@inproceedings{sayeedi-etal-2026-many, title = "Many Dialects, Many Languages, One Cultural Lens: Evaluating Multilingual {VLM}s for {B}engali Culture Understanding Across Historically Linked Languages and Regional Dialects", author = "Sayeedi, Nurul Labib and Sayeedi, Md. Faiyaz Abdullah and Roy Dipta, Shubhashis and E Sobhani, Mahbub and Tabassum, Rubaya and Hridoy, Ariful Ekraj and Mahmood, Mehraj and Hasan, Md. Tarek and Shatabda, Swakkhar", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.2129/", pages = "45421--45454", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }