@inproceedings{kadiyala-etal-2025-improving, title = "Improving Multilingual Capabilities with Cultural and Local Knowledge in Large Language Models While Enhancing Native Performance", author = "Kadiyala, Ram Mohan Rao and Pullakhandam, Siddartha and Gupta, Siddhant and Purbey, Jebish and Sharma, Drishti and Mehreen, Kanwal and Arham, Muhammad and Debnath, Suman and Farooq, Hamza", editor = "Inui, Kentaro and Sakti, Sakriani and Wang, Haofen and Wong, Derek F. and Bhattacharyya, Pushpak and Banerjee, Biplab and Ekbal, Asif and Chakraborty, Tanmoy and Singh, Dhirendra Pratap", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics", month = dec, year = "2025", address = "Mumbai, India", publisher = "The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing and The Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-ijcnlp-aacl/2025.ijcnlp-long.189/", pages = "3618--3641", ISBN = "979-8-89176-298-5" }