From Surveys to Narratives: Rethinking Cultural Value Adaptation in LLMs (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Adapting cultural values in Large Language Models presents significant challenges due to biases and data limitations. |
| Approach: | They propose to augment World Values Survey (WVS) data with encyclopedic and scenario-based cultural narratives from Wikipedia and NormAd to address these limitations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach enhances cultural distinctiveness and improves classification performance across cultures. |
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