Papers by Alba Cercas Curry
Divine LLaMAs: Bias, Stereotypes, Stigmatization, and Emotion Representation of Religion in Large Language Models (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Previous work has shown that LLMs display biases in emotion attribution along gender lines. |
| Approach: | They examine how different religions are represented in LLMs by examining emotion attribution and cultural biases. |
| Outcome: | The findings highlight the need to address and rectify these biases in LLMs. |
Seeing Race, Feeling Bias: Emotion Stereotyping in Multimodal Language Models (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Emotion stereotypes are also tightly tied to race and skin tone, but previous studies have overlooked this dimension. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal study of racial, gender, and skin-tone bias in emotion attribution . they evaluate four open-source MLLMs using 2.1K emotion-related events . |
| Outcome: | The proposed study examines four open-source MLLMs using 2.1K emotion-related events paired with 400 neutral face images across three different prompt strategies. |
Computer says “No”: The Case Against Empathetic Conversational AI (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent work in conversational AI has focused on responding empathetically to users' emotions without a real basis. |
| Approach: | They argue that we must carefully consider whether and how to respond to users' emotions. |
| Outcome: | Recent work in conversational AI has focused on responding empathetically to users' emotions without a real basis. |
Angry Men, Sad Women: Large Language Models Reflect Gendered Stereotypes in Emotion Attribution (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models reflect societal norms and biases, especially about gender. |
| Approach: | They propose to use large language models to examine gendered emotion attribution in five state-of-the-art LLMs to investigate whether emotions are genderes and whether they are influenced by societal stereotypes. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models exhibit gendered emotions, influenced by gender stereotypes, and the results are consistent with established research in psychology and gender studies. |