@inproceedings{kim-etal-2026-koala, title = "{K}o{AL}a-Bench: Evaluating Large Audio Language Models on {K}orean Speech Understanding and Faithfulness", author = "Kim, Jinyoung and Lim, Hyeongsoo and Seo, Eun Seo and Jang, Min Ho and Choi, Keunwoo and Shin, Seungyoun and Yoon, Ji Won", 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.296/", pages = "6807--6844", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }