4 papers
Anthropogenic Regional Adaptation in Multimodal Vision-Language Model
Samuel Cahyawijaya, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Tack Hwa Wong +45
While the field of vision-language (VL) has achieved remarkable success in integrating visual and textual information across multiple languages and domains, there is still no dedic…
PingPong: A Natural Benchmark for Multi-Turn Code-Switching Dialogues
Mohammad Rifqi Farhansyah, Hanif Muhammad Zhafran, Farid Adilazuarda +6
Code-switching is a widespread practice among the world's multilingual majority, yet few benchmarks accurately reflect its complexity in everyday communication. We present PingPong…
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…
Crowdsource, Crawl, or Generate? Creating SEA-VL, a Multicultural Vision-Language Dataset for Southeast Asia
Samuel Cahyawijaya, Holy Lovenia, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz +89
Southeast Asia (SEA) is a region of extraordinary linguistic and cultural diversity, yet it remains significantly underrepresented in vision-language (VL) research. This often resu…