the internet search engines we use da…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

A recipe for annotating grounded clarifications

Luciana Benotti, Patrick Blackburn

In order to interpret the communicative intents of an utterance, it needs to be grounded in something that is outside of language; that is, grounded in world modalities. In this pa…