S01¶


Research	R0027 — Multilingual prompt engineering challenges
Run	2026-03-26
Query	Q001
Search	S01

WebSearch — Academic research on multilingual prompt engineering effectiveness and cross-language LLM performance

Summary¶

Field	Value
Source/Database	WebSearch
Query terms	"multilingual prompt engineering effectiveness research LLM non-English languages comparison 2024 2025"
Filters	None
Results returned	10
Results selected	5
Results rejected	5

Selected Results¶

Result	Title	URL	Rationale
S01-R01	Multilingual Prompt Engineering in Large Language Models: A Survey Across NLP Tasks	https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11665	Comprehensive survey of 36 papers covering 39 prompting techniques across 250 languages — directly addresses the query
S01-R02	Beyond English: The Impact of Prompt Translation Strategies across Languages and Tasks	https://arxiv.org/html/2502.09331v1	Systematic evaluation of prompt translation strategies across 35 languages with quantified performance data
S01-R03	Not All Languages Are Created Equal in LLMs: Cross-Lingual-Thought Prompting	https://openreview.net/forum?id=E4ebDehO3O	Introduces XLT prompting method with 10+ point improvements; foundational work on cross-lingual prompting
S01-R04	Prompt engineering for low-resource languages	https://portkey.ai/blog/prompt-engineering-for-low-resource-languages/	Practical techniques for low-resource language prompting with quantified results
S01-R05	Evaluation of open and closed-source LLMs for low-resource language with zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949719124000724	Peer-reviewed evaluation of prompting strategies for low-resource languages

Rejected Results¶

Result	Title	URL	Rationale
S01-R06	Papers - Prompt Engineering Guide	https://www.promptingguide.ai/papers	Aggregator page, not primary research
S01-R07	Prompt Engineering and the Effectiveness of Large Language Models in Enhancing Human Productivity	https://arxiv.org/html/2507.18638v2	Focuses on productivity not multilingual effectiveness
S01-R08	Promptomatix: An Automatic Prompt Optimization	https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.14241	Prompt optimization tool, not multilingual comparison
S01-R09	arxiv.org duplicate of S01-R01	https://arxiv.org/html/2505.11665v1	Duplicate of R01 in different format
S01-R10	Not All Languages Are Created Equal (duplicate listing)	https://openreview.net/forum?id=E4ebDehO3O&noteId=OgctsH4sJl	Duplicate of R03 with different anchor

Notes¶

Strong results for this search. The survey paper (R01) provides comprehensive coverage of the field. The prompt translation study (R02) provides the most directly relevant quantified comparison data.