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📄 Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07902

💻 Code and data: https://github.com/UKPLab/eacl2026-culturecare

🔗 Project: https://github.com/UKPLab/arxiv2025-culturecare

Follow the authors Chen Cecilia Liu, Hiba Arnaout, Nils Kovacic, and Iryna Gurevych from the UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt and hessian.ai, as well as Dana Atzil-Slonim from the Psychology Department, Bar-Ilan University.

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Tailored Emotional LLM-Supporter: Enhancing Cultural Sensitivity

Large language models (LLMs) show promise in offering emotional support and generating empathetic responses for individuals in distress, but their ability to deliver culturally sensitive support remains underexplored due to a lack of resources. In this work, we introduce CultureCare, the first dataset designed for this task, spanning four cultures and including 1729 distress messages, 1523 cultural signals, and 1041 support strategies with fine-grained emotional and cultural annotations. Leveraging CultureCare, we (i) develop and test four adaptation strategies for guiding three state-of-the-art LLMs toward culturally sensitive responses; (ii) conduct comprehensive evaluations using LLM-as-a-Judge, in-culture human annotators, and clinical psychologists; (iii) show that adapted LLMs outperform anonymous online peer responses, and that simple cultural role-play is insufficient for cultural sensitivity; and (iv) explore the application of LLMs in clinical training, where experts highlight their potential in fostering cultural competence in novice therapists.

arXiv.org

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And follow the authors Sukannya Purkayastha, Nils Dycke, and Iryna Gurevych from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Technische Universität Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, as well as Anne Lauscher from the Data Science Group, University of Hamburg.

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UKP Lab Mar 13

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UKP Lab Mar 12

Follow the authors: Serwar Basch (UKP Lab/hessian.AI/Technische Universität Darmstadt), Ilia Kuznetsov (UKP Lab/hessian.AI/Technische Universität Darmstadt), Tom Hope (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Ai2), and Iryna Gurevych (UKP Lab/hessian.AI/Technische Universität Darmstadt)

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UKP Lab Mar 11

Follow the authors Osama Mohammed Afzal and Iryna Gurevych from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, as well as Preslav Nakov from MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) and Tom Hope from Ai2.

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UKP Lab Jan 7

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UKP Lab Jan 7

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🌍 We are pleased to share that researchers from the UKP Lab and their collaborators will present 𝟵 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 at the #EACL2026, one of the leading international conferences in #NLP and #CL, bringing together research from across Europe and beyond.