Speak Beyond English: Multilingual Prompts Improve Query Classification in Small Language Models.

@inproceedings{banerjee-2026-speak, author = {Pratyay Banerjee and Panthadeep Bhattacharjee and Angshuman Jana}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Speak Beyond English: Multilingual Prompts Improve Query Classification in Small Language Models}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {5263--5265}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808528}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808528} }