@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-masked,
    title = "The Masked Advantage: Uncovering Local-Language Access to Cultural Knowledge in {LLM}s",
    author = "Zhang, Yang  and
      Fei, Xiao  and
      Mohamed, Amr  and
      Carneiro, Sarah Almeida  and
      Konomi, Mersin  and
      Geng, Mingmeng  and
      Asaad, Ahmed  and
      Shang, Guokan  and
      Vazirgiannis, Michalis",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1754/",
    pages = "40007--40023",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}