@inproceedings{tan-etal-2026-cultureconverse,
    title = "{C}ulture{C}onverse: A Multilingual Multi-turn Simulation Harness for Culturally Grounded Assistance in East and {S}outheast {A}sia",
    author = "Tan, Bryan Chen Zhengyu  and
      Zheng, Weihua  and
      Doan, Thong T.  and
      Doan, Bich Ngoc  and
      Peh, Jia Wang  and
      Yi, Xiaoyuan  and
      Yao, Jing  and
      Xie, Xing  and
      Chen, Nancy F.  and
      Liu, Zhengyuan  and
      Bak, JinYeong  and
      Shamdi, Wafi  and
      Chie, Soo Kai  and
      Siong, Liew Yu  and
      Rezal, Aina Azyyati Binti Mohamad  and
      Vanessa, Lew Yan Yan  and
      Wu, Huadan  and
      Raharja, Dylan  and
      Wangsajaya, Nadya Yuki  and
      Fukushige, Akane  and
      Kato, Kazushi  and
      Inoue, Koji  and
      Kawahara, Tatsuya  and
      Seo, Jaehyung  and
      Kim, Dongjun  and
      Lee, Seungyoon  and
      Pang, Zi Haur  and
      Tan, Rui Yang  and
      Cheng, Charibeth Ko  and
      Estuar, Maria Regina Justina  and
      Montalan, Jann Railey  and
      Duc, Pham Minh  and
      Lee, Roy Ka-Wei",
    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.976/",
    pages = "22497--22550",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}