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Azadeh Shakery

4 accepted papers

2025

PerCul: A Story-Driven Cultural Evaluation of LLMs in Persian

NAACL 2025long

Large language models predominantly reflect Western cultures, largely due to the dominance of English-centric training data. This imbalance presents a significant challenge, as LLMs are increasingly used across diverse contexts without adequate evaluation of their cultural competence in non-English…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

PolitiSky24: U.S. Political Bluesky Dataset with User Stance Labels

EMNLP 2025

Stance detection identifies the viewpoint expressed in text toward a specific target, such as a political figure. While previous datasets have focused primarily on tweet-level stances from established platforms, user-level stance resources—especially on emerging platforms like Bluesky—remain scarce.

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

$\Lambda$-DARTS: Mitigating Performance Collapse by Harmonizing Operation Selection among Cells

ICLR 2023poster

Differentiable neural architecture search (DARTS) is a popular method for neural architecture search (NAS), which performs cell-search and utilizes continuous relaxation to improve the search efficiency via gradient-based optimization. The main shortcoming of DARTS is performance collapse, where the…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar
2021

ARMAN: Pre-training with Semantically Selecting and Reordering of Sentences for Persian Abstractive Summarization

EMNLP 2021main

Abstractive text summarization is one of the areas influenced by the emergence of pre-trained language models. Current pre-training works in abstractive summarization give more points to the summaries with more words in common with the main text and pay less attention to the semantic similarity betw…