3 papers
cs.CL2025
Collective Narrative Grounding: Community-Coordinated Data Contributions to Improve Local AI Systems
Zihan Gao, Mohsin Y. K. Yousufi, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
Large language model (LLM) question-answering systems often fail on community-specific queries, creating "knowledge blind spots" that marginalize local voices and reinforce epistem…
cs.CL2025
LocalBench: Benchmarking LLMs on County-Level Local Knowledge and Reasoning
Zihan Gao, Yifei Xu, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
Large language models (LLMs) have been widely evaluated on macro-scale geographic tasks, such as global factual recall, event summarization, and regional reasoning. Yet, their abil…
cs.HC2025
A Turing Test for ''Localness'': Conceptualizing, Defining, and Recognizing Localness in People and Machines
Zihan Gao, Justin Cranshaw, Jacob Thebault-Spieker
As digital platforms increasingly mediate interactions tied to place, ensuring genuine local participation is essential for maintaining trust and credibility in location-based serv…