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Mind the Language Gap: Assessing LLM Safety in Italian

2026 · International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation · pp. 4647-4657 · 0 citations · 31 references
Computer Science

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This paper presents a methodology for building safety evaluation datasets that comprehensively cover the full spectrum of sensitive topics relevant to LLM safety, and releases a public repository containing the list of categorized Italian Wikipedia pages, the automatically generated prompts, and the standard prompt template used for safety testing.

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