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In this work in progress, we explore the use of large language models (LLMs) to develop linguistic tools that benefit Guarani-Jopara, a variant of the indigenous Guarani language influenced by Spanish and widely spoken in Paraguay as well as in Guarani-speaking communities in other regions. Despite its cultural and social importance, Guarani-Jopara has been underrepresented in modern natural language processing (NLP) applications due to the scarcity of digital resources available in this language. To mitigate this gap, we employed the {Google Translate} API to translate the Alpaca dataset into Guarani-Jopara, thereby generating a synthetic corpus. Training was carried out using tools such as {HuggingFace&#39;s AutoTrain} and {UnsloothAI&#39;s unsloth}, allowing for fine-tuning on several pre-trained models. The preliminary results indicate that the trained model can capture some of the characteristics of Guarani-Jopara, suggesting a considerable margin for improvement. These initial experiments represent another step toward the inclusion of Guarani-Jopara in NLP applications, with future efforts directed to expanding the corpus and optimizing the model for specific tasks such as machine translation or sentiment analysis.

NAACL 2025

Building a Large Language Model for Guarani-Jopara? Methodology, Challenges, and Preliminary Results

guarani-jopará language

low-resources language

large language model

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In this work in progress, we explore the use of large language models (LLMs) to develop linguistic tools that benefit Guarani-Jopara, a variant of the indigenous Guarani language influenced by Spanish and widely spoken in Paraguay as well as in Guarani-speaking communities in other regions. Despite its cultural and social importance, Guarani-Jopara has been underrepresented in modern natural language processing (NLP) applications due to the scarcity of digital resources available in this language. To mitigate this gap, we employed the {Google Translate} API to translate the Alpaca dataset into Guarani-Jopara, thereby generating a synthetic corpus. Training was carried out using tools such as {HuggingFace's AutoTrain} and {UnsloothAI's unsloth}, allowing for fine-tuning on several pre-trained models. The preliminary results indicate that the trained model can capture some of the characteristics of Guarani-Jopara, suggesting a considerable margin for improvement. These initial experiments represent another step toward the inclusion of Guarani-Jopara in NLP applications, with future efforts directed to expanding the corpus and optimizing the model for specific tasks such as machine translation or sentiment analysis.

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Machine translation is a tool that can help teachers, learners, and users of low-resourced languages. However, there are significant challenges in developing these tools, such as the lack of large-scale parallel corpora and complex morphology. We propose a novel hybrid system that combines LLM and rule-based methods in two distinct stages to translate inflected Ojibwe verbs into English. We use an LLM to automatically annotate dictionary data to build translation templates. Then, our rule-based module performs translation using inflection and slot-filling processes built on top of an FST-based analyzer. We test the system with a set of automated tests. Thanks to the ahead-of-time nature of the template-building process and the light-weight rule-based translation module, the end-to-end translation process has an average translation speed of 70 milliseconds per word. The approach has the potential to be extended to other low-resource Indigenous languages with dictionary data.

A hybrid Approach to low-resource machine translation for Ojibwe verbs

Quechua is a low-resource language spoken by more than 7 million people in South America. It is a spoken language without writing. Quechua's writing does not follow any grammatical or lexical rules; its current writing is based on how it is uttered and how the sound is written. Quechua is a family of languages with similarities among the seven variants. The lack of a parallel dataset has reduced the opportunities for developing machine translation. We investigated whether increasing the current Quechua Parallel dataset with synthetic sentences and using a pre-trained large language model improves the performance of a Quechua machine translation. A Large language model has been used to generate synthetic sentences to extend the current parallel dataset. We use the mt5 model to fine-tune it to develop a machine translation for Quechua to Spanish and vice versa. Our survey identified the gaps in the state of the art of Quechua machine translation, and our BLEU/Chrf++ results show an improvement over the state of the art.

UCSP Submission to the AmericasNLP 2025 Shared Task

Language is a cornerstone of cultural identity, yet globalization and the dominance of major languages have placed nearly 3,000 languages at risk of extinction. Existing AI-driven translation models prioritize efficiency but often fail to capture cultural nuances, idiomatic expressions, and historical significance, leading to translations that marginalize linguistic diversity. To address these challenges, we propose a multi-agent AI framework designed for culturally adaptive translation in underserved language communities. Our approach leverages specialized agents for translation, interpretation, content synthesis, and bias evaluation, ensuring that linguistic accuracy and cultural relevance are preserved. Using CrewAI and LangChain, our system enhances contextual fidelity while mitigating biases through external validation. Comparative analysis shows that our framework outperforms GPT-4o, producing contextually rich and culturally embedded translations—a critical advancement for Indigenous, regional, and low-resource languages. This research underscores the potential of multi-agent AI in fostering equitable, sustainable, and culturally sensitive NLP technologies, aligning with the AI Governance, Cultural NLP, and Sustainable NLP pillars of Language Models for Underserved Communities. Our full experimental codebase is publicly avail able at: github.com/ciol-researchlab/Context-Aware_Translation_MAS.

Preserving Cultural Identity with Context-Aware Translation Through Multi-Agent AI Systems

This study investigates zero-shot and few-shot cross-lingual transfer effects in Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging and Named Entity Recognition (NER) for Hamshentsnag, an endangered Western Armenian dialect. We examine how different source languages, Western Armenian (contact cognate), Eastern Armenian (ancestral cognate), Turkish (substrate or contact-induced), and English (non-cognate), affect the task performance using multilingual BERT and BERTurk. Results show that cognate varieties improved POS tagging by 8% F1, while the substrate source enhanced NER by 15% F1. BERTurk outperformed mBERT on NER but not on POS. We attribute this to task-specific advantages of different source languages. We also used script conversion and phonetic alignment with the target for non-Latin scripts, which alleviated transfer.

Cognate and Contact-Induced Transfer Learning for Hamshentsnag: A Low-Resource and Endangered Language

Language models have integrated themselves into many aspects of digital life, shaping everything from social media to translation. This paper investigates how large language models (LLMs) respond to LGBTQ+ slang and heteronormative language. Through two experiments, the study assesses the emotional content and the impact of queer slang on responses from models including GPT-3.5, GPT-4o, Llama2, Llama3, Gemma and Mistral. The findings reveal that heteronormative prompts can trigger safety mechanisms, leading to neutral or corrective responses, while LGBTQ+ slang elicits more negative emotions. These insights punctuate the need to provide equitable outcomes for minority slangs and argots, in addition to eliminating explicit bigotry from language models.

Guardrails, not Guidance: Understanding Responses to LGBTQ+ Language in Large Language Models

Given the widespread use of LLM-powered conversational agents such as ChatGPT, analyzing the ways people interact with them could provide valuable insights into human behavior. Prior work has shown that sometimes the use cases of these agents are sexual. For example, they are used to obtain sexual information and advice, as romantic or sexual companions, and to generate erotica and pornography. In this paper, we hone in on this and perform an analysis of dehumanizing tendencies toward LGBTQ+ individuals by human users in their sexual interactions with ChatGPT. Through a series of experiments that model various concept vectors associated with distinct shades of dehumanization, we find that humans prompt ChatGPT to generate LGBTQ+-related content in nuanced ways. Some of our findings signal the reproduction of harmful stereotypes. However, others indicate that not all prompting practices are inherently negative.

Dehumanization of LGBTQ+ Groups in Sexual Interactions with ChatGPT

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Do language models practice what they preach? Examining language ideologies about gendered language reform encoded in LLMs

This study presents BiasAdapt, a novel data augmentation strategy designed to enhance the robustness of automatic media bias detection models. Leveraging the BABE dataset, BiasAdapt uses a generative language model to identify bias-indicative keywords and replace them with alternatives from opposing categories, thus creating adversarial examples that preserve the original bias labels. The contributions of this work are twofold: it proposes a scalable method for augmenting bias datasets with adversarial examples while preserving labels, and it publicly releases an augmented adversarial media bias dataset.
Training on BiasAdapt reduces the reliance on spurious cues in four of the six evaluated media bias categories.

LLM-based Adversarial Dataset Augmentation for Automatic Media Bias Detection

Violence descriptions in literature offer valuable insights for a wide range of research in the humanities. For historians, depictions of violence are of special interest for analyzing the societal dynamics surrounding large wars and individual conflicts of influential people. Harvesting data for violence research manually is laborious and time-consuming. This study is the first one to evaluate the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) in identifying violence in ancient texts and categorizing it across multiple dimensions. Our experiments identify LLMs as a valuable tool to scale up the accurate analysis of historical texts and show the effect of fine-tuning and data augmentation, yielding an F1-score of up to 0.93 for violence detection and 0.86 for fine-grained violence categorization.

Automating Violence Detection and Categorization from Ancient Texts

The application of text mining methods is becoming increasingly prevalent, particularly within Humanities and Computational Social Sciences, as well as in a broader range of disciplines. This paper presents an analysis of gender bias in English song lyrics using topic modeling and bias measurement techniques. Leveraging BERTopic, we cluster a dataset of 537,553 English songs into distinct topics and analyze their temporal evolution. Our results reveal a significant thematic shift in song lyrics over time, transitioning from romantic themes to a heightened focus on the sexualization of women. Additionally, we observe a substantial prevalence of profanity and misogynistic content across various topics, with a particularly high concentration in the largest thematic cluster. To further analyse gender bias across topics and genres in a quantitative way, we employ the Single Category Word Embedding Association Test (SC-WEAT) to calculate bias scores for word embeddings trained on the most prominent topics as well as individual genres. The results indicate a consistent male bias in words associated with intelligence and strength, while appearance and weakness words show a female bias. Further analysis highlights variations in these biases across topics, illustrating the interplay between thematic content and gender stereotypes in song lyrics.

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