Fostering Native and Cultural Inclusivity in LLMs

Birds-of-a-Feather Session at EMNLP 2024, November 13, 2024

This Birds of a Feather session explores strategies for enhancing large language models to better represent and serve diverse cultural and native aspects. The session begins with a presentation of recent research on incorporating native and cultural perspectives into LLMs, including challenges and advancements in multilingual and culturally aligned datasets. An open discussion follows, encouraging participants to share insights, use cases, and collaborative ideas for building more inclusive LLMs that respect and accurately reflect linguistic and cultural nuances.

Program

Time Title Presenter/Speaker Format
11:25 - 11:35 Native, Local and Cultural Aspects Firoj In-person
11:35 - 11:50 LLMs on Everyday Knowledge in Diverse Cultures and Languages Alice Oh In-person
11:50 - 11:15 CulturalVQA and Benchmarking VLMs for Cultural Understanding Shravan In-person
11:15 - 11:25 Survey of Cultural Awareness in Language Models: Text and Beyond Siddhesh Online
11:25 - 11:55 Panel + Open Discussion Alice, Isabelle, Shravan In-person