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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T BIASEDTALES-ML: A Multilingual Dataset for Analyzing Narrative Attribute Distributions in LLM-Generated Stories
%A Ouyang, Yuxuan
%A Luo, Yingfeng
%A Zhu, JingBo
%A Xiao, Tong
%Y Liakata, Maria
%Y Moreira, Viviane P.
%Y Zhang, Jiajun
%Y Jurgens, David
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C San Diego, California, United States
%@ 979-8-89176-395-1
%F ouyang-etal-2026-biasedtales
%X Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate narrative content, including children’s stories, which play an important role in social and cultural learning. Despite growing interest in AI safety and alignment, most existing evaluations focus primarily on English, leaving the cross-lingual generalization of aligned behavior underexplored. In this work, we introduce BiasedTales-ML, a large-scale parallel corpus of approximately 350,000 children’s stories generated across eight typologically and culturally diverse languages using a full-permutation prompting design. We propose a structured generator-extractor pipeline and a multi-dimensional distributional analysis framework to examine how narrative attributes vary across languages, models, and social conditions.Our analysis reveals substantial cross-lingual variability in narrative generation patterns, indicating that distributions observed in English do not always exhibit similar characteristics in other languages, particularly in lower-resource settings. At the narrative level, we identify recurring structural patterns involving character roles, settings, and thematic emphasis, which manifest differently across linguistic contexts.These findings highlight the limitations of English-centric evaluation for characterizing socially grounded narrative generation in multilingual settings. We release the dataset, code, and an interactive visualization tool to support future research on multilingual narrative analysis and evaluation.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.862/
%P 17420-17436

Markdown (Informal)

[BIASEDTALES-ML: A Multilingual Dataset for Analyzing Narrative Attribute Distributions in LLM-Generated Stories](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.862/) (Ouyang et al., Findings 2026)

• BIASEDTALES-ML: A Multilingual Dataset for Analyzing Narrative Attribute Distributions in LLM-Generated Stories (Ouyang et al., Findings 2026)

ACL

• Yuxuan Ouyang, Yingfeng Luo, JingBo Zhu, and Tong Xiao. 2026. BIASEDTALES-ML: A Multilingual Dataset for Analyzing Narrative Attribute Distributions in LLM-Generated Stories. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, pages 17420–17436, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.