3 papers
cs.HC2026
AI-Generated Email Drafts Shift Culturally Distinctive Communication Styles in Professional Email
Shintaro Sakai, Alice Gao, Yuichi Shoda +1
AI assistants that support email composition may shift cultural communication norms, such as the directness typical of low-context cultures like the US versus the indirectness and…
cs.CY2025
Gendered Cultural Discourse in Japan across the Prewar-Postwar Transition: Evidence from Historical Word Embeddings
Shintaro Sakai, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An +1
We quantify the evolution of gender stereotypes in Japan from 1900 to 1998, covering the prewar-postwar transition, using a series of yearly word embeddings trained on historical t…
cs.CL2025
Somatic in the East, Psychological in the West?: Investigating Clinically-Grounded Cross-Cultural Depression Symptom Expression in LLMs
Shintaro Sakai, Jisun An, Migyeong Kang +1
Prior clinical psychology research shows that Western individuals with depression tend to report psychological symptoms, while Eastern individuals report somatic ones. We test whet…