arXiv:2608.21369v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Nigerian Pidgin is one of Africa's most widely spoken languages, yet remains severely underrepresented in language model evaluation. Existing benchma...
By Stephanie Okoye
The paper introduces a rubric-based benchmark to evaluate Saudi Arabic dialect and cultural competence in large language models. It comprises 31 expert-authored prompts covering idiomatic, pragmatic, lexical, and culturally embedded aspects, each paired with an expert-established ground truth. Four state-of-the-art models were scored, revealing that none exceeded 55% accuracy and that ambiguous framing was the most common error type.
By Ghassan Al-Sumaidaee, Sajjad Abdoli, Ahmed Rashad, Maxim Legg
arXiv:2604. 19139v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve through alignment techniques such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and Constitutional AI, a growing and increasingly conspicuous phenomenon has emerged: the proliferation of verbal tics--repetitive, formulaic linguistic patterns that pervade model outputs.
By Shuai Wu, Xue Li, Yanna Feng, Yufang Li, Zhijun Wang, Ran Wang
arXiv:2609.05806v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) aims to identify speakers' emotions in multi-turn dialogue. Accurate emotion recognition can support a wide...
By Amir Ben Khalifa, Fanny Bezancon, Amine Trabelsi, Bessam Abdulrazak
arXiv:2606. 03334v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Our submission presented in this paper is for SemEval-2026 Task 9: Multilingual Text Classification Challenge - Polarization Detection and it covers all three subtasks: (1) binary polarization detection, (2) polarization type classification and (3) polarization manifestation identification.
By Pritam Kadasi, Anuj Tiwari, Mayank Singh
arXiv:2601. 00181v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We address two persistent gaps in Emotion Recognition in Conversation: which modeling choices materially affect performance, and how recognition findings connect to interpretable discourse-level patterns.
By Cheonkam Jeong, Adeline Nyamathi