Papers by Medha Hira
MORPHOGEN: A Multilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Gender-Aware Morphological Generation (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | In morphologically rich languages, gender influences verb conjugation, pronouns, and even first-person constructions with explicit and implicit mentions of gender. |
| Approach: | They propose a morphologically grounded large-scale benchmark dataset for evaluating gender-aware generation in three typologically diverse grammatically gendered languages: French, Arabic, and Hindi. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset compares 15 popular multilingual large language models on their ability to handle morphological gender and morphology agreement. |
Mind the Gap: Multilingual Divide in LLM Bias Detection and Reasoning (2026.acl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in multilingual settings . but most bias evaluation remains English-centric and ignores how bias manifests within reasoning . |
| Approach: | They evaluate large language models with supervised fine-tuning and preference optimization . they find that bias varies substantially across languages, with consistent degradation in non-English settings . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves in English, Dutch, Spanish, and Turkish using the MBBQ benchmark. |