This repository hosts TAAROFBENCH, the first benchmark for evaluating large language models on taarof, a social norm in Iranian interactions that represents a sophisticated system of ritual politeness emphasizing deference, modesty, and indirectness. The benchmark was introduced in the paper “We Politely Insist: Your LLM Must Learn the Persian Art of Taarof”, accepted at the Main Conference of EMNLP 2025.… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/Nikta/TAAROFBENCH.
