3 papers
cs.CL2026
Cultivar: A Contrastive and Locale-Oriented Translation Benchmark for Investigating Contamination and Localisation Robustness
Pinzhen Chen, Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Xiaoya Xu +20
Multilingual translation benchmarks are typically sourced in English and translated into other languages, treating language pairs as the unit of evaluation---a design that is prone…
cs.CL2026
Omnilingual SONAR: Cross-Lingual and Cross-Modal Sentence Embeddings Bridging Massively Multilingual Text and Speech
Omnilingual SONAR Team, João Maria Janeiro, Pere-LluÃs Huguet Cabot +17
Cross-lingual sentence encoders typically cover only a few hundred languages and often trade downstream quality for stronger alignment, limiting their adoption. We introduce OmniSO…
cs.CL2025
XL-Suite: Cross-Lingual Synthetic Training and Evaluation Data for Open-Ended Generation
Vivek Iyer, Pinzhen Chen, Ricardo Rei +1
Cross-lingual open-ended generation - responding in a language different from that of the query - is an important yet understudied problem. This work proposes XL-Instruct, a novel…