@danielhers.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen. Cross-cultural Natural Language Processing, food and positive impact are my passion. Dad, kendoka and language learner. danielhers.github.io
New preprint: "Decoding Alignment: A Critical Survey of LLM Development Initiatives through Value-setting and Data-centric Lens" π Beyond a survey, this is a presentation of a series of concerns on what we could frame as "corporate" alignment #llms #ai arxiv.org/abs/2508.16982
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Paper title "Cultural Evaluations of Vision-Language Models Have a Lot to Learn from Cultural Theory"
I am excited to announce our latest work π "Cultural Evaluations of Vision-Language Models Have a Lot to Learn from Cultural Theory". We review recent works on culture in VLMs and argue for deeper grounding in cultural theory to enable more inclusive evaluations.
Paper π: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22793
πNew Preprintπ
Can Multimodal Retrieval Enhance Cultural Awareness in Vision-Language Models?
Excited to introduce RAVENEA, a new benchmark aimed at evaluating cultural understanding in VLMs through RAG.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.14462
More details:π
This incredible workshop is starting now! Join at room "Pecos" if you're at @naaclmeeting.bsky.social
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π£ Excited that our C3NLP 2025 Workshop program is finalized β just one week to go! π
Full program: c3nlp.github.io
Co-organized with @vinodkpg.bsky.social @sunipadev.bsky.social @lucianabenotti.bsky.social @yongcao.bsky.social @danielhers.bsky.social Laura Cabello, Ife Adebara, and Li Zhou. β€οΈ
@yongcao.bsky.social, Haijiang Liu, @rnv.bsky.social, @iaugenstein.bsky.social, @paul-rottger.bsky.social, @danielhers.bsky.social. Specializing Large Language Models to Simulate Survey Response Distributions for Global Populations.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.07068
#NAACL2025 #NLProc
We are hiring a law+NLP postdoc in Copenhagen! Deadline April 7:
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Culture is not trivia: sociocultural theory for cultural NLP. By Naitian Zhou and David Bamman from the Berkeley School of Information and Isaac L. Bleaman from Berkeley Linguistics.
There's been a lot of work on "culture" in NLP, but not much agreement on what it is.
A position paper by me, @dbamman.bsky.social, and @ibleaman.bsky.social on cultural NLP: what we want, what we have, and how sociocultural linguistics can clarify things.
Website: naitian.org/culture-not-...
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π£ C3NLP 2025 CFP now out π
Weβre thrilled to announce C3NLP will be at NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico! π
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Workshop Details: c3nlp.github.io
