11 papers
When Cultures Meet: Multicultural Text-to-Image Generation
Parth Bhalerao, Mounika Yalamarty, Brian Trinh +1
Text-to-image generation models have achieved strong performance in culturally homogeneous settings, yet their ability to generate multicultural scenes, where people and landmarks…
Beyond Translation: Cross-Cultural Meme Transcreation with Vision-Language Models
Yuming Zhao, Peiyi Zhang, Oana Ignat
Memes are a pervasive form of online communication, yet their cultural specificity poses significant challenges for cross-cultural adaptation. We study cross-cultural meme transcre…
Beyond Factual QA: Mentorship-Oriented Question Answering over Long-Form Multilingual Content
Parth Bhalerao, Diola Dsouza, Ruiwen Guan +1
Question answering systems are typically evaluated on factual correctness, yet many real-world applications-such as education and career guidance-require mentorship: responses that…
NLP for Social Good: A Survey and Outlook of Challenges, Opportunities, and Responsible Deployment
Antonia Karamolegkou, Angana Borah, Eunjung Cho +30
Natural language processing (NLP) now shapes many aspects of our world, yet its potential for positive social impact is underexplored. This paper surveys work in ``NLP for Social G…
Culture Affordance Atlas: Reconciling Object Diversity Through Functional Mapping
Joan Nwatu, Longju Bai, Oana Ignat +1
Culture shapes the objects people use and for what purposes, yet mainstream Vision-Language (VL) datasets frequently exhibit cultural biases, disproportionately favoring higher-inc…
BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin +45
People worldwide use language in subtle and complex ways to express emotions. Although emotion recognition--an umbrella term for several NLP tasks--impacts various applications wit…