用人类语言文化视角解析大模型对话,让AI更懂不同人群的表达方式。
Toward Cultural Interpretability: A Linguistic Anthropological Framework for Describing and Evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs)
- 融合语言人类学与机器学习,构建文化可解释性新框架
- 通过人机对话分析,揭示大模型如何内化语言与文化关系
- 适合关注AI伦理、跨文化交互与模型公平性的研究者
本文提出将语言人类学与机器学习相结合的新范式,聚焦语言背后的文化根基与语言技术的社会责任。通过分析用户与大语言模型驱动聊天机器人之间的对话,论证了文化可解释性(CI)的理论可行性。CI关注人机交互中语言与文化动态关系如何共同建构意义,使情境敏感、开放式的对话成为可能。通过考察大模型内部对语言与文化关系的表征,CI既能深化语言人类学对语言文化模式的理解,也能帮助开发者与界面设计者提升模型与多元文化使用者的价值对齐。文章提出三个核心研究维度:相对性、变异性与指示性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This article proposes a new integration of linguistic anthropology and machine learning (ML) around convergent interests in both the underpinnings of language and making language technologies more socially responsible. While linguistic anthropology focuses on interpreting the cultural basis for human language use, the ML field of interpretability is concerned with uncovering the patterns that Large Language Models (LLMs) learn from human verbal behavior. Through the analysis of a conversation between a human user and an LLM-powered chatbot, we demonstrate the theoretical feasibility of a new, conjoint field of inquiry, cultural interpretability (CI). By focusing attention on the communicative competence involved in the way human users and AI chatbots co-produce meaning in the articulatory interface of human-computer interaction, CI emphasizes how the dynamic relationship between language and culture makes contextually sensitive, open-ended conversation possible. We suggest that, by examining how LLMs internally "represent" relationships between language and culture, CI can: (1) provide insight into long-standing linguistic anthropological questions about the patterning of those relationships; and (2) aid model developers and interface designers in improving value alignment between language models and stylistically diverse speakers and culturally diverse speech communities. Our discussion proposes three critical research axes: relativity, variation, and indexicality.
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