--- title: "Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language" description: "Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models 2026 — accepted papers: 19 papers in the Elamur Research library (San…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/2026/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/2026/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/) / 2026 # Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models 2026 — accepted papers Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models, held in San Diego, United States, July 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 31 papers of it; our library holds 19 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. 📍 San Diego, [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) · 🗓 July 2026 [**31** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**19** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/2026/#works) · [**1** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/2026/#works) ## All accepted papers (31) The most cited first; 19 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[Benchmarking Byte-Pair Encoding Tokenizers on Different Languages with Bits per Byte ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.mellm-1.27/)**Soham Chowdhury, Warren Woolf 2. **[Beyond Accuracy: A Structured Error Analysis of Multilingual LLMs on Marathi Script Variation and Syntax](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/patil-2026-beyond-accuracy-structured-error-analysis/)**Tejas Patil, Barnali Chetia*our summary* 3. **[Causal Localization of the English Pivot in LLaVA: Mechanistic VLM Analysis and Training-Free Multilingual Steering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/raihan-2026-causal-localization-english-pivot-llava/)**Abrar Zahin Raihan, Aurchi Chowdhury*our summary* 4. **[Cross-Lingual Bias in Large Language Models: A Comparative Analysis of English and Swahili](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-cross-lingual-bias-large-language/)**Ruolei Zhang, Teddy Njuguna, Yue Feng*our summary* 5. **[Cross-Lingual Sentiment Misalignment: Auditing Multilingual Language Models for Inversion Risk, Dialectal Representation, and Affective Stability ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.mellm-1.12/)**Nusrat Jahan Lia, Shubhashis Roy Dipta 6. **[DIMAS-OMOP: A Deliberative Intelligence-Based Multi-Agent System for Chinese Medical Text Standardization toward OMOP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lv-2026-dimas-omop-deliberative-intelligence-based/)**Hanlin Lv, Xiao Wang, Kesong Wu et al.*our summary* 7. **[Do Thoughts Depth Affect Multilingual Reasoning?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-do-thoughts-depth-affect-multilingual/)**Linjian Yang, Xinyan Wang, Kunpeng Liu*our summary* 8. **[Evaluating Multilingual Tokenization under Worst-N Parity-Aware BPE ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.mellm-1.21/)**Vani Kanjirangat, David Kletz, Tanja Samardzic et al. 9. **[Evidence-Augmented Generation Reasoning for Extremely Low-Resource Language Decipherment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2026-evidence-augmented-generation-reasoning-extremely/)**Xiaoyu Zhu, Long Yuan, Rui Qi et al.*our summary* 10. **[GAIA-v2-LILT: Multilingual Adaptation of Agent Benchmark beyond Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.mellm-1.13/)**Yunsu Kim, Kaden Uhlig, Joern Wuebker 11. **[Group-Merger: A LoRA-based Framework for Multilingual Continual Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yi-2026-group-merger-lora-based-framework/)**Weijian yi, Hongliang Li, Jinan Xu*our summary* 12. **[Improving Korean-English Cross-Lingual Retrieval: A Data-Centric Study of Language Composition and Model Merging ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.mellm-1.3/)**Youngjoon Jang, Junyoung Son, Taemin Lee et al. 13. **[Kyrgyz Text Normalization: A Comparative Study of Neural and Rule-Based Approaches](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uvalieva-2026-kyrgyz-text-normalization-comparative-study/)**Zarina Uvalieva, Bektemir Kumarbai Uulu, Adilet Metinov et al.*our summary* 14. **[Lost in Dialect: The Annotation Gap in Multilingual LLM Safety ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.mellm-1.1/)**Wajdi Zaghouani 15. **[MFMDQwen: Multilingual Financial Misinformation Detection Based on Large Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-mfmdqwen-multilingual-financial-misinformation-detection/)**Zhiwei Liu, Yuyan Wang, Yuechen Jiang et al.*our summary* 16. **[MLingualFC: Evaluating Jailbreak Vulnerabilities in Multilingual Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/makwana-2026-mlingualfc-evaluating-jailbreak-vulnerabilities-multilingual/)**Rishabh Makwana, Mamta Mamta, Deeksha Varshney et al.*our summary* 17. **[MultiHaluDet: Multilingual Hallucination Detection via LLM Hidden State Probing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.mellm-1.6/)**Riasad Alvi, Nurul Labib Sayeedi, Md. Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi 18. **[Multilingual Chain-of-Thought Compression via Cross-Lingual Distillation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wan-2026-multilingual-chain-thought-compression-cross/)**Jiarui Wan, Songming Zhang, Yufeng Chen*our summary* 19. **[Multilingual Disparities in LLM-Based Safety Judgments: Evidence from Brand Safety Applications](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-multilingual-disparities-llm-based-safety/)**Songjiang Liu, Riley Grossman, Mike Smith et al.*our summary* 20. **[On the Limits of Model Merging for Multilinguality in Pre-Training ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.mellm-1.15/)**Seth Aycock, Fedor Vitiugin, Aleksandr Umnov et al. 21. **[P3B3: A Multi-Turn Conversational Benchmark for Measuring European and Brazilian Portuguese Variety Bias in LLMs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.mellm-1.23/)**Rafael Ferreira, Inês Vieira, Inês Calvo et al. 22. **[Polyglot-Lion: Efficient Multilingual ASR for Singapore via Balanced Fine-Tuning of Qwen3-ASR ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.mellm-1.18/)**Quy-Anh Dang, Chris Ngo 23. **[Query-Synergy: Leveraging High-Resource Languages for Improving Retrieval Performance Across Multiple Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.mellm-1.4/)**Seongtae Hong, Jungseob Lee, Hyeonseok Moon et al. 24. **[SN-WER: Script-Normalized WER for Multi-Script Indic ASR Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pattnayak-2026-sn-wer-script-normalized-wer/)**Priyaranjan Pattnayak*our summary* 25. **[ShahiEmotion: A Benchmark Dataset for Punjabi Shahmukhi Emotion Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nawaz-2026-shahiemotion-benchmark-dataset-punjabi-shahmukhi/)**Usman Nawaz, Muhammad Junaid Iqbal, Tahir Alyas et al.*our summary* [See all 31 papers in Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models 2026 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/2026/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (19) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[When Retrieval Hurts: Evidence Utilization, Script Fidelity, and Knowledge Conflicts in Multilingual RAG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohan-2026-when-retrieval-hurts-evidence-utilization/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Varalekshmy M Mohan, Swathi Jayakumar, Gadha Saji Menon, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 2. **[The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from Amharic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alemneh-2026-multilingual-curse-retrieval-layer-evidence/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Yosef Worku Alemneh, Kidist Amde Mekonnen, Maarten de Rijke*2026* 3. **[MFMDQwen: Multilingual Financial Misinformation Detection Based on Large Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-mfmdqwen-multilingual-financial-misinformation-detection/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Zhiwei Liu, Yuyan Wang, Yuechen Jiang, et al.*2026* 4. **[Multilingual Disparities in LLM-Based Safety Judgments: Evidence from Brand Safety Applications](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-multilingual-disparities-llm-based-safety/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Songjiang Liu, Riley Grossman, Mike Smith, et al.*2026* 5. **[DIMAS-OMOP: A Deliberative Intelligence-Based Multi-Agent System for Chinese Medical Text Standardization toward OMOP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lv-2026-dimas-omop-deliberative-intelligence-based/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Hanlin Lv, Xiao Wang, Kesong Wu, et al.*2026* 6. **[MLingualFC: Evaluating Jailbreak Vulnerabilities in Multilingual Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/makwana-2026-mlingualfc-evaluating-jailbreak-vulnerabilities-multilingual/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Rishabh Makwana, Mamta Mamta, Deeksha Varshney, et al.*2026* 7. **[ShahiEmotion: A Benchmark Dataset for Punjabi Shahmukhi Emotion Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nawaz-2026-shahiemotion-benchmark-dataset-punjabi-shahmukhi/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Usman Nawaz, Muhammad Junaid Iqbal, Tahir Alyas, et al.*2026* 8. **[The Broken Telephone Changes Tone: Examining Nuanced Linguistic Cues in LLM Chains-of-Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nguyen-2026-broken-telephone-changes-tone-examining/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Quang Minh Nguyen, Maida Aizaz, Braahmi Padmakumar*2026* 9. **[Beyond Accuracy: A Structured Error Analysis of Multilingual LLMs on Marathi Script Variation and Syntax](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/patil-2026-beyond-accuracy-structured-error-analysis/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Tejas Patil, Barnali Chetia*2026* 10. **[SN-WER: Script-Normalized WER for Multi-Script Indic ASR Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pattnayak-2026-sn-wer-script-normalized-wer/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Priyaranjan Pattnayak*2026* 11. **[When English Isn't the Best Teacher: Source Language Effects in Cross-Lingual In-Context Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/philippy-2026-when-english-isn-t-best/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Fred Philippy, Siwen Guo, Jacques Klein, et al.*2026* 12. **[Causal Localization of the English Pivot in LLaVA: Mechanistic VLM Analysis and Training-Free Multilingual Steering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/raihan-2026-causal-localization-english-pivot-llava/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Abrar Zahin Raihan, Aurchi Chowdhury*2026* 13. **[mmPISA-bench: Do LLMs Reason Equally Well Across 43 Languages?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sapenov-2026-mmpisa-bench-do-llms-reason/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Yerzhan Sapenov, Jaromir Savelka*2026* 14. **[Kyrgyz Text Normalization: A Comparative Study of Neural and Rule-Based Approaches](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uvalieva-2026-kyrgyz-text-normalization-comparative-study/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Zarina Uvalieva, Bektemir Kumarbai Uulu, Adilet Metinov, et al.*2026* 15. **[Multilingual Chain-of-Thought Compression via Cross-Lingual Distillation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wan-2026-multilingual-chain-thought-compression-cross/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Jiarui Wan, Songming Zhang, Yufeng Chen*2026* 16. **[Do Thoughts Depth Affect Multilingual Reasoning?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-do-thoughts-depth-affect-multilingual/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Linjian Yang, Xinyan Wang, Kunpeng Liu*2026* 17. **[Group-Merger: A LoRA-based Framework for Multilingual Continual Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yi-2026-group-merger-lora-based-framework/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Weijian yi, Hongliang Li, Jinan Xu*2026* 18. **[Cross-Lingual Bias in Large Language Models: A Comparative Analysis of English and Swahili](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-cross-lingual-bias-large-language/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Ruolei Zhang, Teddy Njuguna, Yue Feng*2026* 19. **[Evidence-Augmented Generation Reasoning for Extremely Low-Resource Language Decipherment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2026-evidence-augmented-generation-reasoning-extremely/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Xiaoyu Zhu, Long Yuan, Rui Qi, et al.*2026* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (12)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Language models & pretraining (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Bias, fairness & safety (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [English (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Information retrieval & search (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Vision & language (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Low-resource languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Interpretability (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) ## Fields [Computer Science (19)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (16)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Social Sciences (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Medicine (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Jinan Xu**2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinan-xu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Vani Kanjirangat**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vani-kanjirangat/) · [🧑‍🔬**Adilet Metinov**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adilet-metinov/) · [🧑‍🔬**Cristian Borcea**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cristian-borcea/) · [🧑‍🔬**Deeksha Varshney**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deeksha-varshney/) · [🧑‍🔬**Fred Philippy**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fred-philippy/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hongliang Li**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongliang-li/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jacques Klein**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacques-klein/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jimin Huang**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jimin-huang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kidist Amde Mekonnen**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kidist-amde-mekonnen/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kunpeng Liu**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kunpeng-liu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lei Li**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-li/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**Beijing Jiaotong University** Beijing · China 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-jiaotong-university/) · [🎓**Stevens Institute of Technology** Hoboken · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stevens-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of Rome Tor Vergata** Rome · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-rome-tor-vergata/) · [🎓**New Jersey Institute of Technology** Newark · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-jersey-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Portland State University** Portland · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/portland-state-university/) · [🏢**Oracle** Austin · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/oracle/) · [🎓**University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland** Manno · Switzerland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-applied-sciences-and-arts-of-southern-switzerland/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur** Jodhpur · India 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-jodhpur/) · [🎓**Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology** Daejeon · South Korea 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/korea-advanced-institute-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**The University of Queensland** Brisbane · Australia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-queensland/) · [🎓**Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology** Dhaka · Bangladesh 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bangladesh-university-of-engineering-and-technology/) · [🎓**King's College London** London · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/king-s-college-london/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [↑ back to Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)