Is Human–LLM Interaction Culture-Dependent? A Cross-Linguistic NLP Analysis of Student Interviews on AI-Assisted Thesis Writing

Madalina Chitez, Karla Csuros, Dejana Jelena Milićević, Petya Osenova, Stefan Marinov, Teodor Valchev, Nikolay Paev, Otto Kruse, Christian Rapp, Andreea Dinca, Roxana Rogobete, Claudia Doroholschi, Loredana Punga, Anabella Costache, Dumitru Tucan, Cristina Baniceru


Abstract
This study investigates whether human–LLM interaction in academic writing exhibits cross-cultural variation. Using NLP-informed corpus methods, we analyze nine semi-structured student interviews from three national contexts (Romania, Bulgaria, Switzerland) to examine how AI use is linguistically constructed across three dimensions of epistemic positioning: agency strength, authority dynamics, and discourse-level stance. Results show a strong predominance of distancing and hedging strategies, with AI consistently framed as a functional writing support tool rather than an epistemic authority. At the same time, modest but systematic cross-country differences indicate culturally embedded variation in how students discursively negotiate epistemic responsibility and evaluation in AI-assisted writing practices.
Anthology ID:
2026.llms4ssh-1.4
Volume:
Proceedings of Shaping Multilingual, Multimodal AI for the Social Sciences and Humanities (LLMs4SSH) @ LREC 2026
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
Editors:
Arturo Montejo-Raez, Cristina Grisot, Joanna Blochowiak, Nikola Ljubešić, Elena Battaner, German Rigau
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LLMs4SSH | WS
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Publisher:
ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Pages:
39–44
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-llms4ssh-04
DOI:
10.63317/2mzwfdv4kba5
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Madalina Chitez, Karla Csuros, Dejana Jelena Milićević, Petya Osenova, Stefan Marinov, Teodor Valchev, Nikolay Paev, Otto Kruse, Christian Rapp, Andreea Dinca, Roxana Rogobete, Claudia Doroholschi, Loredana Punga, Anabella Costache, Dumitru Tucan, and Cristina Baniceru. 2026. Is Human–LLM Interaction Culture-Dependent? A Cross-Linguistic NLP Analysis of Student Interviews on AI-Assisted Thesis Writing. In Proceedings of Shaping Multilingual, Multimodal AI for the Social Sciences and Humanities (LLMs4SSH) @ LREC 2026, pages 39–44, Palma de Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Is Human–LLM Interaction Culture-Dependent? A Cross-Linguistic NLP Analysis of Student Interviews on AI-Assisted Thesis Writing (Chitez et al., LLMs4SSH 2026)
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