Culture-Sensitive Assessment and Adjustment of Large Language Models – Adaptation to the Nordic-Baltic Societies (CAALLM)

The objective of the project is to facilitate the adaption of large language models towards a more responsible coverage and functionality that encompass the linguistic, cultural, and societal diversity in the Nordic and Baltic regions.

The project brings together language institutions and NLP research groups from the Nordic-Baltic region and will compile a number of open-source linguistic and cultural multi-parallel datasets for Danish, Swedish, Bokmål, Nynorsk, Faroese, and Latvian, which will systematically draw on and make explicit the central aspects of the linguistic and cultural diversity of our regions. Based on these data, we hope to advance state-of-the-art methods for explaining, assessing, and aligning LLMs across languages and cultures, with particular focus on the linguistic idiosyncrasy and cultural heritage of our regions.