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William Barr Held

3 accepted papers

2025

Culture Cartography: Mapping the Landscape of Cultural Knowledge

EMNLP 2025

To serve global users safely and productively, LLMs need culture-specific knowledge that might not be learned during pre-training. How do we find knowledge that is (1) salient to in-group users, but (2) unknown to LLMs? The most common solutions are single-initiative: either researchers define chall

2023

DADA: Dialect Adaptation via Dynamic Aggregation of Linguistic Rules

EMNLP 2023long main

Existing large language models (LLMs) that mainly focus on Standard American English (SAE) often lead to significantly worse performance when being applied to other English dialects. While existing mitigations tackle discrepancies for individual target dialects, they assume access to high-accuracy d…

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2023

Task-Agnostic Low-Rank Adapters for Unseen English Dialects

EMNLP 2023long main

Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on corpora disproportionally weighted in favor of Standard American English. As a result, speakers of other dialects experience significantly more failures when interacting with these technologies. In practice, these speakers often accommodate their speech t…

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