Beyond Understanding: Evaluating the Pragmatic Gap in LLMs' Cultural Processing of Figurative Language

Mena Attia, Aashiq Muhamed, Mai Alkhamissi, Thamar Solorio, Mona T. Diab. Beyond Understanding: Evaluating the Pragmatic Gap in LLMs' Cultural Processing of Figurative Language. In Vera Demberg, Kentaro Inui, LluĂ­s Marquez, editors, Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2026 - Volume 1: Long Papers, Rabat, Morocco, March 24-29, 2026. pages 7238-7265, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026. [doi]

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