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Probing techniques for large language models (LLMs) have primarily focused on English, overlooking the vast majority of the world's languages. In this paper, we extend these probing methods to a multilingual context, investigating the…

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The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into recommender systems has enabled zero-shot, personality-based personalization through prompt-based interactions, offering a new paradigm for user-centric recommendations. However,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Chandan Kumar Sah

Do large language models (LLMs) exhibit sociodemographic biases, even when they decline to respond? To bypass their refusal to "speak," we study this research question by probing contextualized embeddings and exploring whether this bias is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Raphael Tang , Xinyu Zhang , Jimmy Lin , Ferhan Ture

Large Language Models (LLMs) have raised significant concerns regarding the fair use of copyright-protected content. While prior studies have examined the extent to which LLMs reproduce copyrighted materials, they have predominantly focused…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yupeng Chen , Xiaoyu Zhang , Yixian Huang , Qian Xie

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in high-stakes domains, yet how they reason about socially sensitive decisions remains underexplored. We present a large-scale audit of LLMs' treatment of socioeconomic status (SES) in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Huy Nghiem , Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le , John Prindle , Rachel Rudinger , Hal Daumé

Large Language Model (LLM) safety is inherently pluralistic, reflecting variations in moral norms, cultural expectations, and demographic contexts. Yet, existing alignment datasets such as ANTHROPIC-HH and DICES rely on demographically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Usman Naseem , Gautam Siddharth Kashyap , Sushant Kumar Ray , Rafiq Ali , Ebad Shabbir , Abdullah Mohammad

Although mathematics is often considered culturally neutral, the way mathematical problems are presented can carry implicit cultural context. Existing benchmarks like GSM8K are predominantly rooted in Western norms, including names,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Aditya Tomar , Nihar Ranjan Sahoo , Ashish Mittal , Rudra Murthy , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate varying performance across languages and cultural contexts. This study introduces a novel, culturally-rich, multilingual dataset derived from video recordings of the Romanian game show "Who Wants to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Alexandru-Gabriel Ganea , Antonia-Adelina Popovici , Adrian-Marius Dumitran

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in representing individuals and communities, offering new ways to study complex social dynamics. However, effectively aligning LLMs with specific human groups and systematically assessing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Minh Duc Chu , Zihao He , Rebecca Dorn , Kristina Lerman

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have recently achieved significant progress, demonstrating strong capabilities in open-world visual understanding. However, it is not yet clear how LVLMs address demographic biases in real life,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xuyang Wu , Yuan Wang , Hsin-Tai Wu , Zhiqiang Tao , Yi Fang

The zero-shot capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled highly flexible, reference-free metrics for various tasks, making LLM evaluators common tools in NLP. However, the robustness of these LLM evaluators remains relatively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Rickard Stureborg , Dimitris Alikaniotis , Yoshi Suhara

Many applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) require them to either simulate people or offer personalized functionality, making the demographic representativeness of LLMs crucial for equitable utility. At the same time, we know little…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Indira Sen , Marlene Lutz , Elisa Rogers , David Garcia , Markus Strohmaier

The global deployment of large language models (LLMs) has raised concerns about cultural misalignment, yet the linguistic properties of fine-tuning datasets used for cultural adaptation remain poorly understood. We adopt a dataset-centric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Reem I. Masoud , Chen Feng , Shunta Asano , Saied Alshahrani , Philip Colin Treleaven , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

The rapid growth of Large Language Models (LLMs) has put forward the study of biases as a crucial field. It is important to assess the influence of different types of biases embedded in LLMs to ensure fair use in sensitive fields. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jayanta Sadhu , Maneesha Rani Saha , Rifat Shahriyar

Patients with diabetes are at increased risk of comorbid depression or anxiety, complicating their management. This study evaluated the performance of large language models (LLMs) in detecting these symptoms from secure patient messages. We…

We introduce MENAValues, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate the cultural alignment and multilingual biases of large language models (LLMs) with respect to the beliefs and values of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Pardis Sadat Zahraei , Ehsaneddin Asgari

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant popularity for their application in various everyday tasks such as text generation, summarization, and information retrieval. As the widespread adoption of LLMs continues to surge, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Pagnarasmey Pit , Xingjun Ma , Mike Conway , Qingyu Chen , James Bailey , Henry Pit , Putrasmey Keo , Watey Diep , Yu-Gang Jiang

This paper provides an in-depth evaluation of three state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) for personalized career mentoring in the computing field, using three distinct student profiles that consider gender, race, and professional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xiao Luo , Sean O'Connell , Shamima Mithun

The emergence of unveiling human-like behaviors in Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to a closer connection between NLP and human psychology. Scholars have been studying the inherent personalities exhibited by LLMs and attempting to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Lucio La Cava , Andrea Tagarelli

The widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) underscores the urgent need to ensure their fairness. However, LLMs frequently present dominant viewpoints while ignoring alternative perspectives from minority parties, resulting in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Tianlin Li , Xiaoyu Zhang , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Qian Liu , Qing Guo , Chao Shen , Yang Liu