@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-atomiccheck,
    title = "{A}tomic{C}heck: Learning Structured Reasoning for Fact Verification via Protocol-Guided Reinforcement Learning",
    author = "Zhang, Xingquan  and
      Chen, Jianghao  and
      Zhao, Yang  and
      Jian, Pu  and
      Gao, Haoran  and
      Meng, Fanyu  and
      Feng, Junlan  and
      Zong, Chengqing",
    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.184/",
    pages = "4092--4117",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-439-2"
}