@inproceedings{gupta-etal-2026-anchored,
    title = "Anchored Turns: A Length-Driven Gradient in Chain-of-Thought Causal Necessity in Sharded Arithmetic Conversations",
    author = "Gupta, Dhruv  and
      Majhi, Vasudev  and
      Challa, Jagat Sesh  and
      Mandal, Murari  and
      Kumar, Dhruv",
    editor = "Zhang, Yue  and
      Xu, Ruifeng  and
      Purwarianti, Ayu  and
      Rong, Tong  and
      Suzuki, Jun",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the {A}sia-Pacific Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Hengqin, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.117/",
    pages = "2536--2558",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-439-2"
}