3 papers
cs.CL2026
Chronologic: Measuring Language Models' Ability to Represent the Past
Ted Underwood, Ziliang Qiu, Sarah Griebel +4
Language models are appealing tools for research on the past. But to trust the evidence a model provides, researchers need to know whether its responses fit the period represented.…
cs.CL2025
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…
cs.CL2025
Can Language Models Represent the Past without Anachronism?
Ted Underwood, Laura K. Nelson, Matthew Wilkens
Before researchers can use language models to simulate the past, they need to understand the risk of anachronism. We find that prompting a contemporary model with examples of perio…