Schützen: Evaluating LLM Safety in Bulgarian and German Contexts

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11316v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:01:19 GMT
• Title: Schützen: Evaluating LLM Safety in Bulgarian and German Contexts
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces Schtzen: a German--Bulgarian safety dataset designed to assess model answerability under risk.<n> Experiments with multilingual and language-specific LLMs reveal pronounced cross-language differences in safety behavior.
• Score: 53.865251738592605
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed across professional domains, bringing hard-to-predict risks, including the generation of harmful or disrespectful content. Although substantial progress has been made in developing safety evaluation datasets, existing resources remain overwhelmingly English- and Chinese-centric. This limitation is particularly pronounced when evaluating languages that operate within shared sociocultural, legal, and ethical contexts. To address this gap, we introduce Schützen: a German--Bulgarian safety dataset designed to assess model answerability under risk, covering both a low-resource language (Bulgarian) and a high-resource language (German). Experiments with multilingual and language-specific LLMs reveal pronounced cross-language differences in safety behavior, highlighting the necessity of tailored, region-specific evaluation resources to support the responsible deployment of LLMs in Germany and Bulgaria. Datasets and code are available at https://github.com/xnlp-lab/Schutzen. Warning: this paper contains examples that may be offensive, harmful, or biased.

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