@inproceedings{zheng-etal-2026-mmac,
    title = "{MMAC}: A Multilingual, Multimodal Alignment Framework for Cultural Grounding Evaluation",
    author = "Zheng, Weihua  and
      Liu, Zhengyuan  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Xu, Weiwen  and
      Gao, Xiaoxue  and
      Tan, Bryan Chen Zhengyu  and
      Zou, Bowei  and
      Liu, Chang  and
      Hu, Yujia  and
      Xie, Xing  and
      Yi, Xiaoyuan  and
      Yao, Jing  and
      Wang, Chaojun  and
      Li, Long  and
      Liu, Rui  and
      Liu, Huiyao  and
      Inoue, Koji  and
      Sumida, Ryuichi  and
      Kawahara, Tatsuya  and
      Xu, Fan  and
      Ye, Lingyu  and
      Tian, Wei  and
      Kim, Dongjun  and
      Jung, Jimin  and
      Seo, Jaehyung  and
      Wangsajaya, Nadya Yuki  and
      Duc, Pham Minh  and
      Saxena, Ojasva  and
      Nandi, Palash  and
      Tao, Xiyan  and
      Karlina, Wiwik  and
      Luong, Tuan  and
      Vasan, Keertana Arun  and
      Lee, Roy Ka-Wei  and
      Chen, Nancy F.",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.989/",
    pages = "21667--21709",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6"
}