3 papers
cs.CL2026
IYKYK (But AI Doesn't): Automated Content Moderation Does Not Capture Communities' Heterogeneous Attitudes Towards Reclaimed Language
Christina Chance, Rebecca Pattichis, Arjun Subramonian +4
Reclaimed slur usage is a common and meaningful practice online for many marginalized communities. It serves as a source of solidarity, identity, and shared experience. However, co…
cs.CL2026
Translation as a Scalable Proxy for Multilingual Evaluation
Sheriff Issaka, Erick Rosas Gonzalez, Lieqi Liu +6
The rapid proliferation of LLMs has created a critical evaluation paradox: while LLMs claim multilingual proficiency, comprehensive non-machine-translated benchmarks exist for fewe…
cs.CL2025
The African Languages Lab: A Collaborative Approach to Advancing Low-Resource African NLP
Sheriff Issaka, Keyi Wang, Yinka Ajibola +17
Despite representing nearly one-third of the world's languages, African languages remain critically underserved by modern NLP technologies, with 88\% classified as severely underre…