@inproceedings{bhowmik-etal-2026-script, title = "Script Fragmentation and Format: What Drives the {E}nglish-{B}engali Performance Gap in Open {LLM}s?", author = "Bhowmik, Shimanto and Dipto, Tawsif Tashwar and Islam, Md Sazzad and Hsu, Sheryl and Reasat, Tahsin", editor = "Ponnusamy, Rahul and Kumaresan, Prasanna Kumar and Rajiakodi, Saranya and B, Premjith and MC, Shunmuga Priya and Murugappan, Abirami and G, Jyothish Lal and V, Sowmya and Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Multimodal Machine Learning in Low-resource Languages", month = nov, year = "2026", address = "Hengqin, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.mmlow-main.1/", pages = "1--17", ISBN = "979-8-89176-445-3" }