Papers by Sahar Heidariasl
We Politely Insist: Your LLM Must Learn the Persian Art of Taarof (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a new study examines the cultural competence of large language models to navigate complex social interactions. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate LLM understanding of Persian taarof . they evaluate 450 role-play scenarios covering 12 common social interaction topics . their results show significant gaps in cultural competence . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on Persian *taarof*, a social norm in Iranian interactions . the model improve despite culturally specific responses and gender-based asymmetries . |