5 papers
Quantifying Media Representation Dynamics Across 25 Years of News Reporting on Policing-related Deaths
Farhan Samir, Jappun Dhillon, Meghna Ravikumar +2
We perform the largest known computational analysis of Canadian news narratives about police-involved deaths, spanning 4,000 articles from the last quarter-century. We develop a no…
When English Rewrites Local Knowledge: Global Narrative Dominance in Large Language Models
Md Arid Hasan, Ruwad Naswan, Farhan Samir +2
Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as cross-lingual knowledge interfaces. However, culturally grounded questions often reflect globally dominant narratives rather than lo…
WikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and other Language Editions
Zining Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, Dongwook Yoon +3
With more than 11 times as many pageviews as the next largest edition, English Wikipedia dominates global knowledge access relative to other language editions. Readers are prone to…
ZIPA: A family of efficient models for multilingual phone recognition
Jian Zhu, Farhan Samir, Eleanor Chodroff +1
We present ZIPA, a family of efficient speech models that advances the state-of-the-art performance of crosslinguistic phone recognition. We first curated IPAPack++, a large-scale…
Is It Bad to Work All the Time? Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Social Norm Biases in GPT-4
Zhuozhuo Joy Liu, Farhan Samir, Mehar Bhatia +2
LLMs have been demonstrated to align with the values of Western or North American cultures. Prior work predominantly showed this effect through leveraging surveys that directly ask…