📄 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.
See you this week in Rabat 🕌! #EACL2026
#UKPLab #CulturalNLP #ResponsibleAI #NLProc #NLP4MentalHealth #NLPsych #NLP #MentalHealth
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.
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)
And say hi to us if you are also in Rabat! #EACL2026
#NLProc #UKPLab #NLP #LLMs #AI
#MultiDocumentReasoning #ZeroShotLearning #Evaluation #OpenScience #ComputerScience
Our take on de-anonymization with LLMs: It's all flawed. But doing it right might be actually impossible. Counter-opinions?
Read here https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08207 (accepted to Computational Linguistics journal) and discuss with us at ACL
#nlproc #privacy
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.
See you this #EACL2026 in Rabat 🕌!
#UKPLab #NLP #NLProc #AI #PeerReview #AIforScience #ScientificPublishing #NoveltyDetection #Evaluation #OpenScience
👥 Justus-Jonas Erker (UKP Lab/Technische Universität Darmstadt), Nils Reimers (Cohere), Iryna Gurevych (UKP Lab/Technische Universität Darmstadt)
See you at Hashtag#EACL2026 in Rabat 🕌!
#UKPLab #NLP #NLProc #InformationRetrieval #DenseRetrieval #MultiHop #FactChecking #QuestionAnswering #RAG
New article on the evaluation of task-oriented chatbots: https://nejlt.ep.liu.se/article/view/5940
#NLProc #AI
Evaluating Task-oriented Dialogue Systems: A Systematic Review of Measures, Constructs and their Operationalisations
| Northern European Journal of Language Technology
Submission deadline extension: until March 19.
Final Call for Papers: PrivateNLP workshop co-located with ACL 2026
See https://sites.google.com/view/privatenlp2026 for OpenReview submission link and details
#nlproc #acl2026nlp #privacy
PrivateNLP@ACL 2026
Overview
Privacy-preserving data analysis has become essential in the age of Large Language Models (LLMs) where access to vast amounts of data can provide gains over tuned algorithms. A large proportion of user-contributed data comes from natural language e.g., text transcriptions from voice
If anybody wants to be my direct colleague: we have an open vacancy for a full-stack research software engineer in our "Team Text" at the KNAW Humanities Cluster (Amsterdam): https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterdam-Full-Stack-Research-Software-Engineer-HuC-Humanities-Cluster/1344086855/
Great for people who have an affinity with text, language, annotations, science, the humanities and open-source technology! Aside from front-end-skills, #python and #rust skills are much appreciated, as are generic linux and devops skills.
#rse #researchsoftware #nlproc #knaw #fedihire
Full Stack Research Software Engineer - HuC Humanities Cluster
Full Stack Research Software Engineer - HuC Humanities Cluster
The team behind the project are Prof. Iryna Gurevych, Dr. Thomas Arnold, and Dennis Zyska at Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab, as well as Prof. Florian Müller (Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, TU Darmstadt). It has been partially supported by hessian.AI
#UKPLab #TUDarmstadt #NLP #NLProc #AIinEducation #AcademicWriting #Feedback #HigherEducation #LLMentor #CSDeptDarmstadt #hessianAI
UKP Lab
Ivan Habernal
Emiel van Miltenburg
Maarten van Gompel (proycon)