CIBuzzBench: A Benchmark for Cross-Lingual Understanding of Chinese Internet Buzzwords
Chinese social media has generated a vast and continually evolving lexicon of internet buzzwords whose meanings are often non-literal and deeply rooted in local cultural and pragmatic contexts. Existing research has primarily focused on interpreting these buzzwords within Chinese, leaving largely unexplored whether LLMs can transfer such culturally grounded knowledge across languages and accurately convey the intended meanings in English. This cross-lingual capability is also critical for safety, as harmful expressions may obscure their offensive content through culture-specific homophony, euphemism, irony, or coded language. In this paper, we investigate the ability of advanced LLMs to u...
| Authors | Yifan Wang, Junyu Lu, Qifan Wang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 18 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 18 September 2026 |
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