NormSAGE: Multi-Lingual Multi-Cultural Norm Discovery from Conversations On-the-Fly

Abstract

Norm discovery is important for understanding and reasoning about the acceptable behaviors and potential violations in human communication and interactions.

Culturally Aware Natural Language Inference

“…Modeling cultural factors in language has received increasing attention in the NLP community (Hovy and Yang, 2021;Hershcovich et al, 2022). Culture serves as common ground in communication, motivating the line of work to build cultural knowledge bases and probe cultural knowledge in LLMs, which includes commonsense knowledge (Yin et al, 2022;Nguyen et al, 2023;Keleg and Magdy, 2023;Palta and Rudinger, 2023), norms (Fung et al, 2022;CH-Wang et al, 2023), values (Johnson et al, 2022Cao et al, 2023;Arora et al, 2023;Ramezani and Xu, 2023), and knowledge cross modalities (Liu et al, 2021).…”

“…Our work is also related to reasoning about social norms. Social norm reasoning tasks involve social judgement (Forbes et al, 2020;Shen et al, 2022;Fung et al, 2022;, intents and consequences (Emelin et al, 2021;Rashkin et al, 2018), and reference resolution (Abrams and Scheutz, 2022). A recent line of work has focused on the situational and defeasible nature of social norm reasoning (Rudinger et al, 2020;Pyatkin et al, 2023).…”

“…A lack of cultural awareness can result in models with poor accuracy and robustness (Liu et al, 2021), social biases and stereotypes (van Miltenburg, 2016;Rudinger et al, 2017;Arora et al, 2023), and discrimination against annotators ( Miceli and Posada, 2022). To incorporate cultural factors in NLP systems, recent work has built knowledge bases of cultural symbols, practices (Yin et al, 2022;Nguyen et al, 2023;Fung et al, 2022;CH-Wang et al, 2023), andvalues (Johnson et al, 2022;Cao et al, 2023;Arora et al, 2023), along with methods to probe or elicit such knowledge from LLMs.…”