@inproceedings{ng-etal-2026-modality, title = "Modality Matching Matters: Calibrating Language Distances for Cross-Lingual Transfer in {URIEL}+", author = {Ng, York Hay and Khan, Aditya and Lu, Xiang and Salloum, Matteo and Zhou, Michael and Hoang, Phuong Hanh and Do{\u{g}}ru{\"o}z, A. Seza and Lee, En-Shiun Annie}, editor = "Baez Santamaria, Selene and Somayajula, Sai Ashish and Yamaguchi, Atsuki", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)", month = mar, year = "2026", address = "Rabat, Morocco", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.eacl-srw.8/", pages = "110--130", ISBN = "979-8-89176-383-8" }