@inproceedings{zhou-etal-2026-cross, title = "Cross-Lingual Alignment Without Joint Training: Do Monolingual Language Models Converge on Universal Representations?", author = "Zhou, Ej and Salhan, Suchir and Arnett, Catherine and Korhonen, Anna", 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.947/", pages = "21811--21837", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }