Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026)

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor 2026-07 Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States text conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 c3nlp-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.0/ Annotation as Cultural Interpretation: Rethinking Data Labeling in NLP Wajdi Zaghouani author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 zaghouani-2026-annotation https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.1/ 2026-07 1 10 Somatic in the East, Psychological in the West?: A Clinically-Grounded Evaluation of Cross-Cultural Depression Symptoms in LLMs Shintaro Sakai author Jisun An author Migyeong Kang author Haewoon Kwak author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 sakai-etal-2026-somatic https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.2/ 2026-07 11 39 Modeling Cultural and Subcultural Variation in Code-Switched Discourse with Topic Annotation Nemika Tyagi author Nelvin Licona-Guevara author Olga Kellert author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 tyagi-etal-2026-modeling https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.3/ 2026-07 40 49 GCCLA: Graph-Conditioned Cross-Lingual Adaptation of Large Language Models Under Extreme Data Scarcity (A Case Study in Tigrigna) Hagos Gebremedhin Gebremeskel author Chong Feng author Asefa Mebrahtu Abera author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 gebremeskel-etal-2026-gccla https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.4/ 2026-07 50 66 LLM-Adapted Colombian Spanish Lexicography: Proficiency Control, Hallucination, and Cultural Distortion Johnatan E Bonilla author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 bonilla-2026-llm https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.5/ 2026-07 67 75 Soft Prompts for Adapting LLMs to Cultural Commonsense Knowledge Gabrielle Le Bellier author Marine Carpuat author Benoît Sagot author Chloé Clavel author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 bellier-etal-2026-soft https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.6/ 2026-07 76 100 The Mirage of Diversity: Unmasking the Cultural Vocabulary Ceiling in LLMs Soumedhik Bharati author Subhrajit Mukherjee author Shibam Mandal author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 bharati-etal-2026-mirage https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.7/ 2026-07 101 107 The American Palimpsest: Quantifying South Asian English Dialect Erasure in LLMs Soumedhik Bharati author Shibam Mandal author Swarup Kr Ghosh author Sayani Mondal author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 bharati-etal-2026-american https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.8/ 2026-07 108 118 Toward Culturally Grounded Natural Language Processing Sina Bagheri Nezhad author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 bagheri-nezhad-2026-toward https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.9/ 2026-07 119 131 TabletCraft: Bridging a 4,000-Year Cultural Gap with Bidirectional Akkadian NMT and Cuneiform Rendering Zhaohui Geoffrey Wang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 wang-2026-tabletcraft https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.10/ 2026-07 132 136 Lost in Translation? How Language Shapes Responsibility Attribution in Large Language Models Pavithra P M Nair author Gilad Gressel author Krishnashree Achuthan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 nair-etal-2026-lost https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.11/ 2026-07 137 149 Ontology-oriented lexico-semantic modeling and neural classification of Chinese chéngyǔ: A culture-aware NLP approach Lian Chen author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 chen-2026-ontology https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.12/ 2026-07 150 160 “Sorry, Can’t Help You”: How Large Language Models Judge Failures to Help Across Languages Pavithra P M Nair author Gilad Gressel author Krishnashree Achuthan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 nair-etal-2026-sorry https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.13/ 2026-07 161 176 Does Reasoning Kill the Joke? Long-Context Humor Understanding in Hindi Kaveri Anuranjana author Navya Shrivastava author Atharv Johar author Rishabh Sabharwal author Gautam Ranka author Aryan Lunawat author Punit Rathore author Radhika Mamidi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 anuranjana-etal-2026-reasoning https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.14/ 2026-07 177 186 One Style Fits All? Cultural Values Embedded in Conversational AI via a People-Pleasing Lens Yi-Jun Chen author I-Tsen Hsieh author Li-Wun Chang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 chen-etal-2026-one https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.15/ 2026-07 187 203 Beyond Monolithic Culture: Evaluating Understandability of Online Text Across Cultural Dimensions Saurabh Kumar Pandey author Harshit Gupta author Sougata Saha author Monojit Choudhury author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2026) Vinodkumar Prabhakaran editor Sunipa Dev editor Luciana Benotti editor Daniel Hershcovich editor Yong Cao editor Li Zhou editor BOlei Ma editor Ife Adebara editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-420-0 pandey-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.c3nlp-1.16/ 2026-07 204 220