Bryan Tan
2026
SemEval-2026 Task 7: Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures
Nedjma Ousidhoum | Junho Myung | Carla Perez-Almendros | Jiho Jin | Amr Keleg | Meriem Beloucif | Yi Zhou | Rodrigo Agerri | Vladimir Araujo | Naomi Baes | James Barry | Joanne Boisson | Nancy F. Chen | Christine de Kock | Aleksandra Edwards | Joseba Fernandez de Landa | Mohamed Fazli Imam | Huda Hakami | Shu-Kai Hsieh | Joseph Marvin Imperial | Roy Ka-Wei Lee | Zhengyuan Liu | Chenyang Lyu | Younes Samih | Johan Sjons | Bryan Tan | Asahi Ushio | Weihua Zheng | Alice Oh | Jose Camacho-Collados
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
Nedjma Ousidhoum | Junho Myung | Carla Perez-Almendros | Jiho Jin | Amr Keleg | Meriem Beloucif | Yi Zhou | Rodrigo Agerri | Vladimir Araujo | Naomi Baes | James Barry | Joanne Boisson | Nancy F. Chen | Christine de Kock | Aleksandra Edwards | Joseba Fernandez de Landa | Mohamed Fazli Imam | Huda Hakami | Shu-Kai Hsieh | Joseph Marvin Imperial | Roy Ka-Wei Lee | Zhengyuan Liu | Chenyang Lyu | Younes Samih | Johan Sjons | Bryan Tan | Asahi Ushio | Weihua Zheng | Alice Oh | Jose Camacho-Collados
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
We present our shared task on evaluating the adaptability of LLMs and NLP systems across multiple languages and cultures. The task data consist of an extended version of our manually constructed BLEnD benchmark (Myung et al., 2024), covering more than 30 language–culture pairs, predominantly representing low-resource languages spoken across multiple continents. As the task is designed strictly for evaluation, participants were not permitted to use the data for training, fine-tuning, few-shot learning, or any other form of model modification.Our task includes two tracks: (a) Short-Answer Questions (SAQ) and (b) Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQ). Participants were required to predict labels and were allowed to submit any NLP system and adopt diverse modelling strategies, provided that the benchmark was used solely for evaluation. The task attracted more than 140 registered participants, and we received final submissions from 62 teams, along with 19 system description papers.We report the results and present an analysis of the best-performing systems and the most commonly adopted approaches. Furthermore, we discuss shared insights into open questions and challenges related to evaluation, misalignment, and methodological perspectives on model behaviour in low-resource languages and for under-represented cultures. Our data and resources are available at https://github.com/BLEnD-SemEval2026/SemEval-2026-Task-7.
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- Rodrigo Agerri 1
- Vladimir Araujo 1
- Naomi Baes 1
- James Barry 1
- Meriem Beloucif 1
- Joanne Boisson 1
- Jose Camacho-Collados 1
- Nancy Chen 1
- Aleksandra Edwards 1
- Mohamed Fazli Imam 1
- Joseba Fernandez de Landa 1
- Huda Hakami 1
- Shu-Kai Hsieh 1
- Joseph Marvin Imperial 1
- Jiho Jin 1
- Amr Keleg 1
- Roy Ka-Wei Lee 1
- Zhengyuan Liu 1
- Chenyang Lyu 1
- Junho Myung 1
- Alice Oh 1
- Nedjma Ousidhoum 1
- Carla Perez-Almendros 1
- Younes Samih 1
- Johan Sjons 1
- Asahi Ushio 1
- Weihua Zheng 1
- Yi Zhou 1
- Christine de Kock 1