SPLIT: Cross-Lingual Empathy and Cultural Grounding in English and Ukrainian LLM Responses
Large Language Models are increasingly deployed in emotional-support contexts and crisis-related situations. Nevertheless, their cross-lingual abilities in these circumstances remain underexplored. Existing benchmarks emphasize multilingual performance but rarely examine crisis-related empathy and cultural grounding in low-to-mid-resource languages. We introduce SPLIT, a 500-prompt benchmark designed to evaluate LLM consistency in generating emotionally grounded responses across five categories: Stress, Panic, Loneliness, Internal Displacement, and Tension. We evaluate three technically diverse LLMs across three dimensions: Empathetic Accuracy, Linguistic Naturalness, and Contextual & Cul...
| Authors | Anna Chorna |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 2 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 2 July 2026 |
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