Papers by Atharva Mehta
Women, Infamous, and Exotic Beings: A Comparative Study of Honorific Usages in Wikipedia and LLMs for Bengali and Hindi (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Honorifics encode nuanced socio-pragmatic cues such as power, age, gender, fame, and cultural distance. |
| Approach: | They propose to study third-person honorific usage across 10,000 Hindi and Bengali Wikipedia articles . honorifics are more prevalent in Bengali than in Hindi, while non-honorifics dominate . |
| Outcome: | The authors show that large language models internalize similar socio-pragmatic norms . their analysis shows that honorifics are more prevalent in Bengali than in Hindi . |
Music for All: Representational Bias and Cross-Cultural Adaptability of Music Generation Models (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing music generation models are limited in their coverage of the musical genres and cultures of the world. |
| Approach: | They propose to use parametric fine tuning techniques to mitigat the bias in existing music datasets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models are able to perform well across genres and cultures. |