To enhance language models' cultural awareness, we design a generalizable pipeline to construct cultural knowledge bases from different online communities on a massive scale. With the pipeline, we construct CultureBank, a knowledge base built upon users' self-narratives with 12K cultural descriptors sourced from TikTok and 11K from Reddit. Unlike previous cultural knowledge resources, CultureBank contains diverse views on cultural descriptors to allow flexible interpretation of cultural knowledge, and contextualized cultural scenarios to help grounded evaluation. With CultureBank, we evaluate different LLMs' cultural awareness, and identify areas for improvement. We also fine-tune a language model on CultureBank: experiments show that it achieves better performances on two downstream cultural tasks in a zero-shot setting. Finally, we offer recommendations based on our findings for future culturally aware language technologies. The project page is https://culturebank.github.io . The code and model is at https://github.com/SALT-NLP/CultureBank . The released CultureBank dataset is at https://huggingface.co/datasets/SALT-NLP/CultureBank .
Towards culturally-appropriate conversational AI for health in the majority world: An exploratory study with citizens and professionals in Latin America
Imperial College London（帝国理工学院）；University of Cambridge（剑桥大学）；La Victoria Lab（拉维多利亚实验室）；Universidad Nacional de Córdoba（科尔多瓦国立大学）
Evaluating Health Misinformation in Low-Resource Languages: Integrating Small Language Models with a Culturally-Sensitive Responsible NLP Framework (Bangla as a Case Study)
Western Sydney University（西悉尼大学）；Microsoft（微软公司）；Excelsia College（埃克塞尔西亚学院）；Faulconbridge Health Centre（福尔康布里奇健康中心）
The NaijaVoices Dataset: Cultivating Large-Scale, High-Quality, Culturally-Rich Speech Data for African Languages
Lanfrica（兰非拉）；NaijaVoices（尼日利亚之声）；Mila - Quebec AI Institute（魁北克人工智能研究所）；MLCollective（机器学习集体）；The Ohio State University（俄亥俄州立大学）；INRIA（法国国家信息与自动化技术研究院）；Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike Ikwo（阿莱克斯·埃克韦梅联邦大学）；Obafemi Awolowo University（奥巴费米·阿沃尔奥大学）；Polytechnique Montreal（蒙特利尔理工学院）；University of Montreal（蒙特利尔大学）；McGill University（麦吉尔大学）；Canada CIFAR AI Chair（加拿大CIFAR人工智能主席）
LLMs as Cultural Archives: Cultural Commonsense Knowledge Graph Extraction
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence（莫扎德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学）；Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab)（无处不在知识处理实验室）；Department of Computer Science（计算机科学系）；Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI)（黑森人工智能中心）；Technische Universität Darmstadt（德累斯顿技术大学）
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Wrocław University of Science and Technology（沃斯克拉大学人工智能系）；NASK National Research Institute（国家研究 institute）；National Information Processing Institute（国家信息处理研究所）；Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences（波兰科学院斯拉夫研究学院）；Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences（波兰科学院计算机科学研究所）；University of Łódź（卢布林大学）
PLLuM 是波兰研究机构联合开发的最大开源波兰语大语言模型系列，通过构建大规模波兰语语料库、指令与偏好数据集及负责任人工智能框架，提升波兰语 AI 能力并推动主权人工智能技术发展。
Digital hybridity and relics in cultural heritage: using corpus linguistics to inform design in emerging technologies from AI to VR
School of English, University of Nottingham（诺丁汉大学英语学院）；School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham（诺丁汉大学计算机科学学院）；Department of Modern Languages, Aberystwyth University（阿伯里斯特威斯大学现代语言系）
SimInterview: Transforming Business Education through Large Language Model-Based Simulated Multilingual Interview Training System
Analytics Everywhere Lab, University of New Brunswick, Canada（新不伦瑞克大学分析 everywhere 实验室）；University of Foreign Language Studies, University of Danang, Vietnam（越南丹绒大学外语学院）；Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam（越南胡志明市大学信息科技学院）；Faculty of Economics and Accounting, Quy Nhon University, Vietnam（越南奎隆大学经济与会计学院）；Faculty of Natural Sciences, Quy Nhon University, Vietnam（越南奎隆大学自然科学学院）
DRISHTIKON: A Multimodal Multilingual Benchmark for Testing Language Models' Understanding on Indian Culture
Indian Institute of Technology Patna（印度理工学院帕纳巴分校）；Banasthali Vidyapeeth University（班纳萨利大学）；Pandit Deendayal Energy University（德英德能源大学）；Manipal University Jaipur（马哈拉施特拉邦大学贾伊普尔分校）；Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering（德瓦尔卡斯J.桑格维工程学院）
North Africa's Missing Framework: NLP-Driven Mental Healthcare in Algeria and Implications for Low-resource Settings
University Mohamed El Bachir El Ibrahimi of Bordj Bou Arreridj（布吉布阿雷里吉·穆罕默德·巴希尔·易卜拉欣大学）；Laboratory of Informatics and its Applications of M’sila（姆西拉信息学及其应用实验室）；Laboratory of Materials and Electronic Systems（材料与电子系统实验室）
