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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.

NAACL 2025

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

slang detection

lgbtq

bias

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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

We study language ideologies in text produced by LLMs through a case study on English gendered language reform (related to role nouns like congressperson/-woman/-man, and singular they). First, we find political bias: when asked to use language that is "correct" or "natural", LLMs use language most similarly to when asked to align with conservative (vs. progressive) values. This shows how LLMs' metalinguistic preferences can implicitly communicate the language ideologies of a particular political group, even in seemingly non-political contexts. Second, we find LLMs exhibit internal inconsistency: LLMs use gender-neutral variants more often when more explicit metalinguistic context is provided. This shows how the language ideologies expressed in text produced by LLMs can vary, which may be unexpected to users. We discuss the broader implications of these findings for value alignment.

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.

Tuning Into Bias: A Computational Study of Gender Bias in Song Lyrics

Relation extraction (RE) in fiction presents unique NLP challenges due to implicit, narrative-driven relationships. Unlike factual texts, fiction weaves complex connections, yet existing RE datasets focus on non-fiction. To address this, we introduce Artificial Relationships in Fiction (ARF), a synthetically annotated dataset for literary RE. Built from diverse Project Gutenberg fiction, ARF considers author demographics, publication periods, and themes. We curated an ontology for fiction-specific entities and relations, and using GPT-4o, generated artificial relationships to capture narrative complexity. Our analysis demonstrates its value for finetuning RE models and advancing computational literary studies. By bridging a critical RE gap, ARF enables deeper exploration of fictional relationships, enriching NLP research at the intersection of storytelling and AI-driven literary analysis.

Artificial Relationships in Fiction: A Dataset for Advancing NLP in Literary Domains

Recent studies have shown that few-shot learning enables large language models (LLMs) to generate training data for supervised models at a low cost. However, for complex tasks, the quality of LLM-generated data often falls short compared to human-labeled data. This presents a critical challenge: how should one balance the trade-off between the higher quality but more expensive human-annotated data and the lower quality yet significantly cheaper LLM-generated data? In this paper, we tackle this question for a demanding task: conversational semantic frame analysis (SFA). To address this, we propose a novel method for synthesizing training data tailored to this complex task. Through experiments conducted across a wide range of budget levels, we find that smaller budgets favor a higher reliance on LLM-generated data to achieve optimal cost-efficiency.

Optimizing Cost-Efficiency with LLM-Generated Training Data for Conversational Semantic Frame Analysis

Developing specialised language models for low-resource domains typically involves a trade-off between two specialisation strategies: adapting a general-purpose model through continued pretraining or retraining a model from scratch. While adapting preserves the model's linguistic knowledge, retraining benefits from the flexibility of an in-domain tokeniser -- a potentially significant advantage when handling rare languages. This study investigates the impact of tokenisation, specialisation strategy, and pretraining data availability using classical scholarship -- a multilingual, code-switching and highly domain-specific field -- as a case study. Through extensive experiments, we assess whether domain-specific tokenisation improves model performance, whether character-based models provide a viable alternative to subword-based models, and which specialisation strategy is optimal given the constraints of limited pretraining data. Contrary to prior findings, our results show that in-domain tokenisation does not necessarily enhance performance. Most notably, adaptation consistently outperforms retraining, even with limited data, confirming its efficiency as the preferred strategy for resource-constrained domains. These insights provide valuable guidelines for developing specialised models in fields with limited textual resources.

Don't stop pretraining! Efficiently building specialised language models in resource-constrained settings.

The growing volume of digitized historical texts requires effective semantic search using text embeddings. However, pre-trained multilingual models face challenges with historical content due to OCR noise and outdated spellings. This study examines multilingual embeddings for cross-lingual semantic search in historical Luxembourgish (LB), a low-resource language. We collect historical Luxembourgish news articles from various periods and use GPT-4o for sentence segmentation and translation, generating 20,000 parallel training sentences per language pair. Additionally, we create a semantic search (Historical LB Bitext Mining) evaluation set and find that existing models perform poorly on cross-lingual search for historical Luxembourgish. Using our historical and additional modern parallel training data, we adapt several multilingual embedding models through contrastive learning or knowledge distillation and increase accuracy significantly for all models. We release our adapted models and historical Luxembourgish-German/French/English bitexts to support further research.

Adapting Multilingual Embedding Models to Historical Luxembourgish

Automatic poetry generation is an immensely complex task, even for the most advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) that requires a profound understanding of intelligence, world and linguistic knowledge, and a touch of creativity.
This paper investigates the use of LLMs in generating Russian syllabo-tonic poetry of various genres and styles. The study explores a character-level tokenization architectures and demonstrates how a language model can be pretrained and finetuned to generate poetry requiring knowledge of a language's phonetics. Additionally, the paper assesses the quality of the generated poetry and the effectiveness of the approach in producing different genres and styles. The study's main contribution is the introduction of two end-to-end architectures for syllabo-tonic Russian poetry: pretrained models, a comparative analysis of the approaches, and poetry evaluation metrics.

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