Discourse and Pragmatics

LLMs Infer Cultural Context but Fail to Apply It When Responding

We introduce Cultural and Pragmatic Response Inference (CAPRI), a dataset showing that LLMs infer users’ cultural backgrounds but often fail to adapt their responses accordingly.

Yisong Miao, Jian Zhu, Vered Shwartz

LLMs Infer Cultural Context but Fail to Apply It When Responding