arXiv AI
Sep 2

WorldBench: Culturally Grounded Benchmark for Multilingual Agents

WorldBench is a new multilingual benchmark that tests large language model agents on culturally grounded everyday workflows, offering 1,600 tasks in seven languages and eight cultures. The benchmark evaluates agents through structured sandbox actions and introduces Constrained Task Success (CTS), a metric that assesses task completion, minimal modification, and other complementary aspects via deterministic and LLM-as-a-Judge evaluations. Experiments show that even leading models achieve only 49.2% CTS, revealing significant gaps in correctness and state preservation across languages and cultures.

By Leonardo Ranaldi, Sherrie Shen, Jushi Kai, Alexandra Birch
arXiv AI
Sep 10

SEATauBench: Progressively Adapting Tool-Agent-User Evaluation Into Low-Resource Southeast Asian Languages

arXiv:2606.28715v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While AI development and evaluation for Southeast Asia (SEA) has grown rapidly, agent capabilities in regional languages are still poorly und...

By My Chiffon Nguyen, Aulia Adila, Saksorn Ruangtanusak, Kittiphat Leesombatwathana, Vissuta Gunawan Lim, Patomporn Payoungkhamdee, Samuel Cahyawijaya
arXiv AI
Jun 30

SEATauBench: Adapting Tool-Agent-User Evaluation Into Low-Resource Southeast Asian Languages

arXiv:2606. 28715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While AI development and evaluation for Southeast Asia (SEA) has grown rapidly, agent capabilities in regional languages are still poorly understood despite its importance to sovereign AI.

By My Chiffon Nguyen, Aulia Adila, Saksorn Ruangtanusak, Kittiphat Leesombatwathana, Vissuta Gunawan Lim, Patomporn Payoungkhamdee, Samuel Cahyawijaya
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 18

Evaluating Communicative Success in Machine-Translated Conversation

The paper introduces a three‑layer checklist-and-judge framework to evaluate interpreter agents that mediate live conversation across languages. It assesses semantic, pragmatic, and cultural‑social dimensions—naturalness, intent, and social appropriateness—rather than just fidelity, in both single‑turn and multi‑turn settings. Extensive validation shows that conventional MT metrics miss failures in stronger interpreters, and that context, structured instructions, and cultural cues influence communicative success.

By Faiz Ghifari Haznitrama, Alice Oh