Natural language processing for dialects of a language: A survey

A Joshi, R Dabre, D Kanojia, Z Li, H Zhan… - ACM Computing …, 2025 - dl.acm.org
State-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models are trained on massive training
corpora, and report a superlative performance on evaluation datasets. This survey delves …

Culturally aware and adapted nlp: A taxonomy and a survey of the state of the art

CC Liu, I Gurevych, A Korhonen - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.03930, 2024 - arxiv.org
The surge of interest in culturally aware and adapted Natural Language Processing (NLP)
has inspired much recent research. However, the lack of common understanding of the …

Survey of cultural awareness in language models: Text and beyond

S Pawar, J Park, J **, A Arora, J Myung… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large-scale deployment of large language models (LLMs) in various applications, such as
chatbots and virtual assistants, requires LLMs to be culturally sensitive to the user to ensure …

Going beyond Imagination! Enhancing Multi-modal Dialogue Agents with Synthetic Visual Descriptions

H Zhan, S Maruf, I Zukerman… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Building a dialogue agent that can seamlessly interact with humans in multi-modal regimes,
requires two fundamental abilities:(1) understanding emotion and dialogue acts within …

IMO: Greedy Layer-Wise Sparse Representation Learning for Out-of-Distribution Text Classification with Pre-trained Models

T Feng, L Qu, Z Li, H Zhan, Y Hua, G Haffari - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Machine learning models have made incredible progress, but they still struggle when
applied to examples from unseen domains. This study focuses on a specific problem of …

SocialMind: LLM-based Proactive AR Social Assistive System with Human-like Perception for In-situ Live Interactions

B Yang, Y Guo, L Xu, Z Yan, H Chen, G **ng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Social interactions are fundamental to human life. The recent emergence of large language
models (LLMs)-based virtual assistants has demonstrated their potential to revolutionize …

Culture is Not Trivia: Sociocultural Theory for Cultural NLP

N Zhou, D Bamman, IL Bleaman - arxiv preprint arxiv:2502.12057, 2025 - arxiv.org
The field of cultural NLP has recently experienced rapid growth, driven by a pressing need
to ensure that language technologies are effective and safe across a pluralistic user base …