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title = "Progressing beyond Art Masterpieces or Touristic Clich{\'e}s: how to assess your {LLM}s for cultural alignment?",
author = "Branco, Ant{\'o}nio and
Silva, Jo{\~a}o Ricardo and
Marques, Nuno and
Gomes, Luis M. S. and
Campos, Ricardo and
Sequeira, Raquel and
Nerea, Sara and
Silva, Rodrigo and
Marques, Miguel and
Duarte, Rodrigo and
Putyato, Artur and
Folques, Diogo and
Valente, Tiago",
editor = "Morger, Felix and
Ilinykh, Nikolai and
Scalvini, Barbara and
Dobnik, Simon and
Dann{\'e}lls, Dana",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on the Role of Resources in the Age of Large Language Models ({RESOURCEFUL} 2026)",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.resourceful-4.13/",
doi = "10.63317/37qvfzetoj3r",
pages = "131--141",
abstract = "Although the cultural (mis)alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has attracted increasing attention - often framed in terms of cultural bias - until recently there has been limited work on the design and development of datasets for cultural assessment. Here, we review existing approaches to such datasets and identify their main limitations. To address these issues, we propose design guidelines for annotators and report on the construction of a dataset built according to these principles. We further present a series of contrastive experiments conducted with this dataset. The results demonstrate that our design yields test sets with greater discriminative power, effectively distinguishing between models specialized for a given culture and those that are not, ceteris paribus."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Progressing beyond Art Masterpieces or Touristic Clichés: how to assess your LLMs for cultural alignment?
%A Branco, António
%A Silva, João Ricardo
%A Marques, Nuno
%A Gomes, Luis M. S.
%A Campos, Ricardo
%A Sequeira, Raquel
%A Nerea, Sara
%A Silva, Rodrigo
%A Marques, Miguel
%A Duarte, Rodrigo
%A Putyato, Artur
%A Folques, Diogo
%A Valente, Tiago
%Y Morger, Felix
%Y Ilinykh, Nikolai
%Y Scalvini, Barbara
%Y Dobnik, Simon
%Y Dannélls, Dana
%S Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on the Role of Resources in the Age of Large Language Models (RESOURCEFUL 2026)
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
%F branco-etal-2026-progressing
%X Although the cultural (mis)alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has attracted increasing attention - often framed in terms of cultural bias - until recently there has been limited work on the design and development of datasets for cultural assessment. Here, we review existing approaches to such datasets and identify their main limitations. To address these issues, we propose design guidelines for annotators and report on the construction of a dataset built according to these principles. We further present a series of contrastive experiments conducted with this dataset. The results demonstrate that our design yields test sets with greater discriminative power, effectively distinguishing between models specialized for a given culture and those that are not, ceteris paribus.
%R 10.63317/37qvfzetoj3r
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.resourceful-4.13/
%U https://doi.org/10.63317/37qvfzetoj3r
%P 131-141
Markdown (Informal)
[Progressing beyond Art Masterpieces or Touristic Clichés: how to assess your LLMs for cultural alignment?](https://aclanthology.org/2026.resourceful-4.13/) (Branco et al., RESOURCEFUL 2026)
ACL
- António Branco, João Ricardo Silva, Nuno Marques, Luis M. S. Gomes, Ricardo Campos, Raquel Sequeira, Sara Nerea, Rodrigo Silva, Miguel Marques, Rodrigo Duarte, Artur Putyato, Diogo Folques, and Tiago Valente. 2026. Progressing beyond Art Masterpieces or Touristic Clichés: how to assess your LLMs for cultural alignment?. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on the Role of Resources in the Age of Large Language Models (RESOURCEFUL 2026), pages 131–141, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).