Papers with cultural representations
Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | The Petit Larousse illustré is a French dictionary first published in 1905 . its value remains intact, but some descriptions are more historical than contemporary . wikidata identifiers can be used to identify, compare, and verify historically-situated representations . |
| Approach: | They propose a wikidata-based annotation of the Petit Larousse illustré entries from 1905 . they link the entries to current data sources and use them to extract, complement, and process knowledge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed lexical resource connects dictionary entries from 1905 to current data sources. |
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. |