Vinodkumar Prabhakaran

Had a great time co-organizing @c3_nlp this year w/ @YongCaoPlus @LiZhou21 @sunipa17 @LauraCabelloPi @daniel_hers @LucianaBenotti @IfeAdebara Packed room all day! Overheard someone saying c3nlp is trending! Didn't expect it back when we proposed it in 2022!

Yesterday we wrapped up the **Thought Summit on LLMs and Society** at Cornell — an energizing and deeply reflective gathering of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from several institutions and geographies. Over three days, we explored what it means to design and…

Join us for the keynotes and a panel discussion with Prof. Lise Dobrin and Prof. Elisabeth A. Mager Hois bringing in a cultural & linguistic anthropology lens on NLP

Happening now at #NAACL2025 in room Pecos. Kicking off with amazing talks and a panel by @monojitchou @IAugenstein & @KatiaShutova

📣 Excited about our Cross Cultural Considerations in NLP workshop! @c3_nlp @ @naaclmeeting coming up in no time—just two weeks to go! Full program here: c3nlp.github.io Co-org. w/ @sunipa17 @LucianaBenotti @daniel_hers @vinodkpg @YongCaoPlus @LiZhou21 @IfeAdebara ❤️

Project Vaani has released new open-source data from its Phase 1 which comprises of images, audio, and transcribed speech, encompassing 54 languages across 80 districts in 12 states of India. The dataset can be accessed here: vaani.iisc.ac.in bhashini.gov.in/sahyogi-projec…

📣 Second Call for Papers! 🎉 We’re extending our CFP to February 6, 2025 ⏳—more time to submit your work on culture, society & NLP! 📅 New Deadline: Feb 6, 2025 🔗 Workshop details: c3nlp.github.io Submit now & join us! 📝✨ #NLP #C3NLP #CulturalNLP #NAACL2025

Today, we have open-sourced the complete code for CUBE, including i) cube extraction code, ii) cultural diversity evaluations using Vendi score, and iii) CUBE dataset. Check it out! Github: github.com/google-deepmin… Thanks for all the interest, patience and discussions during…

I'll be presenting this on 13th Dec (Fri) at #NeurIPS2024 📍West Ballroom #5108 🕦 11 AM - 2PM I am excited to discuss CUBE: 1) cultural competence evaluation 2) our new T2I evaluation dimension for diversity, 3) pareto fronts and how T2I models are getting worse wrt diversity

📣 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 Co-organized w/ @vinodkpg @sunipa17 @LucianaBenotti @daniel_hers @YongCaoPlus @LauraCabelloPi @LiZhou21 @IfeAdebara

Can LLMs cater to diverse cultures in text generation? We find: 1️⃣lexical variance across nationalities 2️⃣culturally salient words 3️⃣weak correlation w/ cultural values 📜arxiv.org/abs/2406.11565 🤗huggingface.co/datasets/shail… 💻github.com/shaily99/eecc 🎉@emnlpmeeting🎉 w/ @841io 🧵

Excited for tomorrow to present our work on LLM response stability in the context of political bias assessment at @COLM_conf! Stop by between 9 and 11 at poster #39. Joint work w/@j_vamvas and @LenaAJaeger. 🔗 openreview.net/pdf?id=7xUtka9…

Tomorrow at @COLM_conf in Session 3 oral spotlights, and the poster session afterwards ... I'll be there w/ one of the lead authors @aidaa, and coauthor @sunipa17. Come say hi.

Thrilled to have this paper accepted at #NeurIPS24 in the datasets and benchmark track! Even more thrilled that this is work led by our fantastic pre-doc @NithishKannen who'll be applying to PhD programs soon. Keep an eye out for his application to your department :)

Our pick of the week by @BeatriceSavoldi: "Power to the People? Opportunities and Challenges for Participatory AI" by @Abebab, @wsisaac, @vinodkpg, @blahtino, @m_c_elish, @IasonGabriel, and @shakir_za (EAAMO 2022) dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114… #AI

Thrilled to have this paper selected as one of the 22/~300 papers for oral spotlights at @COLM_conf. Data & models to detect generalizing language, and distinguish mentions from evocations of stereotypes, with implications for LLM evals & data curation Led by @aidaa @gv_sagar

Congrats, friend! @IasonGabriel, so well deserved!