The paper explores how "culture" can be operationalised in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and what this reveals about the possibilities and limits of considering a plurality of cultural backgrounds in technological design. It proposes that cultural alignment cannot be achieved only by adding more examples of "other cultures", rather it requires plural epistemologies: allowing multiple, locally grounded ways of knowing.
arXiv:2607. 06544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Artificial Intelligence (AI) makes inroads into different parts of the Indian subcontinent, there is significant interest in studying how AI impacts the linguistic and cultural foundations of this civilization.
arXiv:2609.22494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in Cultural NLP, with substantial efforts to create globally inclusive NLP systems. The rapid growt...
The paper proposes a diagnostic analogy framework to analyze how generative AI reshapes cultural and epistemic practices. It breaks down interventions into three coordinates—epistemic site, governing logic, and technical mechanism—to differentiate structural consequences from those that can be designed. Applying this framework to information discovery and knowledge synthesis, the authors illustrate how shifts from indexicality to inference and from editorial authority to statistical consensus generate specific cultural effects and uncover governance levers hidden by broad analogies.
arXiv:2607. 11808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper proposes a human-centered artificial intelligence (HCAI) framework for AI-assisted lexicography.
arXiv:2607. 02369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs stage a new form of cultural encounter that is massive, automated, and monolingual.
arXiv:2511. 00206v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cognitive science faces ongoing challenges in research integration, formalization, conceptual clarity, and other areas, in part due to its multifaceted and interdisciplinary nature.
arXiv:2603.08275v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the global proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs), cultural safety, defined as the ability to generate respectful and appropriate...
arXiv:2607. 10331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-centered AI (HCAI) refers to guidelines or principles that aim on ethi-cally oriented design of systems.
arXiv:2607. 01250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sociotechnical alignment concerns the social desirability of AI behavior and is thus inherently normative, not merely technical.
arXiv:2609.13168v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech AI, any AI system that recognizes, transforms, or generates speech, is built and evaluated across two communities with only a small overlap: t...
Building language technologies and conducting NLP research for low-resource languages---particularly when led by native speakers or involving participatory research practices---are often framed as mea...
arXiv:2609.38486v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) and more broadly Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are often described and understood in human-like terms, a phenomen...