StereACuLT 2026
The 1st Workshop on Stereotypes Across Cultures in Language Technologies
July 3, 2026 | ACL 2026 | San Diego, California, USA
Program
14:00-14:30 Keynote 1
Rolando Coto-Solano
Biases when processing Indigenous languages in Large Language Models
14:30–15:00 Keynote 2
Caleb Ziems
TBD
15:00–17:00 Oral Presentation Session
15:00–15:15 Adaptive Data Collection for Latin-American Community-sourced Evaluation of Stereotypes (LACES)
Authors: Guido Ivetta, Pietro Palombini, Sofía Martinelli, Marcos J Gomez, M Emilia Echeveste, Sunipa Dev, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Luciana Benotti
15:15–15:30 SAFARI: A Community-Engaged Approach and Dataset of Stereotype Resources in the Sub-Saharan African Context
Authors: Aishwarya Verma, Laud Ammah, Olivia Nercy Ndlovu Lucas, Andrew Zaldivar, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Sunipa Dev
15:30–16:00 Break
16:00–16:15 Signals Are Not States: Neuro-Symbolic Safeguards for Culturally Aware Classroom AI
Author: Sina Bagheri Nezhad
16:15–16:30 AmchiBias: Measuring Stereotypical Bias in Goan Identity Groups with a Minimal Pair Dataset in English and Konkani
Authors: Michelle Barbosa, Sebastian Padó, Franziska Weeber
16:30–16:45 PAL: Sample-Efficient Personalized Reward Modeling for Pluralistic Alignment
Authors: Daiwei Chen, Yi Chen, Aniket Rege, Zhi Wang, Ramya Korlakai Vinayak
16:45–17:00 DIVERGE: Diversity-Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Open-Ended Information Seeking
Authors: Tianyi Hu, Niket Tandon, Akhil Arora
17:00–17:30 Poster Session
Language Shapes Mental Health Evaluations in Large Language Models
Authors: Jiayi Xu, Xiyang Hu
Through the Looking Glass of Multilingual AI: Contrasting Language- and Name Script-Dependent Ethnic Hierarchies in GPT and DeepSeek
Authors: Annabella Sakunkoo, Jonathan Sakunkoo
CrowS-Pairs-NL: A Benchmark to Evaluate Dutch Stereotype Bias in LLMs
Authors: Jens van der Weide, Dong Nguyen, Marianne Schaaphok, Roos M. Bakker
Lost in Translation: Cross-Cultural Bias in LLM-Assisted Medical Symptom Interpretation
Authors: Yuting Tian, Salar Khaleghzadegan, Benjamin Huh, Yash Raj, Gena Heng
Exploratory As-Analyzed No-Detection of Culturally-Marked Predicate-Triggered PII Amplification in a Synthetic-English RAG Probe: A Predicate-Resource-Confounded Audit
Authors: Yanhang Li, Zhichao Fan, Zexin Zhuang
Controlling Cross-Lingual Answer Distributions in Language Models: Enabling Transfer of Factual Preferences
Authors: Lukas Ellinger, Alexander Manev, Georg Groh
Counterfactual Auditing of Cross-Cultural Variation in LLM-Generated Medical Advice
Authors: Hyunwoo Yoo, Gail Rosen
Stereotyped by Silence: How LLMs Erase Northeast Indian Languages Through Omission and Orthographic Corruption
Author: Badal Nyalang
The Missing Minimal Pair: Mutual Information for Stereotype Evaluation in LLMs
Authors: Nataliya Stepanova, Gustavo Cilleruelo Calderón, Ivan Titov, Emily Allaway, Björn Ross
Whose Pragmatics? Cultural Grounding as a Bottleneck for Stereotype Detection in Egyptian Arabic Social Media
Author: Samar A. Assem
Easy to Add, Hard to Erase: Causal Evidence on Stereotype Editing in LLMs
Authors: Benjamin Huh, Hak Hyun Kim, Jason Peng
Robustness of Cultural Norm Reasoning Under Language and Context Perturbations
Authors: Ankita Maity, Sajag Swami, Van Ngo, Akhil Arora, Nikita Moghe
Jury Duty: Calibration and Orientation Failures in MLLM-as-a-Judge Under Cultural Ambiguity
Authors: Daniel Lee, Harshit Sharma, Eunkyu Park, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Jeonghwan Kim, Kah Mun Chia, Shafiq Joty
Measuring Semantic Flow Without Direction: A Rhizomatic Protocol for Stereotype Translation in Cross-Cultural Language Technology
Author: Gustavo Aviña Cerecer
Unveiling Asymmetry in Large Language Models’ Ability to Translate Culture
Authors: Ruyuan Zuo, Kartik Goyal
Translation Is Not Representation: English-Hub Routing in Cross-Lingual Bias Benchmarks
Authors: Hak Hyun Kim, Benjamin Huh
IndicSteer: Inference-Time Safety Steering for Indic LLMs
Authors: Ruhaib Muhammad, Saahas Vijayalakshmi Rajaram, Suriya Priyan Durairaj