Daniel Hershcovich

Paper title "Cultural Evaluations of Vision-Language Models Have a Lot to Learn from Cultural Theory"

I am excited to announce our latest work 🎉 "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 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22793

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🚀New Preprint🚀
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:👇

23.05.2025 17:04 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2

This incredible workshop is starting now! Join at room "Pecos" if you're at @naaclmeeting.bsky.social

04.05.2025 15:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📣 Excited that our C3NLP 2025 Workshop program is finalized — just one week to go! 🎉

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. ❤️

28.04.2025 08:27 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 3

@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

28.04.2025 15:56 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

3-year Postdoc in Natural Language Processing and Law

We are hiring a law+NLP postdoc in Copenhagen! Deadline April 7:
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

24.03.2025 17:42 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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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18.02.2025 20:45 — 👍 121    🔁 35    💬 5    📌 3

C3NLP @ NAACL 2025

📣 C3NLP 2025 CFP now out 🎉

We’re thrilled to announce C3NLP will be at NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico! 🌎

📅 Workshop Details: c3nlp.github.io

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