The Alignment Gap: A Benchmark Demonstrating the Lack of Cross-Lingual Mapping in Dialect-Specialized Language Models - The Case of Ehugbo.

@inproceedings{haas-2026-alignment, author = {Stephanie W. Haas and Ukachi Agnes Eze-Mbey and Stephanie W. Haas and Ukachi Agnes Eze-Mbey and Victor Tolulope Olufemi and Athanase Biluge Bahizire and Mikel K. Ngueajio and Prasenjit Mitra}, 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 = {{The Alignment Gap: A Benchmark Demonstrating the Lack of Cross-Lingual Mapping in Dialect-Specialized Language Models - The Case of Ehugbo}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {3152--3158}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808622}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808622} }