The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE)

The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor 2026-10 Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary text conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 oracle-2026-main https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.0/ Empathy or Escalation? A Multilingual Framework for Assessing Anxiety-Inducing Language in LLMs Leonardo Arcangeli author Carlotta Foschini author Ilaria Melis author Giulia Pucci author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 arcangeli-etal-2026-empathy https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.1/ 2026-10 1 21 The Sycophancy Matrix: Measuring and Steering Ethos-Driven Sycophancy Across Languages and Cultures Gabriele Maraia author Micol Menchi author Alessia Fidelibus author Luana Magnante author Irene Orlando author Gaia Palazzi author Fabio Massimo Zanzotto author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 maraia-etal-2026-sycophancy https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.2/ 2026-10 22 39 EvenVLM: A Text and Multimodal Dataset for the Even Language with Vision-Language Fine-Tuning Daniil Makovetskii author Ivan Bondarenko author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 makovetskii-bondarenko-2026-evenvlm https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.3/ 2026-10 40 46 Jako Tako or Fluent? Presenting PoVisLE: A Polish Vision-Language Evaluation Anna Kołos author Grzegorz Statkiewicz author Karolina Seweryn author Katarzyna Kowol author Karolina Piosek author Wojciech Kusa author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 kolos-etal-2026-jako https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.4/ 2026-10 47 74 Chain-of-Thought in a Low-Resource Language: A Factorial Study of Exemplar and Reasoning Language Effects in Urdu Ateeb Ahmed author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 ahmed-2026-chain https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.5/ 2026-10 75 83 Same SQL, Different Decision: Aggregate Risk Hides Cross-Lingual Instability in Text-to-SQL Verification Avinash Goutham Aluguvelly author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 aluguvelly-2026-sql https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.6/ 2026-10 84 98 On-Policy Delta Distillation for Multilingual Math Reasoning Byeongho Heo author Jaehui Hwang author Sangdoo Yun author Dongyoon Han author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 heo-etal-2026-policy https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.7/ 2026-10 99 106 Cross Lingual Transfer in Tulu Legal Comprehension: Script-Dependent Improvement and RAG-Induced Knowledge Conflict Sindhu Shetty author Spurthi Setty author Alina Kapanova author Natan Vidra author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 shetty-etal-2026-cross https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.8/ 2026-10 107 133 Language-Triggered Value Inconsistencies in Multilingual LLMs Mauricio Neubecker author Maximilian Eder author Tim Würfl author Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier author Jeyashree Krishnan author Ajay Mandyam Rangarajan author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 neubecker-etal-2026-language https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.9/ 2026-10 134 149 MedRECT: A Bilingual Medical Reasoning Benchmark for Error Correction in Clinical Texts Naoto Iwase author Hiroki Okuyama author Junichiro Iwasawa author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 iwase-etal-2026-medrect https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.10/ 2026-10 150 165 Country Is Not Enough: Recognition Action Gaps in Cultural Answerability Aditya Channa author Madhav Kapoor author Jastej Singh author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 channa-etal-2026-country https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.11/ 2026-10 166 176 One Vector, Thirty-Eight Languages: Benchmark-Derived Anti-Sycophancy Steering Works Worst Where Sycophancy Is Worst Avinash Goutham Aluguvelly author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 aluguvelly-2026-one https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.12/ 2026-10 177 193 Does Safety Reasoning Travel? A Multilingual Measurement of Prompt-Injection Attacks and Runtime Monitors in Tool-Using LLM Agents Ruiyang Zhang author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 zhang-2026-safety https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.13/ 2026-10 194 204 Cultural Alignment of Open-Weight LLMs on the Inglehart–Welzel Map Shav Vimalendiran author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 vimalendiran-2026-cultural https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.14/ 2026-10 205 233 How Well Do Language Models Handle Romanian Diacritics? A Comparison of Monolingual and Multilingual Architectures Alexandra Toma author Maria Cristina Popescu author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 toma-popescu-2026-well https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.15/ 2026-10 234 245 Mining Motifs in Fairy Tales Saba Shahsavari author Alessa Mayer author Fabian M Suchanek author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 shahsavari-etal-2026-mining https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.16/ 2026-10 246 256 Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Symbolic Folk-Art Interpretation: Comparing Dense and Graph-Based Retrieval Using Korean Minhwa Minjun Song author Sumin Kim author Junsung Kim author Yebeen Lee author Heung-No Lee author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 song-etal-2026-retrieval https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.17/ 2026-10 257 275 We’re Cooked! – Probing LLM Political Alignment Via Conflict-Framed Recipe Translation Svetlana Gorovaia author Angelica Henestrosa author Ivan P Yamshchikov author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 gorovaia-etal-2026-cooked https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.18/ 2026-10 276 285 UrduBench: An Urdu Reasoning Benchmark using Contextually Ensembled Translations with Human-in-the-Loop Muhammad Ali Shafique author Areej Mehboob author Layba Fiaz author Muhammad Usman Qadeer author Hamza Farooq author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 shafique-etal-2026-urdubench https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.19/ 2026-10 286 303 Probing the Think–Say Gap on Sensitive Concepts in Chinese and English Open LLMs Yu-Chieh Wang author Lang-Ching Yeh author Guan-Yu Tseng author Shu-Kai Hsieh author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 wang-etal-2026-probing https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.20/ 2026-10 304 315 Why Calques Look Rare in Hindi Model Output: A Human-Anchored Measurement Study Abdur Rahman author Vasu Sharma author Mohammad Saifullah author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 rahman-etal-2026-calques https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.21/ 2026-10 316 328 CultAct-ML: Measuring Cultural Value Defaults in Multilingual LLM Agents Under Action Ahmad Fahmid author Jannatul Ferdous Mim author Md Adnan Arefeen author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 fahmid-etal-2026-cultact https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.22/ 2026-10 329 338 Sample-Matched Comparisons Overstate Test-Time Compute Gains Srinivas Harish author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 harish-2026-sample https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.23/ 2026-10 339 353 Tokenization Sets the Measurement Scale for Cross-Lingual Diagnostics Arij Riabi author Valentin Noël author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 riabi-noel-2026-tokenization https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.24/ 2026-10 354 380 Preserving Identity, Losing Practice: Religious Schema Transfer in Culturally Grounded Multi-Turn LLM Advice Muhammad Junaid Iqbal author Fabio Massimo Zanzotto author Usman Nawaz author Tahir Alyas author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 iqbal-etal-2026-preserving https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.25/ 2026-10 381 391 SQARB: A Benchmark of Sophisticated Question Answering and Reasoning in Belarusian Vladislav Poritski author Oksana Volchek author Maksim Aparovich author Volha Harytskaya author Pavel Smrz author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 poritski-etal-2026-sqarb https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.26/ 2026-10 392 405 It Knows More Than It Can Say: Self-Evolving Prompts for Extremely Low-Resource Languages Gaurav Sarkar author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 sarkar-2026-knows https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.27/ 2026-10 406 411 Beyond Surface Form: Probing Script and Discourse-Marker Sensitivity in Marathi LLM Reasoning Tejas Patil author Barnali Chetia author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 patil-chetia-2026-beyond-surface https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.28/ 2026-10 412 419 Investigating the Role of Reasoning-Language Alignment in Monolingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation Oliver Hauck author Mario Sanz-Guerrero author Katharina von der Wense author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 hauck-etal-2026-investigating https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.29/ 2026-10 420 432 The IOL-AI Challenge: An Open Challenge towards Advancing Linguistic Reasoning Eduardo Sánchez author Rita Berrada author Dan-Mircea Mirea author Sara Rajaee author Alexander Piperski author Ana Meta Dolinar author Boris Iomdin author Andrey Nikulin author Mariya Shmatova author Marzieh Fadaee author Julia Kreutzer author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 sanchez-etal-2026-iol https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.30/ 2026-10 433 458 Recognized but Not Produced: A Generation Benchmark for Culturally Specific Kinship Terms Sahil Pardasani author Madhusudan Singh author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 pardasani-singh-2026-recognized https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.31/ 2026-10 459 467 Knowledge-Graph Based Augmentation versus Retrieval Augmented Generation for Cultural-Related Question Answering Pablo Poulenard author Yannis Karmim author Valentin Barrière author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 poulenard-etal-2026-knowledge https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.32/ 2026-10 468 475 Do Multilingual Models Represent Colour Differently Across Languages? The Gap Is in the Vocabularies Rong Wang author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 wang-2026-multilingual https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.33/ 2026-10 476 483 Naturalistic Measure of Social Norms Alignment Yevhen Kostiuk author Kenneth Enevoldsen author Peter Bjerregaard Vahlstrup author Márton Kardos author Kristoffer Nielbo author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 kostiuk-etal-2026-naturalistic https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.34/ 2026-10 484 514 Prompt as Stratified Interface: Decomposing Label-Mediated Effects in Chinese-English NLI Hua Zhao author Zhiqing Yang author Michelle Mingyue Gu author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 zhao-etal-2026-prompt https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.35/ 2026-10 515 533 A Vision for Cultural Alignment: Opportunities and Safety Imperatives for AI in Mental Health Support Ratna Kandala author Akshata Kishore Moharir author Niva Manchanda author Samantha Adorno author 2026-10 text The Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Reasoning Across Cultures Languages (ORACLE) Leonardo Ranaldi editor Giulia Pucci editor Federico Ranaldi editor Marco Valentino editor Alexandra Birch editor Fabio Massimo Zanzotto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-483-5 kandala-etal-2026-vision https://aclanthology.org/2026.oracle-main.36/ 2026-10 534 541