Ajwad Abrar

Who Receives Respect? A Counterfactual Benchmark for Honorific Allocation Bias in Bengali

Bengali has no grammatical gender, but honorificity is obligatory: every third-person reference must choose ordinary or respectful register. English has no such signal, so the system must choose a level of deference that the source never specified. We use this property to measure how large language models (LLMs) alloca...