@inproceedings{shiono-etal-2025-evaluating,
    title = "Evaluating Model Alignment with Human Perception: A Study on Shitsukan in {LLM}s and {LVLM}s",
    author = "Shiono, Daiki  and
      Brassard, Ana  and
      Ishizuki, Yukiko  and
      Suzuki, Jun",
    editor = "Rambow, Owen  and
      Wanner, Leo  and
      Apidianaki, Marianna  and
      Al-Khalifa, Hend  and
      Eugenio, Barbara Di  and
      Schockaert, Steven",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = jan,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.coling-main.757/",
    pages = "11428--11444",
    abstract = "We evaluate the alignment of large language models (LLMs) and large vision-language models (LVLMs) with human perception, focusing on the Japanese concept of *shitsukan*, which reflects the sensory experience of perceiving objects. We created a dataset of *shitsukan* terms elicited from individuals in response to object images. With it, we designed benchmark tasks for three dimensions of understanding *shitsukan*: (1) accurate perception in object images, (2) commonsense knowledge of typical *shitsukan* terms for objects, and (3) distinction of valid *shitsukan* terms. Models demonstrated mixed accuracy across benchmark tasks, with limited overlap between model- and human-generated terms. However, manual evaluations revealed that the model-generated terms were still natural to humans. This work identifies gaps in culture-specific understanding and contributes to aligning models with human sensory perception. We publicly release the dataset to encourage further research in this area."
}