The problem: Most QA benchmarks focus on globally known facts. But real users ask about local geography, culture, and history.

We collected questions from native speakers in Czechia 🇨🇿, Slovakia 🇸🇰, and Ukraine 🇺🇦 about facts locals know but outsiders don't.

This week I am at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna 🎡🇦🇹. Find me 🕵️ or message 💌 me if you want to chat about multilinguality or tokenization. Stop 🛑 by our poster on gender bias in text-to-image generation on Monday aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

Attending #NAACL2025 virtually. Since 2022, I've been training a classifier on papers I read to tackle the arXiv madness. Ran it on the NAACL proceedings for my personalized watch list. 🤓📺 However, it's far from perfect: Multilingual cultural awareness is great, but where is tokenization? 🤷

Happy holidays! 🎄🎅🤩🎁