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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in everyday communication, including multilingual interactions across different cultural contexts. While LLMs can now generate near-perfect literal translations, it remains unclear whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Helene Tenzer , Oumnia Abidi , Stefan Feuerriegel

The rapid rise in popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) with emerging capabilities has spurred public curiosity to evaluate and compare different LLMs, leading many researchers to propose their own LLM benchmarks. Noticing preliminary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Timothy R. McIntosh , Teo Susnjak , Nalin Arachchilage , Tong Liu , Paul Watters , Malka N. Halgamuge

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human opinions and survey responses, but their ability to reproduce population responses across cultures remains limited. Existing persona-based prompting methods typically rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Axel Abels , Elias Fernandez Domingos , Apurva Shah , Tom Lenaerts

Persona assignment has become a common strategy for customizing LLM use to particular tasks and contexts. In this study, we explore how evaluation of different nations change when LLMs are assigned specific nationality personas. We assign…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Mahammed Kamruzzaman , Gene Louis Kim

Ethical reasoning is a crucial skill for Large Language Models (LLMs). However, moral values are not universal, but rather influenced by language and culture. This paper explores how three prominent LLMs -- GPT-4, ChatGPT, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Utkarsh Agarwal , Kumar Tanmay , Aditi Khandelwal , Monojit Choudhury

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly operate in environments where they encounter social information such as other agents' answers, tool outputs, or human recommendations. In humans, such inputs influence judgments in ways that depend…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Anooshka Bajaj , Zoran Tiganj

Large language models (LLMs) have brought breakthroughs in tasks including translation, summarization, information retrieval, and language generation, gaining growing interest in the CHI community. Meanwhile, the literature shows…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Lu Wang , Max Song , Rezvaneh Rezapour , Bum Chul Kwon , Jina Huh-Yoo

As large language models (LLMs) expand into performing as agents for real-world applications beyond traditional NLP tasks, evaluating their robustness becomes increasingly important. However, existing benchmarks often overlook critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Haoyi Qiu , Alexander R. Fabbri , Divyansh Agarwal , Kung-Hsiang Huang , Sarah Tan , Nanyun Peng , Chien-Sheng Wu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel in multimodal tasks but often exhibit Western-centric biases, limiting their effectiveness in culturally diverse regions like Southeast Asia (SEA). To address this, we introduce RICE-VL, a novel benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Tushar Pranav , Eshan Pandey , Austria Lyka Diane Bala , Aman Chadha , Indriyati Atmosukarto , Donny Soh Cheng Lock

Large Language Models are being used in conversational agents that simulate human conversations and generate social studies data. While concerns about the models' biases have been raised and discussed in the literature, much about the data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Guido Ivetta , Laura Moradbakhti , Rafael A. Calvo

As LLMs are globally deployed, aligning their cultural value orientations is critical for safety and user engagement. However, existing benchmarks face the Construct-Composition-Context ($C^3$) challenge: relying on discriminative,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jaehyeok Lee , Xiaoyuan Yi , Jing Yao , Hyunjin Hwang , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Xing Xie , JinYeong Bak

As the utilization of large language models (LLMs) has proliferated world-wide, it is crucial for them to have adequate knowledge and fair representation for diverse global cultures. In this work, we uncover culture perceptions of three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Huihan Li , Liwei Jiang , Jena D. Hwang , Hyunwoo Kim , Sebastin Santy , Taylor Sorensen , Bill Yuchen Lin , Nouha Dziri , Xiang Ren , Yejin Choi

With the rapid evolution of large language models (LLMs), there is a growing concern that they may pose risks or have negative social impacts. Therefore, evaluation of human values alignment is becoming increasingly important. Previous work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Guohai Xu , Jiayi Liu , Ming Yan , Haotian Xu , Jinghui Si , Zhuoran Zhou , Peng Yi , Xing Gao , Jitao Sang , Rong Zhang , Ji Zhang , Chao Peng , Fei Huang , Jingren Zhou

Culture is a core component of human-to-human interaction and plays a vital role in how we perceive and interact with others. Advancements in the effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) in generating human-sounding text have greatly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-15 James Luther , Donald Brown

Cultural values are expressed not only through language but also through visual scenes and everyday social practices. Yet existing evaluations of cultural values in language models are almost entirely text-only, making it unclear whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zhipin Wang , Christoph Leiter , Christian Frey , Mohamed Hesham Ibrahim Abdalla , Josif Grabocka , Steffen Eger

The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in real-world applications presents both opportunities and challenges, particularly in multilingual and code-mixed communication settings. This research evaluates the performance of seven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Millicent Ochieng , Varun Gumma , Sunayana Sitaram , Jindong Wang , Vishrav Chaudhary , Keshet Ronen , Kalika Bali , Jacki O'Neill

Large language models (LLMs) often reflect real-world biases, leading to efforts to mitigate these effects and make the models unbiased. Achieving this goal requires defining clear criteria for an unbiased state, with any deviation from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Changgeon Ko , Jisu Shin , Hoyun Song , Jeongyeon Seo , Jong C. Park

The alignment of large language models (LLMs) with human values is critical for their safe and effective deployment across diverse user populations. However, existing benchmarks often neglect cultural and demographic diversity, leading to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yao Liang , Dongcheng Zhao , Feifei Zhao , Guobin Shen , Yuwei Wang , Dongqi Liang , Yi Zeng

Knowledge Editing (KE) has emerged as a promising paradigm for updating facts in Large Language Models (LLMs) without retraining. However, progress in Multilingual Knowledge Editing (MKE) is currently hindered by biased evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yucheng Hu , Wei Zhou , Juesi Xiao

The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) requires robust evaluation of their alignment with local values and ethical standards, especially as existing benchmarks often reflect the cultural, legal, and ideological values of their…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Gwenyth Isobel Meadows , Nicholas Wai Long Lau , Eva Adelina Susanto , Chi Lok Yu , Aditya Paul