6 papers
SEA-NLI: Natural Language Inference as a Lens into Southeast Asian Cultural Understanding
Peerawat Chomphooyod, Jian Gang Ngui, Yosephine Susanto +5
Frontier LLMs perform well in Western contexts, but remain poorly tested on underrepresented cultures such as those in Southeast Asia (SEA). Existing NLI benchmarks are largely Wes…
SEA-BED: How Do Embedding Models Represent Southeast Asian Languages?
Wuttikorn Ponwitayarat, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Raymond Ng +9
Multilingual text embeddings are often assumed to encode meaning in a perspective-independent semantic space, yielding stable similarity judgments across tasks and languages. Our r…
SEA-LION: Southeast Asian Languages in One Network
Raymond Ng, Thanh Ngan Nguyen, Yuli Huang +28
Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have dominated much of the artificial intelligence scene with their ability to process and generate natural languages. However, the majority…
Kalahi: A handcrafted, grassroots cultural LLM evaluation suite for Filipino
Jann Railey Montalan, Jian Gang Ngui, Wei Qi Leong +4
Multilingual large language models (LLMs) today may not necessarily provide culturally appropriate and relevant responses to its Filipino users. We introduce Kalahi, a cultural LLM…
SEA-HELM: Southeast Asian Holistic Evaluation of Language Models
Yosephine Susanto, Adithya Venkatadri Hulagadri, Jann Railey Montalan +7
With the rapid emergence of novel capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs), the need for rigorous multilingual and multicultural benchmarks that are integrated has become more…
Global MMLU: Understanding and Addressing Cultural and Linguistic Biases in Multilingual Evaluation
Shivalika Singh, Angelika Romanou, Clémentine Fourrier +21
Cultural biases in multilingual datasets pose significant challenges for their effectiveness as global benchmarks. These biases stem not only from differences in language but also…