| Challenge: | Cultural norms are behavioral rules and conventions shared within specific groups, connecting cultural symbols and values. |
| Approach: | They propose a task that operationalizes cultural variations in language understanding through a natural language inference task that surfaces cultural variations as label disagreement between annotators from different cultural groups. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be evaluated at which levels it is culturally aware. |
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