Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026)

Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor 2026-10 Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary text conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 mrl-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.0/ Testing the Assumptions of Active Learning for Translation Tasks with Few Samples Lorenzo Jaime Yu Flores author Cesare Spinoso-Di Piano author Ori Ernst author David Ifeoluwa Adelani author Jackie Chi Kit Cheung author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 flores-etal-2026-testing https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.1/ 2026-10 1 18 NEDOQwen: Diagnosing and Repairing a Turkish-Centric Small Language Model for Multilingual Evaluation Ahmet Rıfat Öztürk author Yağız Ekrem Dalar author Nedim Mutlu Sezer author Ömer Faruk Aksoy author Feyzi Arda Salihoğlu author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 ozturk-etal-2026-nedoqwen https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.2/ 2026-10 19 26 One Image, No Tokens: A Controlled Study of Glyph-Based Chinese Language Modeling Shuyang Xiang author Hao Guan author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 xiang-guan-2026-one https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.3/ 2026-10 27 36 Subword-Based Comparative Linguistics across 242 Languages Using Wikipedia Glottosets Iaroslav Chelombitko author Mika Hämäläinen author Aleksey Komissarov author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 chelombitko-etal-2026-subword https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.4/ 2026-10 37 52 Language Coverage Is Not Variety Coverage: Lexical Underrepresentation of Classical Chinese in Multilingual Tokenizers Lifan Deng author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 deng-2026-language https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.5/ 2026-10 53 57 More Capable, Less Faithful: A Multilingual Analysis of Mathematical (Un)Solvability Detection in LLMs Maria-Eleni Zoumpoulidi author Nikolaos Xiros author Georgios Paraskevopoulos author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 zoumpoulidi-etal-2026-capable https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.6/ 2026-10 58 67 Leaving the English Basin: A Logit-Lens View of Cross-Lingual Emotion Transfer in Multilingual LLMs Zarina Uvalieva author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 uvalieva-2026-leaving https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.7/ 2026-10 68 90 mAceReason-Math: A Dataset of High-quality Multilingual Math Problems Ready for RLVR Konstantin Dobler author Simon Lehnerer author Federico Scozzafava author Jonathan Janke author Mohamed Ali author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 dobler-etal-2026-macereason https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.8/ 2026-10 91 101 Paradigms over Surface Cues: Inflection Class Drives Hindi Gender Assignment in Expert-Annotated Noun Paradigms John Alderete author Yogya Agrawal author Tra My Nguyen author Puja Shah author Aanchan Mohan author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 alderete-etal-2026-paradigms https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.9/ 2026-10 102 118 Why Better Cross-Lingual Alignment Fails for Better Cross-Lingual Transfer: Case of Encoders Yana Veitsman author Yihong Liu author Hinrich Schuetze author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 veitsman-etal-2026-better https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.10/ 2026-10 119 134 What Improves Akkadian Machine Translation, and What Only Seems To? Francesco la Rosa author Jaehyuk Choi author King Shun Hanson Siu author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 rosa-etal-2026-improves https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.11/ 2026-10 135 150 Wisdom in Unity: The Role of Multilingual Training in Figurative Language Identification in Proverbs Rama Khalid Alomair author Remas Hezam Alsubaie author Walaa Saif Aleslam Mohammed author Rima Khalid Alsonbul author Mona Saleh Alnajjar author Razan Saeed Aldosari author Haya Al-Ibrahim author Abeer Aldayel author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 alomair-etal-2026-wisdom https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.12/ 2026-10 151 166 Cross-Lingual Gaps in Visual STEM Reasoning: Auditing VLMs Across Six Indian Languages Swastik R author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 r-2026-cross https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.13/ 2026-10 167 182 Testing Language Model Sensitivity to Object-Anaphoric Accessibility: Persian ye(k) and English indefinite this Nikta Yekrang Safakar author Sebastian Padó author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 safakar-pado-2026-testing https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.14/ 2026-10 183 195 Loss-Guided Vocabulary Discovery for Multilingual Static Encoders Boris Malashenko author Ivan Jarsky author Sviatoslav A Stumpf author Valeria Efimova author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 malashenko-etal-2026-loss https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.15/ 2026-10 196 205 VaaniCLIP: Cross-Lingual Speech-Text Retrieval for Indic Languages Vamsi Adari author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 adari-2026-vaaniclip https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.16/ 2026-10 206 220 Natural, Synthetic, or Mixed Supervision for Open-Weight Arabic Grammatical Error Correction Mohammed Alnuwaiser author Mohammed Albalawi author Thikra Mansoor Alghamdi author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 alnuwaiser-etal-2026-natural https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.17/ 2026-10 221 229 Geometric Representations of African Languages: A Regional Semantic Hub and Cultural Steering Muhammad Abdullahi Said author Jonathan P Shock author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 said-shock-2026-geometric https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.18/ 2026-10 230 244 Does Safety Live in a Shared Multilingual Subspace? Cross-Lingual (Non-)Transfer of the Refusal Direction Ruiyang Zhang author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 zhang-2026-safety-live https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.19/ 2026-10 245 256 Is TunisianMMLU Actually Tunisian? A Native-Speaker Audit of a Machine-Translated Dialect Benchmark Fatma Ezzahra Jlali author Marek Šuppa author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 jlali-suppa-2026-tunisianmmlu https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.20/ 2026-10 257 269 Two Emojis of Difference: What Multilingual Affective Generation Benchmarks Actually Measure Fardeen Sadab author Adib Sakhawat author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 sadab-sakhawat-2026-two https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.21/ 2026-10 270 279 State Tracking vs. Attention in a Morphologically Rich Low-Resource Language: A Controlled Bangla Case Study with Mamba-3 Sahil al Farib author Momota Ahsana Meem author Sheikh Redwanul Islam author Khan Md. Shams Arefin author Azizur Rahman Anik author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 al-farib-etal-2026-state https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.22/ 2026-10 280 288 Beyond Aggregate Loss: Training Dynamics and Language-Specific Scaling Laws for Multilingual Language Models Renren Jin author Deyi Xiong author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 jin-xiong-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.23/ 2026-10 289 299 Evaluating and Debiasing Multilingual Backpack Language Model Representations Jennifer Jane Ries author Kavya Venkatesh author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 ries-venkatesh-2026-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.24/ 2026-10 300 309 When Cross-Lingual Consistency Is Not Enough: Diagnostics for Low-Resource Political Actor Portrayal Abdul Razaq Vahidi author Sebastian Padó author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 vahidi-pado-2026-cross https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.25/ 2026-10 310 319 What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Tokenization? Gianluca Vico author Jindřich Libovický author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 vico-libovicky-2026-talk https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.26/ 2026-10 320 333 Where Are Language-Specific Features Represented in Multilingual LLMs? Everywhere Mikaela Martins author Jonathan Dunn author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 martins-dunn-2026-language https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.27/ 2026-10 334 348 Typological Features are Multiple-Choice Questions, not Yes/No Questions: Lessons from Typological Feature-Value Embeddings Tung-Le Pan author Shu-Kai Hsieh author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 pan-hsieh-2026-typological https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.28/ 2026-10 349 365 One Meaning, Many Romanizations: Selective Stability of Multilingual Representations under Informal Indic Romanization Divyajot Singh author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 singh-2026-one https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.29/ 2026-10 366 376 When Multilingual Embeddings Collapse: Representation Failure and Metric (Un)reliability for Hausa and Fongbe Machine Translation Mahounan Pericles Adjovi author Roald Eiselen author Prasenjit Mitra author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 adjovi-etal-2026-multilingual https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.30/ 2026-10 377 385 Multilingual Datasets for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Keith Vertanen author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 vertanen-2026-multilingual https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.31/ 2026-10 386 393 Whisper-Style Speech Encoders Align Semantically Beyond Phonetic Cues Ryan Soh-Eun Shim author Domenico de Cristofaro author Chengzhi Martin Hu author Alessandro Vietti author Barbara Plank author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 shim-etal-2026-whisper https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.32/ 2026-10 394 403 Cross-Lingual Transfer and Shared Geometry of Deception Probes in LLMs Matheus Prado Miranda author Marcelo Sartori Locatelli author Virgilio Almeida author Wagner Meira Jr. author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 miranda-etal-2026-cross https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.33/ 2026-10 404 421 Does CoT-Pass@k Really Check the CoT? A Multilingual Mathematical Audit Tarık Tuna Taşaltı author Burcu Hudaverdi author David Semedo author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 tasalti-etal-2026-cot https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.34/ 2026-10 422 444 Cross-Lingual Transfer of Evil Vectors Is Directionally Asymmetric Juann Kim author Kang MinKu author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 kim-minku-2026-cross https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.35/ 2026-10 445 454 Interpretable Text-Based Prosodic Boundary Prediction for Hindi Children’s Stories Sakshi Jadhav author Mansi Dhamne author Preeti Rao author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 jadhav-etal-2026-interpretable https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.36/ 2026-10 455 466 Impact of Bilingual Corpus on Pretraining Large Language Models: An Analysis for Turkish Elif Özge Yılmaz author Melike Uysal author Cagri Toraman author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 yilmaz-etal-2026-impact https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.37/ 2026-10 467 479 RunyaNER: Auxiliary Language Selection for Runyankore NER Prosper Arineitwe Asiimwe author Francois Meyer author Jan Buys author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 asiimwe-etal-2026-runyaner https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.38/ 2026-10 480 491 The Cost of Asking in Turkish: Prompt Language Effects on Code LLMs Mert İncidelen author Melike Kaya author Elif İşbilir author Yunus Santur author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2026) David Ifeoluwa Adelani editor Jesujoba Alabi editor Catherine Arnett editor Tyler Chang editor C M Downey editor Omer Goldman editor Senyu Li editor Lester James Validad Miranda editor Jirui Qi editor David Stap editor Genta Indra Winata editor Xinyu Crystina Zhang editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-469-9 incidelen-etal-2026-cost https://aclanthology.org/2026.mrl-1.39/ 2026-10 492 496 How Does Continued African Adaptation Reshape Multilingual Representations? 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