Prof. Emmanuele CHERSONI, Assistant Professor of PolyU’s Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies (CBS), and a team of international researchers, including our alumnus Dr. Enrico SANTUS, have been honoured with the Best Theme Paper Award at 2025 Annual Conference of the NAACL (Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), a leading event in natural language processing and computational linguistics.
This outstanding achievement stems from their collaborative paper, “WORLDCUISINES: A Massive-Scale Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Visual Question Answering on Global Cuisines.”
The WORLDCUISINES Project has developed a large-scale dataset comprising images and multilingual Q&A pairs to evaluate how large language models (LLMs) recognise and describe culinary dishes from 30 different languages and cultures. Prof. Chersoni and Dr. Santus contributed their expertise to the Italian cuisine section of the dataset.
Publication
Winata, G, Hudi, F, Irawan, PA, Anugraha, D, Putri, RA, Wang, Y, Nohejl, A, Prathama, U, Ousidhoum, N, Amriani, A, Rzayev, A, Das, A, Pramodya, A, Adila, A, Willie, B, Mawalim, CO, Cheng, CL, Abolade, D, Chersoni, E, Santus, E, Ikhwantri, F, Kuwanto, G, Zhao, H, Wibowo, HA, Lovenia, H, Cruz, JCB, Putra, JVG, Myung, J, Susanto, L, Machin, MAR, Zhukova, M, Anugraha, M, Adilazuarda, MF, Santosa, N, Limkonchotiwat, P, Dabre, R, Audino, RA, Cahyawijaya, S, Zhang, S-X, Salim, SY, Zhou, Y, Gui, Y, Adelani, DI, Lee, E-SA, Okada, S, Purwarianti, A, Aji, AF, Watanabe, T, Wijaya, DT, Oh, A & Ngo, C-W 2025, WORLDCUISINES: A Massive-Scale Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Visual Question Answering on Global Cuisines. in Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025). Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 29/04/25. <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.12705>
